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IssueVol. 063 Issue 001 (January 1 1999)
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Paid articleNinety Years of Stubborn Sounds
Rothschild, Matthew
Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Ninety Years of Stubborn Sounds This issue marks the ninetieth anniversary of The Progressive magazine. On January 9, 1909, Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr....
Paid articleHONEST LIVING
Kroninger, Stephen
HONEST LIVING Stephen...
Paid articleCOMMENT
Comment The Return of Big Oil Robert M. La Follette St. dedicated his life to championing the public interest over private greed. Among his greatest foes were the monopolies that controlled...
Paid articleThe Doomsday Strategy
Lens, Sidney
The Doomsday Strategy By Sidney Lens The decision-makers understand how frightful a nuclear war would be—they understand it much better than the rest of us do. But they are motivated by...
Paid articlePortrait of the Founder, Fighting Bob La Follette
NICHOLS, JOHN
Portrait of the Founder, Fighting Bob La Follette By John Nichols On March 25,1921, at the age of sixty-five, Robert M. La Follette Sr. took the greatest risk of his long political career. Four...
Paid articleThe Right of the Citizen to Oppose War and the Right of Congress to Shape the War Policy
Follette, Robert M. La Sr.
The Right of the Citizen to Oppose War and the Right of Congress to Shape the War Policy By Robert M. La Follette Sr. In these days whenever an American citizen presumes to question the...
Paid articleCredit for Suffrage
Follette, Belle Case La
Credit for Suffrage By Belle Case La Follette One great historic measure is to be recorded to the credit of this first session of the Sixty-sixth Congress. I do not refer to the League of Nations...
Paid articleTOMORROW'S NEWS TONIGHT
Brodner, Steve
TOMORROW’S NEWS TONIGHT Steve...
Paid articleEugene V. Debs and the Idea of Socialism
Zinn, Howard
Eugene V. Debs and the Idea of Socialism By Howard Zinn We are always in need of radicals who are also lovable, and so we would do well to remember Eugene Victor Debs. Ninety years ago, at the...
Paid articleLet Me In On the Kill
Mayer, Milton
Let Me In On the Kill By Milton Mayer Dear Allied Control Council: I see by the papers that you are going to hang the Nazi War Criminals unless, after communing with the God of Love, you decide...
Paid articleA Lesson Joe McCarthy Taught Me
Obey, David R.
A Lesson Joe McCarthy Taught Me By David R. Obey I am a Democrat today because of Joe McCarthy. I grew up in a Republican family and participated in my first political campaign as a junior high...
Paid articleErwin Knoll and the H-Bomb Case
Day, Samuel H. Jr.
The Progressive 90 th Anniversary (1909-1999) Erwin Knoll and the H-Bomb Case By Samuel H. Day Jr. I encountered Erwin Knoll for the first time twenty-five years ago in the form of a signature...
Paid articleNot a Just War, just a War
Knoll, Erwin
Not a Just War, Just a War By Erwin Knoll I was bom in Austria, and at the age of six I watched jackbooted Nazi troops march into Vienna. (Millions of Austrians cheered.) I was fortunate enough to...
Paid articlePlunderers in Paradise
Meyer, Ernest L.
Plunderers in Paradise By Ernest L. Meyer It’s always bound to happen like that. You are relaxing in a chair on the lawn, weary after a session of chopping down underbrush with a weedcutter none...
Paid articleFair-Weather Friends of the First Amendment
Hentoff, Nat
Fair-Weather Friends of the First Amendment By Nat Hentoff Of all the Supreme Court justices, William O. Douglas was the most passionate and unequivocal defender of the First Amendment. In 1951,...
Paid articleFreedom's Most Effective Weapon
Rubin, Morris
Freedom’s Most Effective Weapon By Morris Rubin This issue of The Progressive is devoted entirely to presenting a documented report of the public record of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Our...
Paid articleA Father's Story
Clinton, Kate
A Fathers Story By Kate Clinton As often as my schedule and my left ankle will allow, I make my way down to Riverside Park near where I live in New York City to slog (slow jog) around and around...
Paid articleO, California!
Jordan, June
O, California! By June Jordan Along with just about two times as many eligible voters as any other state, I live in California. Crystals, gurus, and tofu burgers aside, California is home to the...
Paid articleWe Are Not Just Toying With Nature
Nelson, Gaylord
We Are Not Just Toying With Nature By Gaylord Nelson Thirty-two years ago in 1966, a thirteen-year-old seventh-grader introduced me to an assembly of his Marshall Junior High School in Janesville,...
Paid articleConserving Farm-Raised Children
Berry, Wendell
Conserving Farm-Raised Children BY WENDELL BERRY If we want a decent food economy and a decent rural landscape, we have got to find the ways to prepare and encourage our farm children to grow up...
Paid articleTaking on the Special Interests
Feingold, Russ
Taking On the Special Interests By Russ Feingold A portrait of Robert M. La Follette Sr. hangs in the U.S. Capitol, positioned like a sentinel at the entrance to the Senate chamber where he...
Paid articleWe Cannot Buy Golden Opportunities With Tin-Cup Budgets
Dauster, Paul Wellstone and Bill
We Cannot Buy Golden Opportunities With Tin-Cup Budgets By Paul Wellstone And Bill Dauster From the beginning of this century, the progressive movement sought a better society and better...
Paid articleThe Burning Truth in the South
King, Martin Luther Jr.
The Burning Truth in the South By Martin Luther King Jr. An electrifying movement of Negro students has shattered the placid surfaces of campuses and communities across the South. Though...
Paid articleWas It Good for You?
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Was It Good for You? By Barbara Ehrenreich Over the last ninety years of this magazine’s existence, many thousands of people whose ideas were generally in tune with it have marched, rallied,...
Paid articleThe Peril of Money in Politics
Borah, William E.
The Peril of Money in Politics BY WILLIAM E. BORAH Money has come to be the moving power in American politics— Some years ago, politicians got into the habit of seeking contributions from men of...
Paid articleFree Market Fraud
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Free Market Fraud By John Kenneth Galbraith This excellent month I’m called upon for two celebrations—one for the distinguished career of Robert Heil-broner, the most interesting, innovative,...
Paid articleOvercoming the Oligarchy
NADER, RALPH
Overcoming the Oligarchy By Ralph Nader The struggle for consumer justice is, in many ways, the most comprehensive of economic reform drives. If the government does not enforce adequately the...
Paid articleUse Versus Profit
Sinclair, Upton
Use Versus Profit By Upton Sinclair I happened to be listening over the radio last week to what I thought was a concert of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. Half way through the concert came a...
Paid articleA Pint of Whiskey and Five Cigars
Bly, Robert
Poem Robert Bly A Pint of Whiskey and Five Cigars l. If we go back, if we walk into the old darkness, We will find Washington brooding under the long bridges, Jefferson weeping, and the cries...
Paid articleTammy Baldwin
Conniff, Ruth
The Progressive Interview Tammy Baldwin By Ruth Conniff In November, Representative Tammy Baldwin (Democrat of Wisconsin from the Second Congressional District) became the first woman Wisconsin...
Paid articleA Letter to My Nephew
Baldwin, James
A Letter to My Nephew By James Baldwin This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for the...
Paid articleThe Reaction of Moral Instruction Upon Social Reform
Addams, Jane
The Reaction of Moral Instruction Upon Social Reform BY JANE ADDAMS Educators, moralists, clergymen, publicists, all of us forget how very early we are in the experiments of founding a first...
Paid articleHappy Anniversary!
Ivins, Molly
The Progressive 90th Anniversary (1909-1999) Happy Anniversary! BY MOLLY IVINS Happy anniversary, Progressive! Let’s hallelujah the country! Let’s shoot out the lights, paint the town and the...
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