Selections from the November 15, 2014 issue

COVER/Richard Eskow
Populism: A light against Republican darkness

EDITORIAL
Public needs facts; nurses need union

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Liberal seminaries and their identity crisis

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Food prize should honor humans

DISPATCHES
Key questions for Senate control;
Postal Service proposes more service cuts;
Republicans have nothing to fear from Ebola;
CNN is most trusted news source;
Rush Limbaugh is least trusted;
CNN not trusted by everybody;
'Dark money' may shatter records;
Karma in Alabama corruption bust;
Follow the money on Ebola care deficiency ...

MARK ANDERSON
Texas turnpike rebellion against tollways

SETH SANDRONSKY
Moody’s credibility deficit

WENONAH HAUTER
Komen, fracking and pink bits

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Housing: A common-sense prescription

SAM URETSKY
Budget cuts costly in health preparedness

WAYNE O’LEARY
The pension grinches

JOHN BUELL
The other war’s casualties: Drug war’s victims

N. GUNASEKARAN
BRICS might shatter economic hegemony

NORMAN SOLOMON
Risen’s new book: Exposing ‘war on terror’

BOB BURNETT
It’s still the economy, stupid!

ROB PATTERSON
Tangled up in Dylan

POPULIST PICKS
Vatican secrets; Jimmy Fallon; Fever Pitch

JASON STANFORD
A hardest-working congressman in N.D.

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