1920s
|
1930s
|
1940s
|
1950s
|
1960s
|
1970s
|
1980s
|
1980
|
1981
|
1982
|
1983
|
1984
|
1985
|
1986
|
1987
|
January
|
February
|
March
|
April
|
May
|
June
|
July
|
Vol. 051 Issue 007 (July 1 1987)
|
••Cover Page••
|
••Contents••
|
MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
|
|
|
|
MEMO from the Editor Lean and Hungry Perceptive readers—and we're sure all of The Progressive's readers are perceptive—will have noticed that last month's issue was a bit thinner than usual. So...
|
LETTERS
|
|
|
|
LETTERS The Hunger Artists As a Unitarian, I write to register my disagreement with the views on fasting of our president, William F. Schulz ("The Hunger Artists," Reflections, June issue). The...
|
COMMENT
|
|
|
|
Comment the Progressive The Emperor's New Clothes If it's true that there's beauty in simplicity, then we've got ourselves one gorgeous President. Not since Richard Nixon's White House days has...
|
NO COMMENT
|
|
|
|
No Comment Perfectly Clear From an American Bar Association letter: "The Tort and Insurance Law Journal is a publication of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association,...
|
DATELINES
|
|
Price, Jennifer; Huebner, Albert L.; Neuburger, Jerrold J.; Podesta, Anthony T.; Davidson, Osha
|
|
DATE LINES Dryland Farmers Say No to Water DOLORES, COLORADO R.R. "Junior" Hollen has decided to fight to save his farm, a thousand acres of beans and alfalfa in a high, dry valley of southwestern...
|
MEDIA
|
|
Manoff, Robert Karl
|
|
MEDIA Robert Karl Manoff Quick-Fix News MacNeil/Lehrer plays it safe We're redefining the news," Robert MacNeil once told a reporter, back in the days when The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, a nightly...
|
JACKSON'S CHALLENGE
|
|
Muwakkil, Salim
|
|
Jackson's Challenge Building a radical base BY SALIM MUWAKKIL When Jesse Louis Jackson came to the tiny farm town of Greenfield, Iowa, to open his "exploratory" Presidential campaign office,...
|
WEED KILLER
|
|
Kimery, Anthony L.
|
|
There's never been a herbicide like this before.' —The Monsanto Company, 1980 WEED KILLER BY ANTHONY L. KIMERY Eduardo Neaves was a healthy and happy twelve-year-old, the son of migrant farm...
|
THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW NOAM CHOMSKY
|
|
Peck, Jim
|
|
THE PROGRESSIVE Interview Noam Chomsky An American dissident BY JIM PECK Noam Chomsky, Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is widely regarded...
|
VICTORY ON CANNERY ROW
|
|
Erlich, Reese
|
|
VICTORY ON CANNERY ROW BY REESE ERLICH Socorro Murillo, a single mother with six children, lived for eighteen monthson$55a week. She and 1,100 other workers were on strike against Watson ville...
|
SMALL FAVORS
|
|
Ivins, Molly
|
|
SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Profiteers and Loons All over this great nation, your public servants are at work, restricting the release of turkeys, making it a felony to disturb bats, and...
|
BOOKS
|
|
Davidon, Ann Morrissett
|
|
BOOKS Deadly Divisive Paths WOMEN AND WAR by Jean Bethke Elshtain Basic Books. 272 pp. $19.95. by Ann Morrissett Davidon Are women by nature more pacific, less bellicose, than men? That is the...
|
THE LAST WORD
|
|
Wisenberg, S.L.
|
|
THE LAST WORD S.L. Wisenberg Vacation at Club Dead My friend Angie and I had come to Central America to look for truth, the way others (we thought) went there to tramp through Mayan ruins and...
|
August
|
September
|
October
|
November
|
December
|
1988
|
1989
|
1990s
|
2000s
|
2010s
|
2020s
|
|