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IssueVol. 073 Issue 012 (December 1 2009)
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Paid articleEDITOR'S NOTE
Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Thirties Redux It’s been quite a year. I’d been looking forward to it for the last two decades, and now it’s just about over. My anticipation had swirled around...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
No Comment Gunning for the Job Dean Allen, a GOP candidate for public office in South Carolina, held a “machine gun social” as his first campaign fundraiser, reports NBC. “Well, I wanted a place...
Paid articleLETTERS
Letters to the Editor Peace Activists Today, the latest issue of The Progressive arrived, and its color photographs of activists included a page showing people who have lost limbs and lives to...
Paid articleCOMMENT
Comment Beyond the Greed Economy Our current economy works for those at the very top. It doesn’t work well for the rest of us—or for the environment. We must refashion it. The rich may have...
Paid articleON THE LINE
On the Line October 24 marked an International Day for Climate Action organized by the 350.org global grassroots campaign. At more than 5,200 events around the world, people in 181 countries...
Paid articleSPARE ME THE DESPAIR
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Spare Me the Despair Flip Side Barbara Ehrenreich Feminism made women miserable. This, anyway, seems to be the most popular takeaway from “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” a recent...
Paid articleBACK TO THE MILL
Rodríguez, Luis J.
Back to the Mill Writing to America Luis J. Rodríguez Tony Prince is a San Francisco Bay Area lawyer who took the bar ten years ago, starting a new career in his mid-forties. Entering the field of...
Paid articleTHE NOBEL'S FEEBLE GESTURE
Zinn, Howard
The Nobel’s Feeble Gesture It Seems to Me Howard Zinn Idon’t like to annoy my readers. Who else can I count on? There are not so many that I can afford to antagonize some of them. But sometimes it...
Paid articleTHE COST OF DISPLACEMENT
Berry, Wendell
The Cost of Displacement By Wendell Berry Illustration by Lisa Haney OUR PRESENT ECONOMIC failures involve moral issues of the gravest sort. An essentially immoral system of economy-as-finance,...
Paid articleFENDING OFF FORECLOSURE
Gray, Kevin Alexander
Fending Off Foreclosure By Kevin Alexander Gray Illustration by Barry Bruner Igrew up with the idea that owning your own home was important. That there should always be a place your kids could...
Paid articleMICHIGAN IN FOCUS
Jimwest
Michigan in Focus Text and Photographs by Jim West SHORTLY AFTER I MOVED to Detroit in 1972, an auto worker friend told me about a run-in he’d had with a supervisor while working at Chrysler’s old...
Paid articleBIDEN'S ECONOMIST
Lydersen, Kari
Bidens Economist An Alternative Voice Tries to Get Heard in the White House By Kari Lydersen Illustration by Rama Hughes WHEN JARED BERNSTEIN became Vice President Joe Biden’s chief economic...
Paid articleTHESE PEOPLE HAVE NO SHAME
Sanders, Bernie
These People Have No Shame By Senator Bernie Sanders Illustration by Dongyun Lee TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES in a momentous and pivotal moment in American history. We are facing the biggest economic...
Paid articleFIRING IMMIGRANTS
Bacon, David
Firing Immigrants By David Bacon Illustration by Kelly Mudge Ana Contreras would have been a competitor for the national tae - kwon do championship team this year. She’s fourteen. For six years,...
Paid articleTHE 1930S-FLASHBACK
THE30s FLASHBACK Which Shall Rule—Wealth or Man? May 31, 1930, editorial Is the government of this country gradually being reduced to an oligarchy of wealth? Are the high places of government to...
Paid articlePOEM
Connolly, J. M.
Poem Memory It’s what we can’t see that gets us. You recall your mother crying into pieces of jewelry she holds in her hands, telling you to stay inside, that you can’t go out and play— and...
Paid articleELIZABETH WARREN
Conniff, Ruth
Elizabeth Warren THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Ruth Conniff Elizabeth Warren, the government’s watchdog on the massive bank bailout, is a hero to critics of the financial industry. A professor at...
Paid articleLETTING MY GRUMPY GUARD DOWN
Clinton, Kate
Letting My Grumpy Guard Down Unplugged Kate Clinton The morning the Norwegians announced that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, I thought of my niece. When she was five years old, she...
Paid articleNFL SACKS RUSH
Zirin, Dave
NFL Sacks Rush Edge of Sports Dave Zirin "P ush Limbaugh R came within a hair’ s breadth of owning an NFL team. In a league that is 67 percent African American, there was almost an owner...
Paid articleOUR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2009
Clinton, Kate
OUR FAVOURITE BOOKS By Kate Clinton In the cold early months of 2009, to save money on home heating, we burned all our old anti-Bush books. No more bitter cold for us. We were warm and toasty into...
Paid articleEXCUSE ME?
Hightower, Jim
Excuse Me? Vox Populist Jim Hightower Five days before taking the oath of office, Barack Obama called on the millions of people who had actively campaigned for him to be the engine for real change...
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE INDEX
Lukas, Ina
The Progressive Index A list of authors and subjects, followed by title, month of issue, and page number. Fo example, “Apr 19” refers to page 19 of the April issue. Compiled by Ina...
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