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 Vol. 078 Issue 007 (July 1 2014)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Look Out. Robber Barons
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EDITOR’S NOTE by RUTH CONNIFF Look Out, Robber Barons Welcome to the brand new, redesigned, and reinvigorated Progressive. I hope you are as excited as I am by our new look, and by the fantastic...
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Eric Cantor's Loss and the Populist Backlash
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COMMENT Eric Cantor’s Loss and the Populist Backlash The surprise defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor by a relatively unknown Tea Party candidate in June shocked the Washington, D.C.,...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Who’s the Ass? Jim Thompson, chairman of the Winnebago County, Illinois, Republican Party chapter, ended one of his newsletters this way: “Media update for the week: saw on the news...
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WE HEAR YOU
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WE HEAR YOU Applause for the Merger Congrats on The Progressive’s merger with the Center for Media and Democracy. May it multiply your effectiveness. And thanks for the excellent articles in your...
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On the Line
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Rowan, Harriet Blair
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ON THE LINE by HARRIET BLAIR ROWAN ALEC Wants to “Stomp Out Local Control” Hundreds of lobbyists and state legislators gathered in downtown Kansas City on May 2 for the American Legislative...
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The Smoking Gun
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THE SMOKING GUN This e-mail delivers marching orders to state legislators who have agreed to introduce a resolution to oppose expanding Medicaid coverage for the working poor at the 2013 ALEC...
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We Know How to Beat Robber Barons
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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We Know How By John Nichols to Beat Robber Barons Americans have been wrestling with robber barons for a very long time. The term was first applied in an American context almost 150 years ago as a...
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Democracy or Oligarchy?
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Sanders, Senator Bernie
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We are at a pivotal moment in American history. By Senator Bernie Sanders Democracy or Oligarchy? We are at a pivotal moment in American history. The major issue of our time is whether the...
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The Koch Cartel: Their Reach, Their Reactionary Agenda, and Their Record
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Graves, Lisa
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The Koch Cartel: Their Reach, Their Reactionary Agenda, and Their Record You’d have to spend $113.4 million a day, every day for an entire year, to spend down the net worth of just one of the...
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The Game Is Rigged
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Warren, Senator Elizabeth
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The Game Is Rigged Deep down, this is a fight about values. By Senator Elizabeth Warren In every fight to build opportunity in this country, in every fight to level the playing field, in every...
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A Select Few
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Bottari, Mary
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A Select Few By Mary Bottari PHOTOS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS The robber barons era of the late nineteenth century and the robber baron era today have much in common. Both are marked by rapacious...
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Voucher School Tour
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Conniff, Ruth
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Voucher School Tour By Ruth Conniff One day in May, toward the end of the school year, Milwaukee grandmothers Gail Hicks and Marva Herndon loaded up Herndon’s RV with a cooler full of water...
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A School Board Under Attack
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Apple, Michael W.; Schirmer, Elena
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A School Board Under Attack By Michael W. Apple and Eleni Schirmer eed Hastings, the billionaire owner of Netflix, made headlines this spring when he announced to the California Charter School...
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I Lost My Seat to the Koch Brothers
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Taube, Jo Ann
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I Lost My Seat to the Koch Brothers By Jo Ann Taube There is a strong correlation between poverty and achievement nationally and in Kenosha. More than half of our students qualify for free or...
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Why Universities Will Divest
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Mckibben, Bill
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Why Universities Will Divest By Bill McKibben Over the last eighteen months, the effort to get colleges and universities to divest themselves of their fossil fuel stock has gained amazing...
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Our Surprise Victory at Stanford
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Provost, Graham
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FIRST PERSON Graham Provost Our Surprise Victory at Stanford s a veteran of the movement to combat climate change, I have been conditioned to expect disappointment. So when, as administration...
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How ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels
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Surgey, Nick
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How ALEC Fronts for Fossil Fuels By Nick Surgey ven as the Environmental Protection Agency finally attempts to limit carbon dioxide pollution from coal plants, it is meeting resistance at the...
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A City Beats Back Chevron
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HELVARG, DAVID
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A City Beats Back Chevron By David Helvarg On August 6, 2012,1 heard Chevron’s alarm sirens in my home just two miles away from the company’s huge refinery complex in Richmond, California. But...
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Matt Taibbi
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Rampell, Ed
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Matt Taibbi By Ed Rampell Author and journalist Matt Taibbi has emerged as one of the most profound critics and chroniclers of what he calls “the age of oligarchical...
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The Next Financial Crisis Will Start Here
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Dayen, Dave
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The Next Financial Crisis Will Start Here By Dave Dayen “When will the next financial crisis happen, and where will it occur?” This trillion-dollar question remains firmly implanted in the minds...
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The Internet Railroad Magnates
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Saldana, Dave
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The Internet Railroad Magnates By Dave Saldana Josh Levy wanted to cut the cord. Tired of paying big money to the cable company every month, he bought a Roku Internet-streaming device and got...
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Four Big Lies About Inequality
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Reich, Robert
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Four Big Lies About Inequality Don’t listen to the rightwing lies about inequality. Know the truth, and act on it. Even though French economist Thomas Piketty has made an air-tight case that we’re...
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Swindlers and Kochbots
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP by WILL DURST Swindlers and Kochbots In the bad old days, medieval German lords figured out how to pocket some quick coin by charging a toll on the primitive paths meandering across...
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Today's Titans of Sport
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN Today’s Titans of Sport There’s the wealthy. There’s the 1 percent. Then there are the pro sports owners. Over the last century, the titans who have stood astride the...
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The Waste-Pickers
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Jopp, Jessica
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POEM by JESSICA JOPP The Waste-Pickers —The manufacture of one computer produces 49 pounds of hazardous waste. —Women in India, Ghana, and China, sorting waste for recycling, are exposed to lead,...
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Inequality Now
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Rothschild, Matthew
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BOOKS by MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD Inequality Now Capital in the Twenty-First Century By Thomas Piketty Harvard University Press. 685 pages. $39.95. I admit it: I came to the Thomas Piketty book with...
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Populists Crash the Koch Lobby
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER Populists Crash the Koch Lobby An occupying army of Gucci-clad corporate lobbyists has set up camp in Washington, numbering more than 12,000. I’ll do the math for...
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