Selections from the March 1, 2014 issue

COVER/CJ Werleman
GOP civil war is only going to get uglier

EDITORIAL
Food fight fizzles; Pete Seeger R.I.P.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

RURAL ROUTES/Margot McMillen
Monsanto plows ahead with GMOs

DISPATCHES
GOP blocks Medicaid for 6M;
Thousands will die from Medicaid opt-out;
CBO says: Really, GOP, we didn't say Obamacare would kill 2.5M jobs;
Uninsured rate drops;
Republicans boycott Obama farm bill signing;
'Clean' debt limit bill a win for Obama;
Dems call Boehner’s bluff on immigration;
Battle for Senate shapes up;
Solar jobs growing;
Climate change may hike grocery prices;
Big Oil wants more tax breaks;
Senate Dems talk about killing the filibuster next year;
Telecoms move to stop muni competition;
Food stamp cuts eat Walmart profits;
Conservative assault against early voting;
Massive protest in Raleigh, N.C. ...

CHARLES CULLEN
Letters from the eye of the Snowpocalypse

GRASSROOTS/Hank Kalet
Changing what is possible

JIM VAN DER POL
Entitled vs. totalitarians

BOB BURNETT
Obama comes out fighting

WENONAH HAUTER
Email shows USDA cowering to industry

GENE NICHOL
Poverty and education

HEALTH CARE/Joan Retsinas
‘Lean on me’ — heavily

SAM URETSKY
Admit trickle-down failure

WAYNE O’LEARY
Up the down staircase

JOHN BUELL
‘Free trade’ as the bankers’ Trojan horse

N. GUNASEKARAN
Snowden’s effect: Inspiring whistleblowers

DON ROLLINS
Searching for disappearing protest song

DANNY SCHECHTER
Pete Seeger as media maker and critic

BOOK REVIEW/Seth Sandronsky
Labor struggles in and out of unions

ROB PATTERSON
The content of one’s entertainment

POPULIST PICKS
‘Blue Bloods’; ‘October Sky’; ‘When It Was a Game’

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