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 Vol. 081 Issue 007 (October 1 2017)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Over the Wall
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Conniff, Ruth
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Over the Wall This issue of the magazine came together through the inspiration and editorial leadership of our managing editor, Bill Lueders. I can’t take much credit for it, and I leave it to...
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Trumping Trumpism
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LUEDERS, BILL
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Trumping Trumpism It can and probably should be said that during the first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency, much has gone well. Trump has proven himself spectacularly inept at...
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No Comment
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Danger! Falling Stash! President Trump told reporters he wants his long-promised wall on the U.S.-Mexican border to be see-through—to protect the American public from hurled contraband. “As...
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Letters
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Democrats Shouldn’t Be the
Party of Impeachment I strongly disagree with John Nichols’s advice for Democrats to push for impeachment (“The Case for Im peachment,” August/September issue). Trump...
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The Battle for Mosul: A Humanitarian Disaster
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Smith, Byron
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The Battle for Mosul:
A Humanitarian Disaster October marks the first anniversary of the start of the battle for Mosul, Iraq, a major military operation undertaken by U.S.-backed Iraqi and Kurdish...
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The Lying Golfer-in-Chief
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LUEDERS, BILL
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The Lying Golfer-in-Chief As a candidate, Donald Trump repeatedly assured the American public that he would be way too busy to golf. For instance, in an interview with The Hill on June 23, 2016,...
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The Courtesy of the Oppressed
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Conniff, Ruth
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THE COURTESY OF
THE OPPRESSED This summer, just as my family and I were packing up and getting ready to move from Madison, Wisconsin, to Oaxaca, Mexico, for a year, a lot of Mexican immigrant...
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Across the Great Divide On the Road in Trump's America
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Phillips, Noah
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ACROSS THE GREAT DIVIDE On the Road in Trump’s America By Noah Phillips On Election Night, I was in my favorite neighborhood dive in Red Hook, Brooklyn, drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon and watching...
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The Case for Mercy Some of the Unlikeliest People Oppose the Death Penalty
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Gunn, Erik
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The Case for Mercy Some of the Unlikeliest People Oppose the
Death Penalty By Erik Gunn SueZann Bosler was one of several family members of murder victims among eighteen death penalty...
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Denver's Crackdown on Being Homeless
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Nathanson, Rebecca
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Denver’s Crackdown
on Being Homeless By Rebecca Nathanson The temperature in Denver’s River North Art District has topped ninety degrees on a blistering July afternoon, but Jerry Burton keeps...
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Up Against the Other NRA Trump Could Help Restaurant Group Eat Away at Workers' Rights
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Popp, Evan
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Up Against the Other NRA Trump Could Help Restaurant Group Eat Away at Workers’ Rights By Evan Popp RYAN GARCIA AMANDA NORRIS WAS FED UP. In October 2016, after nearly a year of working at the...
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Keep Out! How the U.S. Is Militarizing Mexico's Southern Border
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Abbott, Jeff
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Keep Out! How the U.S. Is Militarizing Mexico’s Southern Border By Jeff Abbott Marvin Garcia looks out over the Suchiate River from the Guatemalan side of Mexico’s southern border. For...
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What's Really Going Down in Venezuela
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Erlich, Reese
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© REESE ERLICH What’s Really Going Down in Venezuela Anti-government demonstrators blocked freeways in Caracas, and some youth threw Molotov cocktails at police. Carmelinda Valera and her...
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Terrorist or Victim of Entrapment? Milwaukee Case Raises Troubling Issues
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Potter, Steven
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Terrorist or Victim
of Entrapment? Milwaukee Case Raises Troubling Issues By Steven Potter When federal agents arrested a young Muslim man in an undercover sting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, last...
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Public Broadcasting at Fifty From a Proud Beginning to an Uncertain Future
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Stockwell, Norman
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YOICHI OKAMOTO, LBJ LIBRARY Public Broadcasting at Fifty From a Proud Beginning to an Uncertain Future President Johnson signing the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. By Norman Stockwell Fifty...
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Betsy DeVos The Investor Who Got a High Return
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Betsy DeVos The Investor Who
Got a High Return By John Nichols AP IMAGES In March 2017, the eleventh Secretary of Education for a nation founded on James Madison’s premise that “learned...
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'Great Things Come Out of Discomfort' An Interview with Our Revolution's Nina Turner
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Stockwell, Norman
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‘Great Things Come Out of
Discomfort’ An Interview with
Our Revolution’s
Nina Turner By Norman Stockwell Nina Turner is a lifelong activist from a working-class family in Cleveland, Ohio. Before...
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The Right Stuff: Charlie Sykes and the Practice of Sane Conservatism
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LUEDERS, BILL
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The Right Stuff: Charlie Sykes and the Practice of Sane
Conservatism By Bill Lueders How the Right Lost Its Mind By Charles J. Sykes St. Martin’s Press. 288 pages. Jerry Rubin went from...
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How Trump's Fifth Avenue Shooting Plays Out
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Durst, Will
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How Trump’s Fifth Avenue Shooting Plays Out Anybody remember way back in the day when Donald Trump boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose...
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A Life in the Family
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Clinton, Kate
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A Life in the Family Champa Rani Vaid died on July 22 in College Station, Texas, at age eighty-seven. She was the mother of my dear partner, Urvashi Vaid. I knew Champa for thirty years. I...
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Kaepernick's Legacy Lives On
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Zirin, Dave
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Kaepernick’s Legacy Lives On A widely held assumption among NFL executives was that the national anthem protests started last year by quarterback Colin Kaepernick would end with the beginning of...
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Site Report: Syracuse
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Smith, Bruce
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Site Report: Syracuse The Friends of the Rain proved to be pragmatists. The Friends of the Snow, metaphysicians. The Friends of the Rain looked out windows late afternoons and saw all the things...
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ALEC's War on Local Control
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Hightower, Jim
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ALEC’s War on Local Control Just days after last November’s election, jubilant members and top staffers of the notorious corporate front group ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council)...
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