Selections from the May 15, 2012 issue

COVER/Joan Walsh
‘Populist’ Obama makes centrists nervous 

EDITORIAL
War spreads to public education

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Kids need to learn about Big Ag

DISPATCHES
‘News’ reports aside, Social Security is strong;
Top Super PAC donors support Republicans;
Momentum grows to overturn ‘Citizens’;
Vatican seeks to rein in nuns,
Bishop likens Obama to Hitler, Stalin;
Bishops don’t like GOP budget cuts either;
‘Cap and trade’ states grow faster while cutting pollution;
Ron Paul backers take Iowa GOP leadership;
Fla. Gov. Scott unaware of rape crisis;
Nader to get trial in lawsuit vs. Dems;
ALEC ends gun, voter suppression task force;
Labor rips Colombia trade deal;
White guys vs. Obama;
Muslims exempt from First Amendment ...

DON ROLLINS
Castro claims another exile in Miami

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Crazy talk from ‘Motor City Madman’

MARK ENGLER
Tax day doesn’t belong to the Tea Party 

BOB BURNETT
Obama vs. Romney: class warfare

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas

Digestive rumba

WAYNE O’LEARY
Fannie & Freddie: parable of privatization

SAM URETSKY
What the wealthy dream of doing

JOHN BUELL
The next crisis?

HEATHER SEGGEL
Cook’s tour of our food industry

ROB PATTERSON
Marketing rules at music fest

POPULIST PICKS
‘Luck’ runs out

and more ...