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 Vol. 073 Issue 001 (January 1 2009)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 100 Candles
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note 100 Candles On January 9, 1909, Senator Robert M. La Follette launched La Follettes Weekly Magazine. On the very first page of that very first issue, La Follette laid out the...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Zirin Wrong on Stadium Subsidies Although a San Francisco Giants fan, I’ve been to many games in Yankee Stadium over the years, and I found Dave Zirin’s “House That Greed...
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The Great Recession
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Comment The Great Recession The economists were the second to last ones to figure out we’re in a recession. The last one was George Bush himself, but he doesn’t care. He’s been phoning in his job...
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No Comment
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No Comment Prime Example Three former top executives who oversaw subprime losses at the Swiss banking giant UBS said they would forgo $27.7 million in salary and other payments, reports The New...
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Challenging the Mormon Church
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Challenging the Mormon Church As supporters of gay marriage have discovered, it’s no walk in the park to take on the Mormon Church. It backed the anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 in...
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Obama's Centrism Is No Surprise
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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Class Notes Obama’s Centrism Is No Surprise No one should be surprised at the shape of Barack Obama’s cabinet. At the same time that Obama was projecting “hope” and “change” on the campaign...
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On the Line
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On the Line Say No to Torture On November 15 and 16, protesters marched across the street from the main gate of Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona. Fort Huachuca is the home of the U.S. Army...
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How to Push Obama
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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How to Push Obama On November 4, the American people by a popular majority of more than eight million votes selected as their new President a Democratic contender who had been attacked by his...
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Finding Our Collective Voice
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Conniff, Ruth
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Finding Our Collective Voice It could be a very short honeymoon for progressives who supported Barack Obama, with all the Clinton Administration officials crowding into the cabinet. We’re now...
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Poking the Racist Beehive
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Berlet, Chip
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Poking the Racist Beehive JUST BEFORE HE WAS PUMMELED to the ground and beaten on election night, his attackers shouted “Obama,” reports Ali Kamara, a teenage Muslim and black immigrant from...
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Growing Food and Justice
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Miner, Barbara
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Growing Food and Justice The most common description of will allen is “urban farmer.” But the description doesn’t do Allen justice. It’s like describing Woody Guthrie as “1930s folksinger.” Or...
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Bill McKibben
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Silver, Diane
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Bill McKibben A little more than two years ago, bestselling author Bill McKibben’s life was filled with canoe trips, mountaineering, writing, and teaching. The author of...
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The Intimacy of Dentistry
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Ajay, Stephen
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Poem The Intimacy of Dentistry Some of us have sex without noticing, like the way some dentists can work a drill with such speed, with the wish to be done with it—to say little of the poor mounted...
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Economy in Detox
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Economy in Detox My nephew Paul played trumpet in his high school band and during the Christmas season they performed at nursing homes in their community. They played holiday favorites...
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Contraception Is No Cure-All
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Shah, Sonia
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Books Contraception Is No Cure-All More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want by Robert Engelman Island Press. 320pages. $24.95. In More, Worldwatch Institute’s Robert Engelman wades deep...
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2008 Index
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Lukas, Ina
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The Progressive Index VOLUME 72, 2008 A list of authors and subjects, followed by title, month of issue, and page number. For example, “Apr 19” refers to page 19 of the April issue. A Aaron,...
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Bankers Gone Wild
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Hightower, Jim
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The Lowdown Bankers Gone Wild They came. They saw. They ran away. November’s big global finance summit session was a far cry from the “veni, vidi, vici” of Julius Caesar. Rather than conquering...
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