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 Vol. 077 Issue 005 (May 1 2013)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rearview Mirror Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild On the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked, “How could so many false assertions be taken as fact” in the lead-up...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Don’t Ask Your Counselor The Tennessee state senate in March considered a bill that would allow graduate student counselors to decline to offer services to clients with “goals,...
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LETTERS
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Letters to the Editor Obama’s Drones I very much liked the exposé of drone warfare in “On the Drone Trail” (Mudassar Shah, February issue). The Obama Administration’s policy, cloaked in...
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COMMENT TAKING ON THE MONEY POWER
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Comment Taking on the Money Power March 12, 2013, may go down in our history as a momentous day. For it was on this date that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Representative Ted Deutch of...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Farm Workers Expose Publix Disgrace Lakeland, Florida More than 1,000 demonstrators went on a “March for Rights, Respect, and Fair Food” to the headquarters of the Publix...
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AT LAST, A HUMANE BUDGET
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Conniff, Ruth
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At Last, a Humane Budget Political Eye Ruth Conniff There are so many reasons the Paul Ryan budget and the rightwing approach to economics make no sense. To start with, the budget deficit...
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ANTI-ABORTION FORCES ON THE MARCH
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Scher, Abby
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Anti-Abortion Forces on the March By Abby Scher Illustration by Zina Saunders IT CAME AS A SURPRISE TO many when the Arkansas legislature in March enacted a near-ban on abortion starting in...
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LITTLE BAGHDAD, CALIFORNIA
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Gupta, Arun
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Little Baghdad, California By Arun Gupta Illustration by Dushan Milic NABEEL USED TO WORK FOR the Americans in Iraq. He was a security team leader for the Research Triangle Institute, a U.S....
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MAKE YOUR TOWN A DRONE-FREE ZONE
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Musgrave, Shawn
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Make Your Town a Drone-Free Zone By Shawn Musgrave Illustration by Christophe Vorlet ON FEBRUARY 4 IN A THREEtwo vote, the city council of Charlottesville, Virginia, became the first...
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GUIDE TO AVOIDING EXTRALEGAL DRONE ASSASSINTION
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Murphy, Ian
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TheProgressive Guide to Avoiding Extralegal Drone Assassintion By Ian Murphy 1) Stay clear of danger zones Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, the entire Middle East...
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WHY WORKING AT HOME SUITS ME FINE
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Capellaro, Catherine
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Why Working at Home Suits Me Fine First Person Singular by Catherine Capellaro MEMO TO MARISSA MAYER @YAHOO: Your new telecommuting ban is a big disappointment to working moms like me. As you...
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"I'M VERY COMFORTABLE AS A HYBRIDIZED MONGREL"
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Pal, Amitabh
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“I’m Very Comfortable as a Hybridized Mongrel” Wisdom from the Author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist By Amitabh Pal Illustration by Barry Bruner I’VE BEEN WAITING TO INTERVIEW writer Mohsin...
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ADAM MCKAY
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Sirota, David
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Adam McKay THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by David Sirota Politics and comedy in America have always needed each other, since it is often difficult to discern whether what you are seeing, reading,...
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TACKLING DEPRESSION
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Zirin, Dave
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Tackling Depression Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Thank you, Herschel Walker. The retired NFL pro bowler and former Heisman trophy winner said something that needed to be said. More than 3,500...
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POEM
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Klepfisz, Irena
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Poem Instructions of the dying elder to his successor concerning monuments, memorials, museums, and other architecturally uplifting structures* These laws are hacked: on rocks in comets’...
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WHO WANTS TO WRITE A MEMOIR?
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Clinton, Kate
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Who Wants to Write a Memoir? Unplugged Kate Clinton Abook editor once challenged me to write a memoir. My first reaction was, “Ugh.” Also my second. I thought I had used my inside...
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THE BATTLE OF MILWAUKEE
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Miner, Barbara J.
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Books The Battle of Milwaukee Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City By Barbara J. Miner The New Press. 305 pages. $27.95. By...
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THE JOBLESS AND THE PURPLE SQUIRREL
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Hightower, Jim
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The Jobless and the Purple Squirrel Vox Populist Jim Hightower It’s a sign,” exclaims a February Associated Press story, a sign that our economy is “healing.” “It signals that things are...
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