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 Vol. 077 Issue 010 (October 1 2013)
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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 Ruth Conniff Forward! This is my first issue as editor of The Progressive, and I couldn’t be prouder of what we are doing here. I’m delighted to bring you our cover story by...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Post-Racial, #1 When President Obama visited Phoenix on August 6, his reception got ugly. Some people at an anti-Obama protest outside the Desert Vista High School where he was...
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LETTERS
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Letters to the Editor Yes to Disability Rights Kudos to The Progressive for running Mike Ervin’s review of Susan Nussbaum’s book, Good Kings Bad Kings, in the August issue. Ervin is smart and...
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COMMENT THE BUSH PLAYBOOK
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Comment The Bush Playbook It’s hard to imagine what it’s like for President Obama, constitutional law professor, former community organizer, and the political leader who carried Americans’...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Remembering the March at 50 Tens of thousands of people gathered in the nation’s capital on August 24 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington. Standing...
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HOW I SEE IT
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Rothschild, Matthew
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How I Got Arrested How I See It Matthew Rothschild Iwalked over to the Wisconsin capitol around noon on August 15 to report on the Solidarity Sing-Along. It’s what remains of the mass...
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TO THE POINT
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Fletcher, Bill Jr.
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Bangladesh: Global Company Town To the Point Bill Fletcher Jr. Natural disasters continuously batter Bangladesh: cy clones, famines, and floods. Then there are the unnatural disasters of...
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SAVING OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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Ravitch, Diane
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Saving Our Public Schools By Diane Ravitch Illustration by Caitlin Kuhwald IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE twenty-first century, a bipartisan consensus arose about educational policy in the United...
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KEYSTONE WHISTLEBLOWER: CATASTROPHE AHEAD
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Dermansky, Julie
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Keystone Whistleblower: Catastrophe Ahead By Julie Dermansky Illustration by Taylor Callery EVAN VOKES NEVER GAVE any thought to whistleblowers before realizing he would need to blow a shrill...
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FAREWELL, BUFFALO
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Burke, Julia
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Farewell, Buffalo First Person Singular by Julia Burke “YOU’LL BE BACK,” JOKED MY FRIEND, THE PRESIDENT OF A LOCAL nanobrewery, tipping back his glass. “Five to ten years, when you’ve got kids...
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AT THE COUNTERREVOLUTION IN EGYPT
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Kouddous, Sharif Abdel
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At the Counterrevolution in Egypt By Sharif Abdel Kouddous Illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love THE CORPSES LAY IN NEAT rows on the floor of al-Iman mosque—more than 230 of them, wrapped in...
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NOAM CHOMSKY
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Barsamian, David
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Noam Chomsky THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by David Barsamian Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia on December 7, 1928. Chomsky’s father was a noted Hebrew scholar; his mother was a teacher. Both...
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POEM
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Bass, Ellen
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Poem The story goes that as a boy, the great Polish writer Bruno Schultz fed sugar water to the last houseflies of autumn, giving them strength for the bitter winter. And I read about another...
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OFF THE MAP
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Durst, Will
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Let the Pantsuit Dance Off the Map Will Durst Time to address the burning ques tion sing eing the lips of every red-blooded A meri can: Wha t hap pens to Bryan Cran ston’s porkpie hat...
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NEOCON FOOTBALL FANS
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Zirin, Dave
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Neocon Football Fans Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Adecade ago, during the Bush/Cheney drive toward the war and occupation of Iraq, few cheerleaders shook their pom-poms with more enthusiasm...
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BOOKS
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Lorenzsonn, Erik
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Books Animal Dreams Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America By Jon Mooallem Penguin. 368 pages. $27.95. By Erik...
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MAKING YOU SICK
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Hightower, Jim
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Making You Sick Vox Populist Jim Hightower Here’s something to make you sick: Corporations and their Republican water boys are denying people the paid leave they need to get well. Ill...
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