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IssueVol. 077 Issue 012 (January 1 2014)
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Paid articleEDITOR'S NOTE
Conniff, Ruth
Editor’s Note Ruth Conniff Changing the World In this special issue of the magazine, we bring you a treasury of essays by writers, activists, and citizens who are doing their level best to make...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
No Comment Hooked on Health Care Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, on why the Dems were reluctant to negotiate with the GOP before the government shutdown: “President...
Paid articleLETTERS
Letters to the Editor Dogs, Not Guns Gun owner Frank Smyth (“Three Ways to Beat the NRA,” November issue) urges us to organize at the grassroots level against the NRA, but to respect gun...
Paid articleCOMMENT
Conniff, Ruth
Comment Public Banking Is the Answer Co-ops, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture. . . all of these efforts to create a better society run counter to the values of Wall Street. Wall Street...
Paid articleON THE LINE
On the Line Protesters calling for the permanent boycott of genetically modified organisms marched in dozens of countries on six continents on October 12. Critics of the multinational biotech...
Paid articleOPEN SPACE
Williams, Terry Tempest
Open Space Terry Tempest Williams An Open Letter to Major Powell September 13, 2013, fifty years after the last bucket of concrete was poured in the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam,...
Paid articleWHEN GOVERNMENT WAS NEIGHBORLY
Berry, Wendell
When Government Was Neighborly By Wendell Berry Illustration by Matthew Leake BECAUSE I WAS BORN IN THE middle of the Depression of the 1930s, I am a child of the New Deal. Because I was born...
Paid articleHOW I TOOK THE LEAP TO COOPERATIVE LIFE
Kemble, Rebecca
How I Took the Leap to Cooperative Life By Rebecca Kemble Illustration by Nicole Schulman WHEN BILL MOYERS ASKED Wendell Berry in a recent interview what gives him hope in a world where...
Paid articleRESCUING ATLANTIS
Bass, Rick
Rescuing Atlantis By Rick Bass Illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS why I’ve decided to start getting arrested in protests against the world’s largest global warming...
Paid articleTHE BRAVEST WOMAN I KNOW
Kelly, Kathy
The Bravest Woman I Know By Kathy Kelly Illustration by Louisa Bertman CYNTHIA BANAS IS THE BRAVEST woman I know. An eighty-twoyear old librarian from Vernon, New York, she has spent decades...
Paid articleTAKING ABORTIONS HOME
Burke, Julia
Taking Abortions Home By Julia Burke Illustration by Tara Jacoby IT’S CHICAGO IN THE 1960s. A woman and her husband drive at night to a dark corner of the West Side, following the...
Paid articleSISTER CITIES SUCCESS STORY
Dinovella, Elizabeth
Sister Cities Success Story By Elizabeth DiNovella Illustration by Dongyun Lee IT WAS APRIL 1986, IN THEMIDST of El Salvador’s civil war, when Madison, Wisconsin, became a sister city...
Paid articleSANDY'S NURSES
Jaffe, Sarah
Sandy’s Nurses By Sarah Jaffe Illustration by Kevin Somers When Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, the president of the New York State Nurses’ Association, and an emergency room nurse at...
Paid articleA VICTORY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Pelto, Jonathan
A Victory for Public Schools By Jonathan Pelto Illustration by Zela Lobb THIS IS THE REAL-LIFE TRUE story of how a small band of public education advocates, with the help of parents and...
Paid articleHOW TO BUILD A NEW WORLD
Klein, Naomi
How to Build a New World By Naomi Klein Illustration by M.K. Perker SOME OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR with a book I wrote called The Shock Doctrine. It argues that over the past thirty-five years,...
Paid articleVETS TURN TO GARDENING
Webster, Stephen C.
Vets Turn to Gardening By Stephen C. Webster Illustration by Brett Affrunti STEVEN ACHESON SPENT nearly five years on active duty. He saw the Iraq War up close. “We went on over 400 combat...
Paid articleA LETTER TO A YOUNG DOCTOR
Murphy, Dan
A Letter to a Young Doctor By Dan Murphy Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook SO YOU WANT A CAREER IN medicine. You’ve got a lot of options, including all the specialties, primary care, research,...
Paid articleCOMMUNITY ACTIVISTS SAVE THE SEA
HELVARG, DAVID
Community Activists Save the Sea By David Helvarg Illustration by Doug Chayka I’M DIVING THROUGH A MARINE reserve off Catalina Island in Southern California twenty-two miles from Los Angeles....
Paid articlePRACTICING NONVIOLENCE IN SYRIA
Baddorf, Zack
Practicing Nonviolence in Syria By Zack Baddorf Illustration by Daniel Zender THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION started with these simple words: “The people want the regime to fall.” Fifteen...
Paid articleA CEMETERY DESECRATED BY MINING
West Virginians go through life knowing what mountain or hillside we’ll be buried on. A Cemetery Desecrated by Mining Members of the Jarrell family are suing Alpha Natural Resources in Boone...
Paid articleTAWAKKOL KARMAN
Pal, Amitabh
THE PROGRE S S IVE INTERVI EW by Amitabh Pal Tawakkol Karman TAWAKKOL KARMAN IS THE YOUNGEST PERSON ever and the only Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She shared the award in 2011 for...
Paid articlePLAYERS WHO STAND UP
Zirin, Dave
Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Players Who Stand Up One of the most challenging things to explain about the 1960s to young people today is that the most famous and successful athletes happened to...
Paid articleTED CRUZ'S TINFOIL HAT
Durst, Will
Off the Map Will Durst Ted Cruz’s Tinfoil Hat One thing you got to give the rightest side of the Republican Party: They do have the abil ity to maintain focus. Like frozen lasers. Or...
Paid articlePOEM
Cisneros, Sandra
Poem Mrs. Gandhi When Gandhi took his vow of celibacy, did he consult first with Mrs. Gandhi? Or simply take his path gradually and silently? So that she wouldn’t protest? Peacefully? Or...
Paid articleOUR FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2013
By Kate Clinton Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now (Current), by Douglas Rushkoff, cogently explains such afflictions as my “digiphrenia” (drowning in info, but no rash) and my...
Paid articleSHE STANDS UP TO KEYSTONE
Hightower, Jim
Vox Populist Jim Hightower She Stands Up to Keystone Most state and national officials have been as useless as a Jell-O doorstop in blocking the Keystone XL Pipeline. The fix seemed to be in...
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE INDEX
The Progressive Index A list of authors and subjects, followed by title, month of issue, and page number. For example, “Apr 19” refers to page 19 of the April issue. A Abortion Rights: Defending...
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