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IssueVol. 073 Issue 004 (April 1 2009)
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Paid article100 Years Old
Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild 100 Years Old Magazines are fragile plants— magazines of dissent especially so. Only a few manage not to die from neglect or mishandling or poor transplanting. The...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1909
1909 La Follette's Weekly Magazine Fighting Words from Fighting Bob The battle is just on. It is young yet. It will be the longest and hardest ever fought for Democracy. In other lands, the...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1910
1910 The Strike of the Shirtwaist Girls By Elizabeth Dutcher April 23, 1910 The masters tried intimidation. Police protection was summoned, reinforced by well-paid private detectives, and...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1911
1911 Punish the Real Offenders By Robert M. La Follette May 27, 1911 The Standard Oil Company is guilty of violating the antitrust law. It is ordered by the United States Supreme Court to...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1912
1912 If Things Were Reversed What would be the state of the masculine mind if the voting women should present to them only the following half dozen objections which are unhappily so familiar to...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1913
1913 The Consolidation of Banking and Big Business The country seems not to understand how completely banking institutions in the principal money centers have become bound up with the control of...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1914
1914 Let Her Vote! Ishall ask no political rights for myself that I am not willing to grant to my wife. —William Jennings Bryan, August 8, 1914 Ensuring the Right to Organize Without...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1915
1915 Rockefeller's "Union" So Mr. Rockefeller has formed a union of his employees at his Colorado Fuel and Iron company and perhaps imagines that he has solved the problem of just relations...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1916
19l6 End Child Labor It is distressing that progress should be so slow in setting free the children of the nation from cruel exploitation in industry; but that there is progress is comforting....
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1917
1917 The Right of the Citizen to Oppose War and the Right of Congress to Shape the War Policy By Robert M. La Follette June 1917 Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy....
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1918
I9l8 War Profiteers How the people must laugh to scorn a Congress that deals thus tenderly with war profits while dealing with such severity the common human clay to put against the gun! To the...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1919
1919 Sign or Starve These jugglers with the world's destiny at Versailles have for six months locked themselves away from the peoples they are supposed to represent. They now seek to commit the...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1920
I920 Women Vote Susan B. Anthony's prediction is verified. The women of the United States may vote in 1920. On August 18, the state legislature of Tennessee ratified the constitutional amendment...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1921
1921 Sacco and Vanzetti Unjustly Convicted Certain it is that every officer of the law, from the lowest to the highest, was convinced of the guilt of the accused before the trial opened, and an...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1922
1922 Helen Keller on Solidarity How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together! We rise or fall together, we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained together. ...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1923
1923 "We Will Not Endure a King" By Robert M. La Follette June 1923 The human body is not bought and sold upon the auction block, but monopoly is absolute master of every product necessary to...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1924
1924 Gandhi's New Epoch By Isabel B. La Follette March 1924 Gandhi's great contribution of nonviolence force marks a new epoch. We may not agree with many of his views, but is the world going to...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1925
1925 The Magazine Will Go On By Belle Case La Follette July 1925 La Follettes Magazine will go on. It will continue to carry out the plans and purposes of its great editor. He loved his Magazine....
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1926
1926 Is Free Speech Un-American? By Robert La Follette Jr. March 1926 Let them go out, or at least keep silent and refrain from holding up to American children false, decadent ideals," says the...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1927
1927 Armed Intervention in Nicaragua By Robert La Follette Jr. January 1927 Without authority from Congress, American Marines have been landed in Nicaragua. This armed invasion of a friendly...
Paid articleLa Follette's Weekly Magazine - 1928
1928 The Wire-Tapping Evil By Robert La Follette Jr. July 1928 The five-to-four opinion of the Supreme Court last month ruling that federal courts may receive evidence secured by wire-tapping...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1929
1929 THE PROGRESSIVE with which is combine LA FOLLETTE'S MAGAZINE Founded by Robert M. La Follette New Weekly Launched; Company with $25,000 Capital Succeeds La Follette's December 7, 1929,...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1930
I930 Women and the Law: Unjust Discrimination By Susan Brandeis February 9, 1930 Women lawyers throughout the land are still discriminated against. Upon my arrival in New York, I sought...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1931
1931 Belle Case La Follette Dies News story August 22, 1931 Mrs. Belle Case La Follette, 72, mother of Wisconsin's governor and senior U.S. senator, and widow of the late U.S. Senator Robert M....
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1932
1932 Who Is It That Wants War? By Bertrand Russell September 24, 1932 The next great war will, in all likelihood, bring the end of civilization. Aeroplanes and poison gas have made the attack...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1933
1933 Persecuting the German Jews By Ernest L. Meyer April 8, 1933 The present Hitler drive against Judah is but an isolated incident in a story of nineteen centuries of persecution. Generation...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1934
1934 Save Capitalism? Then Pay the Price By Robert La Follette Jr. February 17, 1934 We have reached the point where we must ascertain whether those who give lip service to our present system...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1935
1935 Labor Demands Shorter Work Week News story February 9, 1935 Organized labor has begun an aggressive fight to obtain enactment in Congress of a compulsory thirty-hour week. John L. Lewis,...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1936
1936 Violent Impulses By Upton Sinclair December 19, 1936 Most of the time during our campaign to end poverty in California, I managed to keep my temper. They told a lot of lies about me, and I...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1937
1937 An End to War By Eleanor Roosevelt April 17, 1937 The changes which have come to the world make it necessary, if we wish our civilization to survive, to put an end to war at once. We cannot...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1938
1938 A Woman for President? By Isabel B. La Follette May 14, 1938 In most communities, the man or woman who leads is the one who produces, who translates his or her ideals into action. How often...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1939
1939 Dramatic Story of Marian Anderson By Mary La Follette May 6, 1939 On this memorable Easter Sunday, history was made as racial prejudice was forgotten. White dignitaries were seated next to...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1940
I940 New, Militant Progressive Takes the Field By Robert La Follette Jr. and Philip La Follette June 29,1940 Since 1928, control of The Progressive, with which La Fol-lette's Magazine was...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1941
1941 America, Wake Up! By Frank Lloyd Wright June 21,1941 The democratic people must know, at heart, that going to war is the natural basis of Empire. Going to war is a lot easier than going to...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1942
1942 Sell-Out to Profiteers By Robert La Follette Jr. March 14, 1942 The Treasury is guilty of a pusillanimous surrender in the fight for an effective and drastic excess-profit tax. Advocates of...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1943
1943 America Must Show the World By Justice William O. Douglas October 11, 1943 If America continues to be a country worth following, she will be followed. If our standard of life and our respect...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1944
1944 The Dramatic Battle for American Land By Abe Fortas, Undersecretary of the Interior October9,1944 In recent years, there has been a great increase in the concentration of agricultural...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1945
1945 Plunderers in Paradise By Ernest L. Meyer August 20, 1945 President Truman has announced that a single atomic bomb has been dumped on a Japanese city of 340,000, probably wiping it and most...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1946
1946 Is This Freedom of Conscience? By Norman Thomas January 14, 1946 As the year of "total" victory in a war for "liberation" drew to its end, there were in American prisons some 3,200 men...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1947
1947 The End of The Progressive By Morris Rubin October 6, 1947 This is the last issue of the present Progressive. If a new Progressive— improved, enlarged, and revitalized—is to take its place,...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1948
1948 Resurrection By Morris Rubin January 1948 The resumption of publication of The Progressive seems to us little short of a modern miracle. It was only three months ago that we published what...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1949
1949 Hiroshima Was Unnecessary By Stuart Chase September 1949 The Foreign Morale Analysis Division, composed of some thirty anthropologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, and psychologists,...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1950
I950 The Moral Alternative to Chaos By Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey April 1950 Our responsibility is to tell the peoples of the world that we, temporarily the mightiest of nations, are ready to join...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1951
1951 More Powerful Than the "A-Bomb" By Ralph Bunche October 1951 There are some Americans today who would have us conduct our foreign affairs on the juvenile basis of drawing lines, issuing...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1952
1952 Frightened America By Justice William O. Douglas April 1952 The Communist threat inside the country has been magnified and exalted far beyond its realities. Irresponsible talk by...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1953
1953 A New Voice for America By Justice William O. Douglas Today fear eats away at the hearts of men, until even old neighbors suspect one another. Alarms are sounded, anxieties are traded upon...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1954
1954 Freedom's Most Effective Weapon By Morris Rubin April 1954 Joe McCarthy has struck repeatedly at the letter and the spirit of our Bill of Rights by using methods of intolerance and...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1955
1955 Intruder in the Dust By Murray Kempton November 1955 Moses Wright went out to the muddy Tallahatchie and was shown a body lying face down in a boat with its head beaten in. A sheriff's...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1956
1956 The House Un-American Committee By Morris Rubin September 1956 The House Committee on Un-American Activities has demonstrated in recent months that its own conduct has few parallels for...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1957
1957 Unlimited Horizons for Free Expression By Justice William O. Douglas December 1957 The First Amendment does not say that there is freedom of expression provided the talk is not "dangerous."...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1958
1958 A World Safe for Living By General Omar N. Bradley January 1958 We are now speeding inexorably toward a day when even the ingenuity of our scientists may be unable to save us from the...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1959
1959 America's Broken Mainspring By Adlai Stevenson March 1959 Anation glued to the television screen is not simply at a loss before the iron pioneers of the new collective society; it isn't even...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1960
I960 The Burning Truth in the South By Martin Luther King Jr. May 1960 An electrifying movement of Negro students has shattered the placid surface of campuses and communities across the South....
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1961
I961 The Riders By Murray Kempton July 1961 The notion that the freedom riders were troublemakers seemed to be Robert Kennedy's, too. He did his best at a distance to protect them; he moved as...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1962
1962 The Case Against Civil Defense By Sidney Lens February 1962 Civil defense creates a treacherous sense of security. More than this, it magnifies the prospect of nuclear war because it makes...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1963
1963 Eleanor Roosevelt: Eulogy at a Memorial By Adlai Stevenson January 1963 She lived 78 years, most of the time in tireless activity as if she knew that only a frail fragment of the things...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1964
1964 Humpty Dumpty in Vietnam By Sen. Wayne Morse August 1964 We are pursuing neither law nor peace in Southeast Asia. We are not even pursuing freedom. We are maintaining a military...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1965
I965 HUAC vs. the Constitution By Rep. Don Edwards April 1965 The House Committee on Un-American Activities never should have been created by this body as a standing committee. Punishment of an...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1966
1966 The Profit in Highway Slaughter By Ralph Nader May 1966 Under present conditions there is little economic incentive for the automaker to concern himself seriously with automobile casualties...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1967
I967 "We Burned Every Hut" By a GI's Dad, from the letters-to-the-editor page of the Akron, Ohio, Beacon-Journal July 1967 Here are portions of a letter I have received from my son, who is now...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1968
1968 The Next Time I See Prague By Milton Mayer November 1968 There is nothing much you can do to a people schooled in adversity. The Czechs surrender and surrender and surrender—and destroy the...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1969
1969 Still Separate, Still Unequal By Erwin Knoll September 1969 Achild born on May 17, 1954, the date of the Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board of Education ruling, should be entering the...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1970
1970 Women's Lib on Capitol Hill By Judith Nies McFadden December 1970 The day was August 26, 1970. It was not quite a business-as-usual day on Capitol Hill. It was the fiftieth anniversary of...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1971
1971 April 15: If You Want My Lai, Buy It By Milton Mayer April 1971 Young men are a dime a dozen. What the Army wants is a dime to buy a dozen young men with. Either give them the dime or don't...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1972
1972 Stop the Sneering By Saul Alinsky January 1972 Many of our young radicals are growing out of the former rhetorical fantasies where they confused revelation with revolution. In their search...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1973
1973 "America can accomplish far more by the power of example than by the power of bombing."—Sen. George McGovern November How to Stop the Snooping By Sen. Gaylord Nelson August 1973 Over the...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1974
1974 The Crisis and the Remedy By Sen. George McGovern April 1974 If Mr. Nixon and his subordinates are not now called to account, there can be no confidence either in the Presidency or the...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1975
1975 Partners: Labor and the CIA By Sidney Lens February 1975 The AFL-CIO has been an indispensable instrument in the U.S. government's pursuit of the Cold War. Time after time in the last...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1976
1976 The Doomsday Strategy By Sidney Lens February 1976 The nuclear menace is not apparent to the naked eye: America's policymakers cloak its self-propelling nature—and their intent—in defensive...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1977
1977 The Russians Are Coming—Again By Sen. George McGovern May 1977 The arms establishment has lately been promoting a new round of near-hysteria over the relative power of the United States and...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1978
1978 Reefer Madness By Ellen Goodman October 1978 We live in a country where any twenty-one-year-old can drink himself or herself to death, but where a terminal cancer patient can't legally get...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1979
1979 Born Secret: The Story Behind the H-Bomb Article We're Not Allowed to Print By Erwin Knoll May 1979 On Monday, March 26, 1979, a federal judge did what no federal judge had ever done...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1980
I980 Is Exxon Worth Dying For? By Michael T. Klare July 1980 Overcoming the energy crisis, President Carter once proclaimed, "is the moral equivalent of war." His reference was to U.S. efforts...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1981
198l Why We Seized the Hammer By Philip Berrigan May 1981 The struggle to prevent nuclear war is, in an altogether unprecedented way, a struggle for spirit, heart, and mind. The intention to use...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1982
1982 Rumblings on the Islamic Right By Stephen Zunes June 1982 Dateline Gaza Add another piece to the complex mosaic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the rise of rightwing Muslim...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1983
1983 What's a Woman's Work Worth? By Richard Moore and Elizabeth Marsis December 1983 Pay equity is one of the most radical issues of our time. It can unite the ideology of middle-class feminists...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1984
1984 Behind the Death Squads By Allan Nairn May 1984 Early in the 1960s, during the Kennedy Administration, agents of the U.S. government in El Salvador set up two official security organizations...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1985
I985 Lay of the Land By Pat Aufderheide January 1985 Four years ago, farmland prices soared, and so did lending based on sky-high interest rates. Farmers found themselves rich on paper, even if...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1986
1986 "The way our ruling class keeps out of sight is one of the greatest stunts in the political history of any country." —Gore Vidal, in an interview by Claudia Dreifus, September 1986 How to...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1987
I987 Playing with Poison By Kathy Dobie and Amy Goodman February 1987 For thirteen years, Jose Jimenez was employed at the Pymm factory in Brooklyn, which manufactures clinical mercury...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1988
1988 The Uncovered By Ben Bagdikian September 1988 Iam thankful for much, including a recovering heart. I go to my expensive rehabilitation, and I continue to get the astronomical medical...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1989
1989 An Interview with Susan Sarandon By Claudia Dreifus October 1989 Q: You said a friend's death pushed you to act on AIDS. Susan Sarandon: Yes. An actor died a terrible death, all alone and...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1990
1990 Post-Invasion Pacification By Molly Ivins March 1990 The unfortunate faux pas concerning Manuel Noriega's cocaine stash is entirely understandable. As the U.S. Army explained, it was "in the...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1991
1991 Not a Just War, Just a War By Erwin Knoll June 1991 Violence is a terrible taskmaster: It compels its victims to emulate their oppressors. And what's the point of doing that? All this I've...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1992
1992 Cutting the Lifeline: The Real Welfare Fraud By Ruth Conniff February 1992 All across the country, the poor are getting one message: America has no tolerance for the needy; if the poor are...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1993
1993 A Palestinian Versailles By Edward W. Said December 1993 The fashion show vulgarities of the White House ceremony, the degrading spectacle of Yasir Arafat thanking everyone for the...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1994
1994 The Free Marketeers By Richard Falk January 1994 Bill Clinton took the unprecedented, quite amazing step of promising his help to Republican supporters of NAFTA in electoral campaigns...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1995
1995 Poorhouse Politics By Frances Fox Piven February 1995 For the poor, it's back to the workhouse and orphanage. The press tends to credit Newt Gingrich with this nineteenth century scenario....
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1996
1996 Don't Be Fooled Again By Alexander Cockburn November 1996 Now there's not much point in itemizing the innumerable faults, failures, and "betrayals" of Bill Clinton. (I put the word...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1997
1997 Welfare Profiteers By Ruth Conniff May 1997 Now that the federal government has scrapped the old welfare system, corporations are getting ready to cash in. Arms contractors and other big...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1998
1998 There were those who hated communists, and there were those who hated queers. If you were both a communist and a queer, then you were beyond the pale, by all means." —Harry Hay, in an...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 1999
1999 Who Needs NATO? By Robert Fisk July 1999 How much longer do we have to endure the folly of NATO's war in the Balkans? In its first fifty days, the Atlantic alliance failed in everything it...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2000
2000 A Flash of the Possible By Howard Zinn January 2000 What happened in Seattle showed how apparently powerless people—if they unite in large numbers—can stop the machinery of government and...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2001
2001 The Invisible People By June Jordan March 2001 We have moved from The Invisible Man to The Invisible People. Where is there a record of any major national newspaper or TV channel...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2002
2002 Christian Wahhabists By Barbara Ehrenreich January 2002 In a world that contains Christian Wahhabists like John Ashcroft and Islamic Calvinists like Osama bin Laden, what sense does it make...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2003
2003 "I can't stand watching history roll right over us. It's like they're asking you to bend over, put your head in the sand, and put a flag in your ass." —-Janeane Garofalo, in an interview by...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2004
2004 We Are the Majority By Rep. Bernie Sanders February 2004 It is not acceptable that the wealthiest 1 percent of the population owns more wealth than the bottom 95 percent. That's not...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2005
2005 The Scourge of Nationalism By Howard Zinn June 2005 Is not nationalism—that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder—one of the great evils of our time,...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2006
2006 "Our Job Is Not to Stand Up and Cheer When the President Breaks the Law" By Sen. Russ Feingold on the President's warrantless wiretapping. Delivered on the Senate floor, February 7, 2006 ...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2007
2007 Broken by This War By Stacy Bannerman March 2007 It is the soldiers, and their families, and the people of Iraq that pay the human costs. The tab so far: more than 3,000 dead U.S. Troops,...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2008
2008 The Meaning of Obama's Victory By Matthew Rothschild December 2008 For 400 years, this land has been scarred and marred by racism. At is the blot that would not go away. Out on this day,...
Paid articleThe Progressive - 2009
2009 How to Push Obama By John Nichols January 2009 It is reasonable for progressives to assume that Barack Obama agrees with them on many fundamental issues. He has said as much. It is equally...
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