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 Vol. 075 Issue 004 (April 1 2011)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Suddenly, Solidarity I had been waiting a long time for the fight-back. With wages stagnating for 90 percent of Americans over the last three decades, even as the...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment An Unrepentant Republican Bobby Franklin, a Republican state representative from Georgia, told the Marietta Daily Journal that allowing gays to serve openly in the military was the same...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Stephens, Thomas M.; Anderson, Philip; Montgomery, Edith; Woodman, Thad; Krumpotick, June; Ranney, Judy G.; Berling, Richard; Woods, Stephanie
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Letters to the Editor Education Story Gets an F Michael W. Apple asserts that the education policies advocated by President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are not as onerous as...
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COMMENT
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Comment What's at Stake for Workers The signs at the initial rally for workers' rights in Madison, Wisconsin, caught the historic moment. "Welcome to Cairo," said one. "Hosni Walker," said...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Wisconsin Rising People in Wisconsin fought Governor Scott Walker's proposal to strip public employees of their right to collectively bargain by taking to the streets for massive...
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WISCONSIN'S PRAIRIE FIRE
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Conniff, Ruth
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Political Eye Ruth Conniff Wisconsin's Prairie Fire I was in Washington, D.C., when the protests started in Madison. So I got my first reports remotely— from my first-grader and...
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THE MOMENT I BECAME A FEMINIST
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Williams, Terry Tempest
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Open Space Terry Tempest Williams The Moment I Became a Feminist others stand at the kitchen sink pondering something they never tell —Anne Carson Last week, I was a guest at a meeting of...
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THE NEW ASSAULT ON ABORTION RIGHTS
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Valenti, Jessica
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By Jessica Valenti Illustration by Christiane Grauert The New Assault on Abortion Rights IN SOUTH DAKOTA, LEGISLATORS proposed a bill that would make it legal to kill abortion providers. Yes,...
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MY LIFE ON DEATH ROW
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Rideau, Wilbert
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By Wilbert Rideau Illustration by Sako Shahinian My Life on Death Row Nothing in your previous life prepares you for living on death row. You're like a head of cabbage in a garden: planted,...
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SUSPENSION TRAP
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Sussman, Anna Louie
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By Anna Louie Sussman Illustration by Koren Shadmi Suspension Trap IT WAS CHILLY IN BROOKLYN on November 4, with rain on the way, so Stephen Trenchfield's mom insisted he wear his heavy jacket...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DAVID SEDARIS
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Kozlowski, Karl
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Carl Kozlowski David Sedaris David Sedaris has become one of America's top literary humorists at a time when the country is sorely in need of some laughter. Since...
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CHINA'S UNDERGROUND HISTORIAN
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Awehali, Brian
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By Brian Awehali Illustration by Caitlin Kuhwald China's Underground Historian Almost none of the students in his hometown of Chengdu knows Liao Yiwu's name, though he is one of China's most...
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POEM
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Wagoner, David
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Poem On Being of One Persuasion Beware of a man with one book. —old Spanish proverb He'll tell you he has the answers even before you've begun to imagine questions. He'll say with a sincerity as...
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SUE EVERYONE!
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Durst, Will
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Off the Map Will Durst Sue Everyone! It doesn't matter which side of the budget battleground you stick your rhetorical bayonet in, one thing we can all agree on, is . . . our government is broke....
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WOODSON LEADS THE PACK
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Woodson Leads the Pack There is a proud tradition in this country of athletes using their platform to say something about the greater good. Those who pine for the days of...
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BOOKS
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Pal, Amitabh
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Books Free Market Fallacies 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism By Ha-Joon Chang Bloomsbury Press. 286pages. $25. By Amitabh Pal From Thorstein Veblen to John Kenneth Galbraith,...
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SCOTT WALKER, KOCH-HEAD
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Hightower, Jim
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Vox Populist Jim Hightower Scott Walker, Koch-head The multibillion-aire Koch brothers are used to running their nefarious network of political front groups from behind closed doors. For more...
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