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Vol. 080 Issue 004 (April 1 2016)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Enough Is Enough
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Conniff, Ruth
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Enough Is Enough Thirty-two years ago, in a classic piece of gonzo journalism, Bill Lueders—then an intern at The Progressive, now associate editor—demonstrated how ridiculously easy it was for an...
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What Is a Progressive?
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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What Is a Progressive? The most absurd assertion in the media coverage of the 2016 Democratic presidential race—and that’s a high bar in a year where media coverage has been mon-umentally absurd—is...
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No Comment
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“Oh, Mom!” Washington state Representative Mary Dye shocked a group of teenage girls who met with her during Teen Lobby Day to put in a good word for Planned Parenthood by asking if they were...
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We Hear You
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Don’t Be Duped by the Kochs It sent shivers down my spine to read Van Jones, in his interview with David Kupfer (Febru-ary issue), boast of his work with Koch Industries and Newt Ging-rich on...
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Projects
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Want to Know What You’re Eating? Get Ready for Lawsuits By Carmelo Ruiz The states of Vermont and California have made major strides in defending consumers’ right to know about the presence of...
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Farm Workers in Two Countries Boycott Driscoll's Berries
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Bacon, David
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Farm Workers in Two Countries Boycott Driscoll’s Berries ? No matter whether they work in Washington State, California, or Mexico, blueberry pickers perform exhausting work. At Sakuma Farms in...
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What Do We Have to Fear?
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LUEDERS, BILL
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What Do We Have to Fear? To hear the Republican contenders for President teil it, Americans ought to be quaking in their boots over the threat of, all together now, “radical Islamic...
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After the Hurricane, Worker Co-ops Rebuild
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Nathanson, Rebecca
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After the Hurricane, Worker Co-ops Rebuild Rebecca Nathanson When Hurricane Sandy touched down in New York City two days before Halloween in October 2012, Luis Casco was in his bungalow in Far...
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Guns for Everyone: Shows Set Low Bar for Who Can Get a Lethal Weapon
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Comp, Nathan J.
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The 9mm Spectre M4 was one among thousands of weapons up for grabs at a February 6 gun show in West Bend, Wisconsin. A particular-ly fearsome firearm with pistol and forward-vertical grips, it is...
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Wrong Target: Gun Rules Hurt the Mentally Ill
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Ervin, Mike
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Wrong Target: Gun Rules Hurt the Mentally Ill By Mike Ervin When it comes to gun violence, people with psychiatric disabilities make for easy bogeymen and bogeywomen. Even the NrA agrees it...
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Enough, Already! States Do What They Can to Stem Gun Violence
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Johnson, Sharon
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In December, Stacey Newman, the soft-spoken leader of the Progressive caucus in the Missouri House of Representatives, decided that she had had enough. “In 2015, about 32,000 Ameri-cans died of...
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First Person Singular: My Life as a Push Poller
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McKinney, Jacqueline
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ff Good Evening, I would like to speak to you about the upcoming election. It will only take a few minutes and it would be very beneficial to the candidates to see where voters currently stand on...
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Expanding the Realm of What's Possible
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Ervin, Mike
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Expanding the Realm of What’s Possible An Interview with Ai-Jen Poo, Advocate for Domestic Workers and Home-Based Care By Mike Ervin i-Jen Poo was named a 2014 MacArthur fellow for her success in...
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For the Love of Mercy
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Clinton, Kate
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For the Love of Mercy Pope Francis has declared we are in the midst of an Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. The Vatican has been less than transparent regarding the Pontiffs projected success...
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Walking Away from the Game
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Zirin, Dave
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Walking Away from the Game New England Patriots star linebacker Jerod Mayo decided, at age twenty-nine, that he was done with the sur-geries, constant pain, and physical sacrifice that the National...
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Koch Brothers Lobby for Broken Government, Burning Planet
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Bottari, Mary
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Koch Brothers Lobby for Broken Government, Burning Planet By Mary Bottari Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right By Jane Mayer Doubleday. $29.95....
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Strangling Me With Your Lasso of Stars
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Waldman, Anne
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Strangling Me With Your Lasso of Stars (Aime Cesaire) Night In its rush Of words Caught The words were totems The words were beasts Day slowing down Against a mode of survival The words were...
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Time to Dump 'Do-Nothing' Mitch
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Hightower, Jim
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Time to Dump ‘Do-Nothing’ Mitch An t o n i n Scalia is gone. The nasti-est and noisiest of the Supreme Court’s right wingers is dead. But he can’t be any more brain dead than Mitch McConnell, the...
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