Selections from the March 1, 2015 issue

COVER/Heather Digby Parton
GOP health plan: ‘People could die, that’s OK’

EDITORIAL
Derail Trans-Pacific Pact; Good news at FCC

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Constitutional elitism

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
One person’s weed is another’s salad

DISPATCHES
Resistance to Medicaid expansion claims Baton Rouge ER;
Kochs back attack on Medicaid;
Employed white Southerners most at risk in O’care challenge;
GOP health plan — same old same old;
Who would trust Repubs with economy again?;
Half of America is still broke;
Obama readies veto pen;
Stein mulls another Green prez race;
Pols start lining up for 2016;
Kochs already have raised $249M for political takeover;
Rauner attacks Illinois unions;
Oil workers strike expands:
Tennessee welfare drug tests find 37 users ...

BOB BURNETT
Republicans try to bully US into attacking Iran

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
A recovery for some

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
A Valentine’s Day gift of health

SAM URETSKY
Vaccine myths still persist

WAYNE O’LEARY
On the road to corporate health care

JOHN BUELL
Alternatives to market myths

NORMAN SOLOMON
CIA mission: Destroy the whistleblower

MARK ANDERSON
Deluded farm groups aid trade trap

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Black islanders, mainlanders

ROB PATTERSON
Movie houses need to lure us off the couch

JOHN YOUNG
You will not refuse the tar sands mafia

DONALD KAUL
Telling the truth about religious violence

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