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 Vol. 058 Issue 008 (August 1 1994)
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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 Free to Shut Up Abuse inflicted on the nearly one million Americans who are serving time in Federal or state penal institutions is a recurrent theme in The Progressive; see,...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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LETTERS to the Editor Who Lost Iraq? Zachary Karabell's "Who Lost Iraq?" review of Alan Friedman's Spider's Web and Robert Kaplan's The Arabists (Books, July issue) seems somewhat at odds with...
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COMMENT
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Comment the Progressive Who Killed Health Reform? Perhaps it's presumptuous to declare health-care reform dead before the body is even cold—when there is, in fact, still a chance, technically...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Kill 'em with Kindness Associated Press dispatch datelined Seattle: "A death-row inmate who weighs more than 400 pounds is too heavy to be hanged, his lawyer said. Todd said a hanging...
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ON THE LINE
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On The Line Shame of Pilgrim's Pride Mount Vernon, Texas For years, Dr. Louis Arrondo heard horror stories from his patients about working conditions at the local Pilgrim's Pride plant—the...
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PUNDIT WATCH
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Douglas, Susan
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PUNDIT WATCH Susan Douglas Blame It on Battered Women I was going to write about health care, about the demonization of "single-payer" as socialized medicine that would force rationing and a...
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WHO'S ON FIRST:
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Hentoff, Nat
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WHO'S ON first: 'Nat Hentoff Assaulted by the Talmud With the rising number of sexual-harassment charges brought against professors on various campuses, a lawyer I know in Los Angeles has been...
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BIG BAD WELFARE
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Conniff, Ruth
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BIG BAD WELFARE BY RUTH CONNIFF Over a free lunch, a group of experts gathered at a right-wing think tank this spring to talk about cutting off aid to the poor. The mood in the gracious,...
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IN DEFENSE OF TEENAGED MOTHERS
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Males, Mike
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ON DEFENSE OF TEENAGED MOTHERS BY MIKE MALES At the Crittenton Center for Young Women near downtown Los Angeles, seventeen-year-old LaSalla Jackson sets down her tiny infant and shows the...
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CLASS NOTES
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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CLASS NOTES Adolph Reed Jr. Pimping Poverty, Then and Now On May 20, we saw the creation of a new avatar of welfare fraud, a black woman in New York City accused of receiving $450,000 in public...
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HIROSHIMA DAY
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Mitchell, Greg
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HIROSHIMA DAY BY GREG MITCHELL America is in a commemorative mood. The recent D-Day ceremonies captured the attention of the entire nation. Soon we will mark the fiftieth anniversary of many...
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TWO HIROSHIMAS
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Day, Samuel H. Jr.
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TWO HIROSHIMAS BY SAMUEL H. DAY JR. On a low hill in Hiroshima, the skeletal remnants of a twisted but still graceful dome commemorate the moment when, forty-nine years ago this August, a force of...
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BUFFALOED
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LUEDERS, BILL
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BUFFALOED Casino Cowboys take Indians for a ride BY BILL LUEDERS In 1987, when Lewis Taylor was first elected to the St. Croix Tribal Council, he had a clear goal: "to bring this tribe out of...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW ALLEN GINSBERG
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Rothschild, Matthew
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Allen Ginsberg 'i'm banned from the main marketplace of ideas in my own country.' BY MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD I arrived at Allen Ginsberg's apartment on the lower east side...
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JOURNAL ENTRY
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McClure, Laura
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JOURNAL ENTRY Laura McClure Thinking Ergonomics It was 3:20 a.m. and something very strange was happening for the third night in a row. My arm was missing. No, I realized, coming out of a...
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BOOKS
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Bowen, Wally
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BOOKS Radio Wars TELECOMMUNICATIONS, MASS MEDIA, AND DEMOCRACY: The Battle for Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 by Robert McChesney Oxford University Press. 270 pp. $14.95. by Wally...
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SMALL FAVORS
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Ivins, Molly
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SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Sympathy for the Prez My favorite moment in the O.J. Simpson saga was when the chaplain of the United States Senate prayed for comfort for Simpson, saying, "Whether he is...
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