Selections from the October 15, 2012 issue

COVER/Hall Crowther
This land is your land?

EDITORIAL
Mitt keeps digging

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
‘Obama 2016’: Ominous shadows from right

DISPATCHES
Mitt’s taxes leave questions;
Clinton: tax secrecy 'red flag';
Chinese deals complicate Mitt’s campaign;
Obama moves against Chinese unfair trade practices;
Wheels fall off Romney campaign;
Romney is losing seniors;
Mitt warns Iowans of forced unionization;
Repubs kill vets jobs bill;
Ohio air war could define power of money;
GM corn linked to cancer;
Mitt nears 700 lies;
Scab refs blow calls;
Trans-Pacific trade secrecy protested;
Voters divide over size of government;
Voter suppression laws aim at Hispanic voters;
Quebec students claim victory in tuition revolt;
Romney losing white workers;
Bacon shortage seen ...

DON ROLLINS
Dem’s flawed plan on childhood poverty

BOB BURNETT
Welcome to Romneyland

WENONAH HAUTER
From Dubai to LA, water barons are all the same

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
Amenable mortality: geography a risk for death

SAM URETSKY
Republican contributions to language

WAYNE O’LEARY
The GOP’s declaration of war

JOHN BUELL
Jobs and the honesty deficit

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Discovering Japan

JIM VAN DER POL
Society needs more than entrepreneurs

GENE NICHOL
Race, legacy and affirmative action

ROB PATTERSON
The ‘Kane’ Mutiny

POPULIST PICKS
‘Newsroom,’ ‘Bunheads’ and ‘Election Special’

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