Selections from the November 15, 2015 issue

Selections from the November 15, 2015 issue

COVER/Heather Digby Parton
Chaos theory of Donald Trump

EDITORIAL
Boehner does his job; Expand Social Security
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

DON ROLLINS
Liberals can’t afford to forget 2014

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Farmers need to hold onto their topsoil

DISPATCHES
Budget deal releases Social Security hostages;
Jeb sees Rubio as threat;
Probe clears IRS in Tea Party reviews;
House votes to reopen Export-Import Bank;
Notorious pill profiteer undercut;
Not just Trump: Latinos down on Bush, Rubio, Cruz, too;
Trump is selective in journos that cover him;
Obama tops Brownback in Kansas popularity
Texas cuts Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood ...

MANUEL PEREZ-ROCHA
Obama’s unholy trade policy
JOHN YOUNG
That voodoo that GOP does so well

JASON STANFORD
Meet GOP’s newest conspiracy, ‘Rangerghazi’ 

BILL SCHER
Trudeau did what FDR couldn’t: win with Keynes

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Inequality in the age of affluence

SAM URETSKY
Star Trek didn’t rely on a congressional vote

WAYNE O’LEARY
The Fed’s great flattening

JOHN BUELL
Campaign finance and the future of democracy

BOB BURNETT
The end of the Republican Party
SETH SANDRONSKY
Uber drivers mount nationwide protest

DONALD KAUL
Oddballs make Hillary’s odds look good

and more ...