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Vol. 054 Issue 012 (December 1 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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MEMO FROM THE EDITOR
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Memo from the Editor Peacemakers Sidney Lens was writing his twenty-third book when his final illness laid him low in the spring of 1986. He believed it was an important project: a history of the...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Readers Comment on Persian Gulf Intervention Iam deeply grateful for The Progressive's editorial, "Bring the Troops Home" (Comment, October issue). It corroborates much of...
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COMMENT
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Comment the Progressive Leash the Dogs of War War doesn't loom. Warmaking looms. And the maker is George Bush. With every passing day, Bush pushes the United States closer to a disastrous war...
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NO COMMENT
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NO Comment Or Just Plain Carelessness News item from The Portland Oregonian: "Repeated searches of a section of the Mount Hood National Forest have failed to locate additional remains of a man...
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REFLECTIONS
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Finkelstein, Norman G.
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REFLECTIONS Norman G. Finkelstein The 'Jewish Question9 In a West Bank Village In the summer of 1989—year two of the Palestinian intifada—\ spent three weeks teaching English at a local school in...
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR
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Jordan, June
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JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Intifada. U.S.A. The girl looks thin. She keeps her eyes on the ground. To either side, Israeli soldiers lounge, post-massacre. She is Palestinian. She cannot be...
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ON THE LINE
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Rosen, Elana Yonah; Steif, William
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ON THE LINE Another Navy for Peace SAN FRANCISCO BA Y On a crisp, clear October Saturday, a man and boy are on the Bay, aboard a 101-foot ketch flying flags and bearing banners with the emblem...
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WHO'S ON FIRST?
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON FIRST? Nat Hentoff A Blow to Freedom of Religion The most widely reported—and most controversial—cases during the Supreme Court's last term were those concerning either parental consent...
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NUKESPEAK
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Mead, Nathaniel; Lee, Ray
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NUKESPEAK BY NATHANIEL MEAD AND RAY LEE Just as America gave birth to nuclear technology in the 1940s, we can lead the world into a new era of safe, reliable, economical, and...
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PREGNANCY POLICE: SENDING WOMEN TO JAIL IS NOT THE ANSWER
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Grabar, Mary
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Pregnancy Police Sending women to jail is not the answer BY MARY GRABAR Jennifer Johnson, an indigent twenty-five-year-old African-American, had the dubious distinction last year of being the...
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IF YOU'RE AN ADDICT IT'S NOW A CRIME TO GIVE BIRTH
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ELSHTAIN, JEAN BETHKE
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Pregnancy Police If you're an addict it's now a crime to give birth BY JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Katherine Jorgensen, head nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Boston City Hospital, tends...
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FLUORIDE'S REVENGE
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Grossman, Daniel
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Fluoride's REVENGE Has this cure, too, become a disease? BY DANIEL GROSSMAN Terry Rich, a Colorado Springs dentist, recently treated Molly, a teen-aged patient, for an ugly brown stain on her...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW GIANCARLO ESPOSITO
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Epstein, Robin
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Giancarlo Esposito 'Being an actor doesn't shield you from having a conscience/ BY ROBIN EPSTEIN Giancarlo Esposito is probably best known for his portrayal of Buggin'...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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Mitchell, Edgar D.
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JOURNAL ENTRY Edgar D. Mitchell An Astronaut Against Star Wars Peace is not the absence of war. Peace begins not when nations are too invincible to be attacked, too bloodied to fight, or too...
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BOOKS
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Mattera, Philip
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BOOKS Those Ornery Meatpackers ON STRIKE AT HORMEL: The Struggle for a Democratic Labor Movement by Hardy Green Temple University Press. 336 pp. $29.95. by Philip Mattera One of the many forms...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins The Texas Solution As if things weren't bad enough at home—the Republican candidate for Texas agriculture commissioner just accused the incumbent of encouraging the use...
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