Selections from the April 1, 2015 issue

COVER/Robert Scheer
Outsourcing intelligence to Silicon Valley

EDITORIAL
Treacherous opposition

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

DON ROLLINS
Juvenile justice: Poverty looks like delinquency

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Mo. asks who are farmers and ranchers?

DISPATCHES
Hillary’s ‘Emailgate’ becomes another far-right buzzword;
Republican president could still gut ACA subsidies;
Nearly 8M could lose health insurance aid;
FCC also allows muni broadband;
Senate opening in Md.;
Bipartisan bill would end marijuana prohibition;
What 'doing something about ISIS' looks like;
Farmily farmers crash agribiz party;
Pope attacks corrupting influence of money in politics ...

JIM GOODMAN
The re-colonization of Africa

ROGER BYBEE
‘Right to work’: Keeping workers down since ’30s

WENONAH HAUTER
Two stories on fracking you probably missed

JOHN YOUNG
The insanity of the death penalty

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Testing in a post-Lake Wobegon world

SAM URETSKY
Unions’ time is coming back

MARK ANDERSON
Canada lawsuit challenges banker rule

WAYNE O’LEARY
Obamacare’s saving grace (maybe)

JOHN BUELL
Climate science and neoliberal agenda

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
War without end

JASON STANFORD
To defeat ISIS, win the peace

BOB BURNETT
Good Obama, bad Obama

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Adolescence and civil disobedience

POPULIST PICKS
‘Mr. Dynamite’; ‘Tin Man’; ‘Going Back Home’

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