Selections from the April 1, 2012 issue

COVER/Steve Kornacki
Rush poisons GOP brand

EDITORIAL
Civil liberties on the frontier

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Climate change strikes home

DISPATCHES p. 5
Current TV adds talkers to morning lineup;
Rush ads suspended;
Super PACs dominate;
Limbaugh's not the only one;
Super PACs dominate, are hated;
Kaptur emerges from showdown with Kucinich;
Work hours point to continued job growth;
Mitt ‘clear favorite’ of lobbyists;
Mitt declines Medicare, embraces vouchers for seniors;
Stuck paying medical bills of woman who sued Obamacare;
Another con talking point falls apart;
Medicare growth slowing;
Feds deny Texas women's health money;
Senate rejects Keystone XL pipeline order;
GOP blocks judge nominees in a snit ...

ROGER BYBEE
Obama weighs ins and outs of ‘insourcing’

HAL CROWTHER
Meaner — and dumber — than rats

JOSEPH B. ATKINS
GOP ‘zombies’ follow ALEC’s script

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Bone marrow transplant and the market

SAM URETSKY
Republicans practice old-time religion

WAYNE O’LEARY
Obamacare meets reality

N. GUNASEKARAN
Arab Spring avoids corporate rule

JOHN BUELL
Colleges run debt peonage business

DON ROLLINS
Evangelicals, Catholics strange bedfellows

ROB PATTERSON
French were right about Jerry Lewis

POPULIST PICKS
Coma ruins Neeson’s week

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