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Paid articleBig Ideas, New Beginnings
Conniff, Ruth
EDITOR’S NOTE by RUTH CONNIFF Big Ideas, New Beginnings This special summer issue is packed with progressive ideas for making the world a better place. There is so much here: alternative forms of...
Paid articleSaving the World, One City at a Time
Conniff, Ruth
COMMENT by RUTH CONNIFF Saving the World, One City at a Time Joel Rogers is no Pollyanna Sunshine. But the well-known academic, activist, MacArthur “genius,” and director of COWS, the national...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Ready for Anything The Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education in North Carolina has agreed to let high school students carry pepper spray beginning this fall. Board member Chuck Hughes says...
Paid articleLetters
WE HEAR YOU Hillary Clinton and the Left The essay by John Nichols (“What Is a Progressive?,” March issue) was ex­cellent. My forefathers, too, were old-style progressives. One even launched...
Paid articleBig Banks Just Keep Getting Bigger
Lueders, Cara Lombardo and Bill
SMOKING GUN by CARA LOMBARDO and BILL LUEDERS Big Banks Just Keep Getting Bigger In the aftermath of the 2007 housing market crash which caused the Great Recession, a mantra emerged that the...
Paid articleCalifornia Domestic Workers Want Their Rights Made Permanent
Bacon, David
ON THE LINE by DAVID BACON California Domestic Workers Want Their Rights Made Permanent COTATI, CALIFORNIA, 2009 Betty Johnson changes the diaper on a boy she’s caring for. More than 300,000...
Paid articleWho Needs Money? Alternative Currencies Create Ways to Build Community and Keep Things Local
Nathanson, Rebecca
Who Needs Money? Alternative Currencies Create Ways to Build Community and Keep Things Local By Rebecca Nathanson For Paul Glover, what is happening in a small retail store in downtown Ithaca,...
Paid articleCommunity Banking Put Your Money Where Your House Is
Lombardo, Cara
COMMUNITY BANKING Put Your Money Where Your House Is By Cara Lombardo In late 2009, Arianna Huffington made an appeal to Huffington Post readers. She described an idea that came up at a dinner...
Paid articleNatural Burial Bringing Death Back Down to Earth
Harris, Mark
Natural Burial Bringing Death Back Down to Earth By Mark Harris JOE ANDERSON Shelia Champion wasn’t surprised when she got the call saying her father had died. Her father, “Buster” Stice, a...
Paid articleFree at Last People with Disabilities Find Community Living
Ervin, Mike
FREE AT LAST People with Disabilities Find Community Living By Mike Ervin PETE RYAN Three months before her seventeenth birthday, Norma Robertson was driving a car full of high school girls...
Paid article'We Triggered Something Epic' An Interview with Naquasia LeGrand of the Fight for $15
Jaffe, Sarah
‘We Triggered Something Epic’ An Interview with Naquasia LeGrand of the Fight for $15 By Sarah Jaffe When Naquasia LeGrand first got involved with the Fight for $15 workers’ movement, it was, she...
Paid articleAlt Transit High-Speed Rail for the Midwest
Johnson, Christopher
Alt Transit High-Speed Rail for the Midwest By Christopher Johnson For Rick Harnish, even to recall the experience of riding on a bullet train is thrilling. “You feel the acceleration coming out...
Paid articleMaking Progress Against Animal Cruelty An Interview with Wayne Pacelle
Dawn, Karen
Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty An Interview with Wayne Pacelle By Karen Dawn Wayne Pacelle is president and chief executive officer of the largest animal protection organization in the...
Paid articleCharlie Chaplin Hollywood's Political Exile
Rampell, Ed
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Hollywood's Political Exile by ed rampell PHOTOS: CHAPLIN’S WORLD™ © BUBBLES INCORPORATED SA As the world experiences a massive migration crisis, a major movie museum has opened...
Paid articleWriter, Farmer, Eater An Interview with Novella Carpenter
LUEDERS, BILL
Writer, Farmer, Eater An Interview with Novella Carpenter By Bill Lueders Novella Carpenter has grown lettuce for the Black Panthers, gone dumpster diving at gourmet restaurants to feed her...
Paid article'People Are Really Responding' An Interview with Labor Leader Bob Master
Jaffe, Sarah
‘People Are Really Responding’ An Interview with Labor Leader Bob Master By Sarah Jaffe Bob Master is co-chair of the New York State Working Families Party and political director for District...
Paid articleNew Economies for Native Nations
Rolo, Mark Anthony
New Economies for Native Nations By Mark Anthony Rolo During President Reagan’s budget-slashing years in the 1980s, American Indian governments were especially hard hit, facing even greater...
Paid article'We Need To Keep Ringing the Bell' An Interview with Dolores Huerta
Kupfer, David
‘We Need To Keep Ringing the Bell’ An Interview with Dolores Huerta By David Kupfer Labor leader, civil rights activist, feminist, and living legend Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm...
Paid articleLife and Death at Brazil's Olympic Games
Reichard, Lawrence
Life and Death at Brazil’s Olympic Games By Lawrence Reichard The Olympics may be killing Isabel Ribeiro. Literally. Ribeiro has an enlarged heart and needs surgery. But she can’t get the...
Paid articleMusic for the Dying
Hollis, Jennifer L.
KATHLEEN DOOHER Music for the Dying By Jennifer L. Hollis I began my education in music and end-of-life care nearly twenty years ago, in the fall of 1996. As a music-thanatologist, I play harp...
Paid articleIn Pursuit of Economic Equality An Interview with Dean Baker
Bottari, Mary
In Pursuit of Economic Equality An Interview with Dean Baker By Mary Bottari In a recent op-ed, published on the website Truthout, Dean Baker applied his analytical skills to one of the most...
Paid articleCan We Agree on Being Green?
LUEDERS, BILL
BOOKS Can We Agree on Being Green? By Bill Lueders In his State of the Union address, the President called on the nation to “make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the...
Paid articleStopping Baseball's Big Dip
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN Stopping Baseball’s Big Dip I will never forget my first Major League baseball game. It was Yan­kee Stadium in 1980-something. I had my baseball cap, my glove in case...
Paid articleGulf
Springer, Jane
POEM by JANE SPRINGER Gulf Somewhere in the mountains is a Gulf sells: Chargers, rhinestone lighters, trucker’s speed, cowhide keyrings, pinespray, bugwipes, sheepsgut, pizza, earplugs, pigears,...
Paid articleThe Uprising of the Outstanders
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER The Uprising of the Outstanders Jack Nich­olson once dryly noted that his mother “never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.” 2016 has certainly been an odd...
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