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Editor’s Note Ruth Conniff Winds of Change It is great fun to bring you this month’s cover story on Wendy Davis by reporter Mary Tuma of the San Antonio Current. Tuma comes to us by way of our new...
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No Comment Song and Dance Officers in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, a wealthy, white suburb of Detroit, have been caught taking and sharing humiliating videos of a black man with disabilities,...
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Comment The Democrats’ Progressive Turn As they often do when the next election approaches, Democratic candidates and party strategists have begun moving to the left, trying to capture some...
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On the Line A Call for Immigration Reform Immigration rights activists staged protests at the Stewart Detention Center in Georgia and in Chicago and Atlanta. For more information, go to the...
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To the Point Bill Fletcher Jr. Should Bernie Run? I first met Bernie Sanders in the late 1980s. He was contemplating a run for Congress and had chosen to take time to study and teach at Harvard’s...
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By Mary Tuma Illustration by Zina Saunders Wendy Davis and the Battle for Texas Texas state senator wendy DAVIS faces an uphill battle in her race for governor. After she stood for nearly...
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By Rebecca Kemble Illustration by Alex Nabaum Walker’s Imperils Mine Wisconsin IN THE YEAR 2000, A SPIRITUAL elder of the Ojibwe tribe in northern Wisconsin warned of massive water pollution and...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Ed Rampell Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates ranks among the great American authors. The New York Times-bestselling fiction writer has been honored with innumerable...
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Poem Who I Am I must confess who I am I’m your neighbor on the cold pavement next door I’m a friend sleeping on your hard walnut floor I’m the stranger walking next to you on the street I’m...
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Unplugged Kate Clinton Trouble in Footballistan Full disclosure: I come from a football family. My dad was able to afford college thanks to a full football scholarship. There my mild-mannered...
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Brazil Is Not for Beginners D» R“ i ed Smith once said, ^“Writing is easy. You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed.” I write this thoroughly...
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Books Walker’s Masterpiece Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge By Scott Walker, with Marc Thiessen Sentinel. 288 pages. $28.95. by Ian Murphy To summarize this book in a...
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Vox Populist Jim Hightower Coke vs. Tap Water Coca-Cola is running a stealth advertising campaign. Stealth? Yes, it’s a nationwide product promotion that’s being run below the public radar. But...
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Vol. 078 Issue 002 (February 1 2014)
Editor's Note
