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Vol. 081 Issue 002 (February 1 2017)
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Conniff, Ruth
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EDITOR'S NOTE by RUTH CONNIFF Solidarity and Struggle We have been covering the nefarious workings of the school privatization lobby for the last several years here at The Progressive. Public...
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It Can Happen Here
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Conniff, Ruth
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COMMENT by RUTH CONNIFF It Can Happen Here Many Americans were shocked to learn about the CIA report that Russia meddled in the U.S. election in order to help elect Donald Trump. Trump himself...
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How Trump Can Unite the Left
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Cook, Christopher D.
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FURTHER COMMENT by CHRISTOPHER D. COOK How Trump Can Unite the Left As millions of Democrats, Greens, liberals, progressives, and lefties across America prepare to resist Trump, it’s time to build...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Fun for the Whole Nuclear Family The Ukrainian city of Chernobyl, site of a catastrophic 1986 nuclear accident, is now a tourist destination. The New York Times Travel section on...
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Letters
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WE HEAR YOU Go, Superheroes! Dear Urban Superheroes at The Progressive: I’ve never before written to a magazine to comment, but I’ve just been SO blown away by your journalism; so lucid, so...
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Five Years of Vigils and Protests at the West County Detention Center
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Bacon, David
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ON THE LINE by DAVID BACON Five Years of Vigils and Protests at the West County Detention Center Five years ago, the Reverend Deborah Lee of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity began...
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Steve Bannon, Trump's Right-Hand Batterer
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LUEDERS, BILL
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SMOKING GUN by BILL LUEDERS Steve Bannon, Trump’s Right-Hand Batterer One of Donald Trump’s first moves after he was elected President was to tap Breitbart news executive Steve Bannon as his chief...
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Coal and Climate Change in Kentucky
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Cole, Tanner
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Coal and Climate Change in Kentucky By Tanner Cole The small front office of Trimble County High School is crowded. Eleven people stand in the doorway, letting in the cool morning air. The Lady...
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Defending the Earth from Donald Trump
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HELVARG, DAVID
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Defending the Earth from Donald Trump By David Helvarg As a coastal developer, Donald Trump has bulldozed ancient sand dunes and opposed offshore wind turbines (because they “ruined the view”) in...
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Mexico's Uprising Against Education 'Reform
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Abbott, Jeff
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Mexico’s Uprising Against Education ‘Reform’ By Jeff Abbott ntering the state of Oaxaca has become a trying process, ever since the Mexican Federal Police massacred, according to human rights...
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The Long Game of Betsy DeVos
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Berkshire, Jennifer
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The Long Game of Betsy DeVos By Jennifer Berkshire I first laid eyes upon Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, at television journalist Campbell Brown’s forum for GOP...
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Retrieving Bones, Reviving Memories: The Practice of Reconciliation in Spain and Latin America
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Stockwell, Norman
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Retrieving Bones, Reviving Memories The Practice of Reconciliation in Spain and Latin America By Norman Stockwell It looked like an ordinary field you might see on a construction site—...
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The Indian Wars Have Never Ended
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Rolo, Mark Anthony
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The Indian Wars Have Never Ended By Mark Anthony Rolo The standoff at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota over the construction of an oil pipeline that threatens to contaminate...
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Disaster Area: U.S. Policy in the Middle East An Interview with Andrew Bacevich
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Stockwell, Norman
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Disaster Area: U.S. Policy in the Middle East An Interview with Andrew Bacevich By Norman Stockwell Andrew Bacevich is a retired Army colonel who served in Vietnam, Europe, and the Persian Gulf....
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Richmond's Example to the Nation
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HELVARG, DAVID
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Richmond’s Example to the Nation By David Helvarg Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City by Steve Early Beacon Press, 248 pages, $27.95 I first got to know...
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Poem
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Stern, Gerald
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POEM by GERALD STERN Coal Barons What she was doing there in the first place was resting her tired back after the journey from Lexington to Park and so on and sat herself down first on one of...
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I Renounce Hair Trump
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Clinton, Kate
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UNPLUGGED by KATE CLINTON I Renounce Hair Trump e x a > 1 a y Elaine Stritch singing ‘I’m Still Here’ from Follies.” I stand in the bedroom, in a white shirt and my black yoga tights, and belt...
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The Ali We Need Today
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN The Ali We Need Today There are so many Muhammad Alis: the otherworldly boxer, the impossibly handsome wordsmith, and of course the icon. These are the Alis we search...
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Putting the Constitution Up for Sale
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER Putting the Constitution Up for Sale When you think of America’s great Constitutional originators, names like Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, and...
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