Selections from the July 1-15, 2015 issue

COVER/David J. Krajicek
Birth of a prison state

EDITORIAL
Obamacare assassins destroy people’s lives

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Spain makes amends, and so should we

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Support farmers, not agribusiness

DISPATCHES
State GOP leaders thwart O’care;
OT rule change could hike wages;
Walmart sees benefits from higher wages;
Senate map poses challenge for GOP;
Top 50 price-gouging hospitals;
Nebraska gov. wants to kill prisoners anyway;
Republicans attack net neutrality;
Obama readies climate change push;
GOP sens vote to block EPA clean water rule;
Liberals more popular in 2015;
G.W. Bush also makes big bucks from speeches;
Sanders strong in Wis. straw poll;
Senate leader says Obama gets no more appeals judges;
La. Repubs wish they'd neer heard of Grover Norquist ...

EMILY SCHWARTZ GRECO
Faking it while the world burns

B. MOYERS and M. WINSHIP
Turn left on main street

LEO W. GERARD
The trade enforcement failure

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Rich/poor gap; Well/sick gap

SAM URETSKY
Abortion continues to split the nation

WAYNE O’LEARY
A prairie tsunami

JOHN BUELL
How does corporate neoliberalism survive?

JOEL D. JOSEPH
Trade promotion authority is unconstitutional

BOB BURNETT
Iraq: Five points to remember

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN
Philadelphia’s backward looking energy future

GENE NICHOL
Sally Robare and outrageous voter ID laws

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Workers’ self-empowerment

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