Selections from the June 15, 2012 issue

COVER/William Lazonick
When execs abandoned the 99% 

EDITORIAL
Boot the billionaires

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Vote for less worst and hope for the best

DISPATCHES
Cory Booker gets starring role in Romney ad;
Obama smear funder demands baseball stadium subsidy;
Sanders: banks regulate Congress;
Banks bought Tea Party reps;
Sick Americans see health care problems;
GOP govs contradict Romney;
Unemployment rate comparisons;
Judge strikes down indefinite detentions;
Stein half-way to Green nomination;
Chamber to spend $50M on elections;
Who's checking who?
Nuke chief to step down;
Catholic institutions sue birth control rule ... 

DON ROLLINS
Methodists in search of their founder

ALLAN BRAWLEY
Adam Smith would be appalled

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Balancing budgets on backs of the poor

BOB BURNETT
The ‘Show Me the Money’ campaign

JOEL D. JOSEPH
America must protect its solar industry

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Robber barons enter health care

SAM URETSKY
Be careful what you vote for

JOHN BUELL
Inequality and economic crises

WAYNE O’LEARY
The cost of efficiency

SETH SANDRONSKY
Telecoms take hard line in union contracts

Fr. DONNELL KIRCHNER
Catholic vote: Does church favor one party?

ROB PATTERSON
Dreaming of special achievement in awards

POPULIST PICKS
American weed; Sex for sale

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