Selections from the March 15, 2015 issue

COVER/Eric Boehlert
Stewart, Colbert and a diminished liberal voice?

EDITORIAL
Reaping the whirlwind

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

LLEWELLYN HINKES-JONES
The decennial market crash

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Get big, get government subsidies

DISPATCHES
Uninsured rate hits new low in 2014;
O’Care helps 32M get insurance;
Chicago populists help force runoff;
Wyden calls trade hearing ‘premature’;
Repubs slash university spending;
Feingold, Strickland eye Senate races;
Banking could go postal;
Alaska legalizes pot;
Vatican takes on Big Pharma;
Repubs and their stenographers turn 72 days into two full years;
Climate deniers' favorite scientist took money from fossil fuelers;
Sandy Hook was fundraising bonanza for NRA ...

GENE NICHOL
Stepping on necks of farmworkers in N.C.’

BOB BURNETT
Obama grows coattails

DON ROLLINS
Bipartisan sentencing bill a moral victory

ROBERT BOROSAGE
The case for a populist challenger

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Outsource! The pharmaceutical mantra!

SAM URETSKY
In Huckabee’s view, it’s bubbas vs. bubbles

WAYNE O’LEARY
Cautionary tale for our times

JOHN and ELISABETH BUELL
Executions: Theirs and ours

JUAN COLE
Today’s top 7 myths about Daesh/ISIL

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Making media democracy

ROB PATTERSON
Politics makes strange TV shows

POPULIST PICKS
Hellhound; Exodus; Shadows in the Night

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