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Vol. 072 Issue 002 (February 1 2008)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Memories of Iowa
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Memories of Iowa Iowa may seem like a distant memory for you now. But for me, it has lingered a little longer. I took my eighteen-year-old daughter, Katherine, an...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Beholden to the Defense Industry? I read with interest “Hillary’s Defense Dough” by Ruth Conniff (December issue). I readily concur that accepting money from defense...
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The Wrong Side in Pakistan
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Comment The Wrong Side in Pakistan Ti I there’s one segment of the population missing from Washington’s Pakistan policy: the people of Pakistan. From the birth of that country in 1947, U.S....
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No Comment
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No Comment A+ in Marketing The Center for Media and Democracy reports that McDonald’s picked up the cost of printing report-card jackets for the school year in Seminole County, Florida, in...
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Hell Is a Gated Community
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich Hell Is a Gated Community Another utopia seems to be biting the dust. The socialist kibbutzim of Israel have vanished or gone increasingly capitalist, and now the...
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The Spirit of Learning
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Rodríguez, Luis J.
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Writing to America Luis J. Rodriguez The Spirit of Learning Pacoima, in the northeast San Fernando Valley section of L.A., is a poor, mostly Mexican community with a sizable African American...
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Revenge of a Stigma
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Danticat, Edwidge
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Another Country Edwidge Danticat Revenge of a Stigma A recent study on the early path of the AIDS epidemic threatens to stigmatize Haitians and Haitian Americans once again. In late October, a...
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So Much for "Inevitability"
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Conniff, Ruth
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Political Eye Ruth Conniff So Much for "Inevitability" While Barack Obama appeals to young voters’ yearning for a more hopeful vision of America, and John Edwards talks in stirring detail about...
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Anti-war Activist Rocked
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Rothschild, Matthew
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McCarthyism Watch Matthew Rothschild Anti-war Activist Rocked Mark Karol-Chik lives in the small town of St. Helens, Oregon, about thirty miles north of Portland. The day after Kerry lost the...
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On the Line
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On the Line Cut the Red Tape Washington, D.C. ctivists called on the White House to remove the red tape around AIDS prevention and treatment programs on November 30, a day before Stop...
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The Religion Card
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Sacirbey, Omar
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By Omar Sacirbey Illustration by Rob Sussman The Religion Card GOP Candidates Play on Anti-Muslim Sentiment To rally the party faithful, several of the GOP candidates are playing the race card,...
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FEMA's Eviction Notices
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Tisserand, Michael
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By Michael Tisserand Illustration by Shane Harrison FEMA’s Eviction Notices After working her two jobs, Velma Johnson was too tired to watch the news on that last weekend of August 2005. So she...
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Undermining Bolivia
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Dangl, Benjamin
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By Benjamin Dangl Photo by Evan Abramson Undermining Bolivia A thick fence, surveillance cameras, and armed guards protect the U.S. Embassy in La Paz. The embassy is a tall, white building with...
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Impeachment Hearings Now
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Impeachment Hearings Now By Representatives Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, and Robert Wexler of Florida. Illustration by Nicole Schulman On November 7, the House of...
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Amy Goodman
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Dinovella, Elizabeth
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the progressive interview by Elizabeth DiNovella Amy Goodman Amy Goodman is one of the leading journalists of our time. - She is executive producer and host of Democracy Now, a daily,...
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In this metropolis
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Beyer, Tamiko
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Poem In this metropolis The street elongates a tenebrous tongue, spectacle its declared unit: this pre-war one bed— A teenager shoots hoops in the schoolyard, double-crossed by MTV and having...
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A Fitting Journey
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Bouwsma, Julia
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Books A Fitting Journey The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory By Kenny Fries Carroll & Graf. 224pages. $14.95. By Julia Bouwsma The term “memoir” has begun to smell like...
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Electoral Forecast
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst Electoral Forecast The American political process has been called a circus wrapped in a game show covered with poisonous weasel glitter. All right, maybe it hasn’t, but it...
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