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 Vol. 079 Issue 012 (December 1 2015)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Hope and Change
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Conniff, Ruth
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EDITOR’S NOTE by RUTH CONNIFF Hope and Change In many ways, America seems to be unraveling. Donald Trump is a serious candidate for President. Economic insecurity plagues families everywhere....
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The Center Cannot Hold
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Conniff, Ruth
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COMMENT by RUTH CONNIFF The Center Cannot Hold It is the year of economic populism in American politics. The 2016 presidential primaries feature two slates of candidates scrambling to outdo...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Better Dead than Wet A law passed in Texas, set to take effect next August 1, on the fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s first mass campus shooting, at the University of Texas...
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We Hear You
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WE HEAR YOU Enjoyed the October Issue I’m writing to comment on several articles in the October issue. I especially enjoyed the Editor’s Note, “What Is Reform?” which speaks to the changes...
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Projects
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PROJECTS THE PROGRESSIVE MEDIA PROJECT Immigrant Food Workers Deserve a Break By Lydia Zepeda Immigrants from Mexico and Central America are an integral part of U.S. agriculture. They work...
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Marriage Equality on the Reservation
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Vanderpool, Tim
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ON THE LINE by TIM VANDERPOOL Marriage Equality on the Reservation Most LGBT Americans gained the right to wed in June. But for Ak-Chin tribal member Cleo Pablo (left), that right exists...
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Where the Money Goes
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LUEDERS, BILL
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SMOKING GUN by BILL LUEDERS Where the Money Goes Even in the era of Super PACs, pundits watch how much candidates raise for their campaigns. But they often overlook how the money is spent....
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From Plantation to Planet
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Sanders, Scott Russell
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From PLANTATION to PLANET By Scott Russell Sanders “It is the good fortune of many to live distant
from the scene of sorrow.” —Thomas Paine, Common Sense A few years ago I visited...
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'The Spirit of Occupy Is Alive'
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Whitney, Jake
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‘The Spirit of Occupy Is Alive’ An Interview with Kalle Lasn By Jake Whitney Kalle Lasn, editor of the anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters and one of the brains behind the Occupy movement,...
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Scenes from the Beginning of the End of the Fossil Age
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Mckibben, Bill
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Six years ago, as we were getting ready for the big climate conference in Copenhagen, the world was hopeful—in fact, Coca-Cola was so hopeful it ran a big ad campaign dubbing the city...
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Curb Capitalism, Save the Planet
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LUEDERS, BILL
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Naomi Klein may be the most hopeful person on the planet. Despite her shattering assessment of the mostly inevitable consequences of global climate change in her 2014 book, This Changes...
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Lessons from Medellín
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Miner, Barbara
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Lessons from Medellín In early September, days before my husband and I were to leave for Medellín, Colombia, for three months, we watched the Netflix series Narcos. In graphic...
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Welcome to Sweden
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Andersson, Ingrid
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came to Sweden to research reproductive freedom. I wanted to study family policies in a country where citizens get 480 days of paid parental leave and up to six weeks of annual paid vacation and...
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The Women Who Won't Go Away
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Kelly, Kathy
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First Person Singular by KATHY KELLY The Women Who Won’t Go Away Responding to knocks at the gate, I open the door of the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ “Border Free Center” in Kabul. I...
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'We Are at a Tipping Point'
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Conniff, Ruth
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‘We Are at a Tipping Point’ An Interview
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Robert Reich by Ruth Conniff Robert Reich is a rock star. The soft-spoken professor of public policy at the University of California,...
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The Flag Is Down, the Fight Goes On
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Gray, Kevin Alexander
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The Flag Is Down, the Fight Goes On By Kevin Alexander Gray A lot of people ask me why I stay in South Carolina. Well, my father is from South Carolina. But the reality is that you can’t...
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'Hopelessness Is the Enemy of Justice'
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Strang, Dean A.
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‘Hopelessness Is the Enemy
of Justice’ An Interview with
Bryan Stevenson By Dean A. Strang Most trial lawyers engage, daily, with the emotions and vices that underlie human conflict—anger,...
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Making Animal Protection a Political Issue
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Dawn, Karen
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In July, an American trophy hunter lured a black-maned lion named Cecil out of a national park in Zimbabwe and killed him. Cecil, who was being studied by conservationists, struck a...
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A Digital Age That Serves People, Not Profits
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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A Digital Age That
Serves People,
Not Profits By John Nichols John Nichols, who writes about politics for The Nation and is the associate editor of The Capital Times, adapted this...
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Rebuilding the World
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Pal, Amitabh
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Rebuilding
the World An Interview with
Lester Brown By Amitabh Pal Lester Brown is the oracle of environmentalism. Through his work over more than half a century, especially in the...
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Behold, My Sincerity Detector
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED by KATE CLINTON Behold, My Sincerity Detector The retractable cord on the vacuum cleaner is one of the best inventions in recent memory. Sometimes just for fun, I like to drag...
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NBA Player Takes on Police Brutality
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN NBA Player Takes on Police Brutality NBA player Thabo Sefolosha’s declara tion on October 26 that he will be suing the city of New York and eight police...
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God Speaks Through the Seals
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Harwell, Sarah C.
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POEM by SARAH C. HARWELL God Speaks Through the Seals The seals returned from near extinction to rest and brood on a J-shaped brooch, fastened, a mile long and a few feet wide, to nothing...
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Our Favorite Books of 2015
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Our Favorite Books of 2015 BOOKS By Kate Clinton Ever since Dr. Ben Carson demonstrated that the ability to separate Siamese twins is a qualification for...
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Index
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INDEX The Progressive Index 2015 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:...
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The Republican House of Ridiculousness
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER The Republican House of Ridiculousness If it were under the big top, it would be a hilarious clown show—with pratfalls, wild posturing, tumbling, juggling, and...
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