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 Vol. 078 Issue 005 (May 1 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Joining forces
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Editor’s Note Ruth Conniff Joining Forces Get ready, friends, I have some really big news: I am thrilled to announce that The Progressive is joining forces with the Center for Media and...
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No Comment
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No Comment old Gripe about Public Ed Republican state representative Andrew Brenner of Ohio wrote on March 3 that “public education in America is socialism.” To defend his claim, he quoted the...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Durst Disappoints on christie I was disappointed in Will Durst’s essay (“Christie, the Great White Whale”) in the March issue. What was ostensibly about New Jersey Governor...
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Brown v. Board Sixty Years Later
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Conniff, Ruth
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Comment Brown v. Board Sixty Years Later On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court struck down the “separate but equal” doctrine, fundamentally changing the life of our nation. The Brown v....
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On the Line
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Bottari, Mary; Thorn, Friday
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On the Line Just One Cent More The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Ohio Fair Food led a colorful march to Wendy’s corporate headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, on March 9 to urge the fast food giant...
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calls Obama out on World War I
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Rothschild, Matthew
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How I See It Obama Whitewashes World War I President Obama went to Flanders Field in Belgium in March to pay homage to those who lost their lives in World War I. But rather than use the occasion...
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Show Me the Money
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Graves, Lisa; Fischer, Brendan
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Show Me the Money Meet the Multimillionaire Squeezing Missouri’s Schools :heir sinister push to distort our democracy. But you may not have heard of Rex Sinquefield. Unlike the Koch Brothers, who...
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Michelle Rhee Can't Clean Up Her Mess
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Pelto, Jonathan
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Illustration by Sari Williams Michelle Rhee Can’t Clean Up Her Mess Michelle Rhee is the patron saint of the corporate education reform industry. Earlier this year, she tweeted: “Hey Twitter!...
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Corporate Tax Breaks Drive Student Debt
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Bybee, Roger
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Corporate Tax Breaks Drive Student Debt Tuition for students at public universities has more than doubled since 1987, leading to a crushing burden of student debt. During the same period, the...
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How Disability Activism Changed Our Lives
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Ervin, Mike
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FIRST PERSON SINGULAR How Disability Activism Changed Our Lives red, white, and blue Chicago Transit Authority bus eases to a stop on the corner. The doors fling open. The people huddled under...
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George Lakoff
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Conniff, Ruth
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George Lakoff George Lakoff is the nation’s leading expert on linguistic “framing” in politics. The author of Dont Think ofan Elephant! The Political Mind, and Whose Freedom? he advises Democrats...
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Obama's fifty shades of cool
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Durst, Will
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Obama’s Fifty Shades of Cool It was more amusing than piano-playing kittens in mittens to see President Obama plug the Affordable Care Act on Zach Galifianakis’s Internet comedy show. Not a public...
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Coach Pop's surprising Politics
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Zirin, Dave
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Coach Pop’s Surprising Politics Amidst the storms of the NBA playoffs, in the highly combustible Western Conference there is one team that year in and year out is able to maintain a stunning...
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Poem
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Aguero, Kathleen
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Poem You Did it begin with the sky holding back its rain like a fist stopping just short of your face, the slight rush of air on your jaw? You’d rather a thunderhead’s anvil stalking as you...
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Hidden history of slavery
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Gray, Kevin Alexander
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Books Hidden History of Slavery The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World By Greg Grandin Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. 360pages. $30. “Direct slavery...
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Cartoon
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Murphy, Ian
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Ian Murphy is the editor of The Beast, based in Buffalo, New...
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Tax the churners
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Hightower, Jim
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Tax the Churners Have you heard about high frequency trading? Get ready to be dazzled! High frequency trading means sweeping, purely speculative financial transactions that have been made possible...
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