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 Vol. 076 Issue 007 (July 1 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Obama Takes a Stand You’ve got to hand it to President Obama: His declaration of marriage equality was historic and gutsy. He didn’t just issue a statement. He...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Romney or Revolution Ponch McPhee, editor of The Constitutional Conservatives, the newsletter of the Republican Party of Greene County, Virginia, and self-proclaimed “Whitehouse...
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LETTERS
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Letters to the Editor A Nobel for Warren Elizabeth Warren should be nominated for a Nobel Prize for trying to accomplish something (“On the Trail with Elizabeth Warren,” by Abby Scher, May issue)....
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COMMENT
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Comment Twelve More Years in Afghanistan When President Obama addressed the nation on May 1 from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, he said, “The tide has turned” and promised to “end the war.” He...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Still ACTing U P, 25 Years Later New York City The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power (ACT UP) marked its twenty-fifth anniversary with a direct action demanding a tax on Wall Street...
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SOCIAL DARWINISM RETURNS
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Conniff, Ruth
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Social Darwinism Returns Political Eye Ruth Conniff This year marks the fiftieth anniversary I of Michael HarringI ton’s great and influenk- m Itial book, The Other W^'J^M...
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THE 9 MOST LOATHSOME LOBBYISTS
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Murphy, Ian
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The 9 Most Loathsome Lobbyists By Ian Murphy Illustration by Zachary Pullen Tis the bleak post-Citizens United season in America—money equals speech, and corporations, super PACs, and an...
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ARIZONA INSURGENT
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Lydersen, Kari
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Arizona Insurgent By Kari Lydersen Illustration by Kelly Mudge The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee counts the First District in Arizona on its “Red-to-Blue” list. Anticipating a tough...
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THE LEFT'S MOMENT IN GREECE
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Lapavitsas, Costas
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The Left’s Moment in Greece By Costas Lapavitsas Illustration by Alex Nabaum The Greek election in May has given a tremendous boost to the fight against austerity in Europe. Progressive political...
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SAGE OF SOMALIA
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Bayoumi, Moustafa
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Sage of Somalia By Moustafa Bayoumi Illustration by Andrea Wicklund WHEN HE WAS ONLY twelve years old, Nurud-din Farah—the celebrated novelist and sage of Somalia— executed his first act of...
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A LETTER TO JUNE JORDAN
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Walker, Alice
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A Letter to June Jordan First Person Singular by Alice Walker Dear June, Who can believe you have been gone from us for ten years? It seems impossible. When I close my eyes I see you standing...
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THOMAS FRANK
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Dinovella, Elizabeth
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Thomas Frank THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Elizabeth DiNovella Cultural critic Thomas Frank loves a paradox. Why has the worst economic crisis in generations led to a resurrection of free market...
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2012 VEEPSTAKES
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Durst, Will
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2012 Veepstakes Off the Map Will Durst Since Governor Romney sewed up the Republican nomination tighter than one of Chris Christie’s old - suits, the only remaining election drama before...
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LONDON CALLING
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Zirin, Dave
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London Calling Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Soon I will be flying to London with 1968 Olympian John Carlos. Officially, we are going there on a tour publicizing his memoir about his life of sports...
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POEM
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Díaz, José Hernández
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Poem An Ode to Los Jornaleros They rise at dawn And cross themselves La Virgen knows She knows it well They sit and wait On crooked curbs For dirty work They sit and wait And when work comes...
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BOOKS
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Reviews, Tom Hayden
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Books Giving LBJ a Pass The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson By Robert Caro Knopf. 736 pages. $35. By Tom Hayden Robert Caro’s multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson has been...
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AGENT ORANGE CORN
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Hightower, Jim
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Agent Orange Corn Vox Populist Jim Hightower What are these phantasmagoric money machines that they call “private-equity firms”? They’re much in the news these days because a fellow who was a...
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