Topic: the poor

(AP/Reuters/David Manning/Charles Dharapak/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)

The GOP's reverse Robin Hoods

Josh Mound
(Reuters/Dave Kaup)

Kansas keeps on bleeding

Simon Maloy
(Reuters/Kevin Lamarque/Joshua Roberts)

GOP: Screw the poor!

Simon Maloy
Paul Ryan (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP's Poverty Poll Problem

Simon Maloy
Eric Cantor, Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Kevin Lamarque/AP/Paul Sancya)

A party beyond reform

Simon Maloy
(AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

America's big education myth

Matt Bruenig
(AP/Shiho Fukada/Andrew Medichini/photo collage by Salon)

1 percent's religious fraud

Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
(AP/Cliff Owen)

Walker's little-known scandal

Joan Walsh
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-239818p1.html'>tommaso lizzul</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Post office: America's savior?

David Dayen

It’s still LBJ's America

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg

Robert Reich
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

"Take me seriously, again!"

Alex Pareene
(AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

4 secret taxes on the poor

Leah A. Plunkett
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-180313p1.html'>Brian A Jackson</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The right's health care scam

Adam Gaffney
John Boehner and Eric Cantor (AP)

Their idiocy will save lives

Blake Zeff
Rep. Stephen Fincher (Rep. Stephen Fincher, Facebook)

Candace Chellew-Hodge - Religion Dispatches