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 Vol. 076 Issue 010 (October 1 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Farewell to Two Elders
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor's Note Farewell to Two Elders Matthew Rothschild This summer, we lost two powerful voices on the left: Alexander Cockburn and Gore Vidal. Of the two, Cockburn had a greater influence on...
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No Comment
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No Comment Republican Humor Jim Roddey, the GOP chair of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, was trying to be funny, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "I was in this parking lot and there was a man...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Third Party, Reconsidered In "The Third-Party Dilemma," Matthew Rothschild quite thoroughly deals with both sides of the question whether it is worthwhile to vote for...
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Paul Ryan?!?
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Comment Paul Ryan?!? Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate hit us here in Wisconsin especially hard. We'd barely had time to lick our wounds from the defeat that Scott Walker...
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On the Line
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On the Line Protests Against Anaheim Police Shootings Protests raged for several days in Anaheim, California, after police fatally shot two Latino men over one weekend in July. Police shot and...
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Sherrod Brown Beats Back Big Money
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Dinovella, Elizabeth
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Sherrod Brown Beats Back Big Money By Elizabeth DiNovella On a hot July Sunday afternoon, more than 100 people show up for a canvas kickoff event at the Montgomery County Democratic Party...
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The Founders Versus the Funders
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Lessig, Lawrence
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The Founders Versus the Funders By Lawrence Lessig Illustration by Jon Krause Editor's Note: Lawrence Lessig testified on July 24 before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the...
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Meet the 26 Billionaires Buying Our Democracy
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Pal, Amitabh
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Meet the 26 Billionaires Buying Our Democracy By Amitabh Pal Illustration by Zachary Pullen SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS noted on July 25 that twenty-six billionaires had donated more than $61 million...
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Tent City, USA
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Kalet, Hank
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Tent City, USA By Hank Kalet Illustration by Dushan Milic It is a cool spring morning in Lakewood, New Jersey. The sun is out, but it is dark and wet in the woods where a small city of tents and...
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Hiding Osama Bin Laden
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Najmi, Samina
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FIRST PERSON SINGULAR Homeless After 9/11 by Samina Najmi Mama," says my eleven-year-old daughter, maya, one evening in May last year. "Some kids in my class asked me if my family had helped to...
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José Antonio Vargas
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Chang, Jeff
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW José Antonio Vargas by Jeff Chang José Antonio Vargas has had a good couple of months. In June, he helped bring the immigration debate back into the national spotlight...
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In Black and White
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Smyth, Donald
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Poem In Black and White In Black and White A black coed. A white graduate. A city: Washington, D.C. Nineteen Fifties. Eisenhower. Cold War. Brown vs. Board of Education. Nouns like...
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Celebrate Clemente
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Celebrate Clemente Dave Zirin In sports, we are very fond of celebrating anniversaries. In baseball, where history is treated with the care of a museum curator, even the most...
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The End of Science
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged The End of Science Kate Clinton My little brother, Jim, once won a blue ribbon at a summer science fair. He played a pretaped screech of the opening of our old refrigerator door,...
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The War on the Middle Class
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Conniff, Ruth
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Books The War on the Middle Class The Betrayal of the American Dream by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Public Affairs. 320pages. $26.99. By Ruth Conniff Gratifying as it is to listen to Joe...
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Texas Cruz Control
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Hightower, Jim
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Vox Populist Texas Cruz Control Jim Hightower If you thought that rightwing políticos couldn't get any goofier, take a peek at Texas on Cruz control. Ted Cruz is America's latest tea party...
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