Selections from the September 15, 2014 issue

COVER/Paul Rosenberg
White power won’t give in

EDITORIAL
Throw out the oligarchs; Honest numbers

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
John Seigenthaler, why we need more like him

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Dream is deferred a little longer

DISPATCHES
Republicans stop talking about O’care in campaign ads;
Medicaid resistance hurts hospitals;
GOP beats teabaggers—but can they win the Senate?;
Party of Lincoln takes aim at black voters;
McConnell makes big promises to big donors if GOP takes Senate;
Top GOP Senate candidates praise Koch network;
Burger King flees US taxes;
Free Press seeks to block Comcast takeover of Time Warner;
Medical marijuana answers prescription painkiller epidemic;
Texas courts says it's OK for bosses to lie to workers;
Christie loses billions to Wall Street fleecers;
Still waiting for Voting Rights reinstatement ...

E. GRECO and W. COLLINS
Solar power gets hot, hot, hot

ROGER BYBEE
Scott Walker’s offshoring flip-flop

WENONAH HAUTER
Bureau of Land Management’s frackopoly

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Rich-poor newborn gap slowly closing

SAM URETSKY
The end of capitalism and return to feudalism

WAYNE O’LEARY
Corporations without borders

JOHN BUELL
Resisting corporate education

JIM VAN DER POL
Loss of a way of life creates desperation

BILL JOHNSTON
The new people

SETH SANDRONSKY
Cities of opportunity?

JOHN YOUNG
Profitability and social responsibility

ROB PATTERSON
A remarkable Texas woman remembered

POPULIST PICKS
‘Iceberg Slim’; ‘Girls like us’; ‘Billionaire’s vinegar’

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