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 Vol. 082 Issue 004 (August 1 2018)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Editor's Note
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Conditions of Employment
M y father worked for more than thirty years, half his life, for a laundry and dry cleaning company in Milwaukee, picking up and dropping off clothes at the homes of...
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Comment
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LUEDERS, BILL
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COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS
Let’s Have a War on Donald Trump
I f there’s one thing Donald Trump’s supporters can’t stand, it’s incivility. Not, to be clear, the President’s incivility—his...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT
Ah, the Sport of It! U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has moved to rescind Obama-era restrictions on hunting on public lands in Alaska. Guys and gals with guns will...
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Letters
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LETTERS
Ideas for the States It was good to see the article by John Nichols, “Taking It to the States” (June/ July issue). For too long, progressives have neglected the states and their impact...
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On the Line
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Marovich, Pete
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ON THE LINE by ZACH D. ROBERTS Fast Times on the Border
From a humble office in the border town of San Juan, Texas, staff and volunteers at the small nonpro.t La Union del Pueblo Entero, or...
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Smoking Gun
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SMOKING GUN by BILL LUEDERS
He’s Lying! In his first 500 days in office, President Donald Trump made 3,251 false or misleading statements, according to The Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog....
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Smart Ass Cripple
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN
The Other Refugee Crisis
I f we adopt the policy of building insurmountable walls to keep certain people out of certain places, things can get out of hand...
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Over the Wall
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Conniff, Ruth
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OVER THE WALL by RUTH CONNIFF
Lessons in Democracy from Mexico
M exico’s populist president-elect, Andrés Man uel López Obrador, and his new Movement for National...
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The Supremes v. Unions
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Blum, Bill
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The Supremes v. Unions
Rulings Expose High Court’s Anti-Worker Bias
By Bill Blum
Toward the end of the oral argument in a pivotal labor case before
the U.S. Supreme Court last February,...
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Ties That Bind
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Russell-Kraft, Stephanie
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Ties That Bind Draconian Employment Contracts Are Creating a New Form of Indentured Servitude By Stephanie Russell-Kraft I n the summer of 2016, Adam Merberg was offered a job as a data...
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'This Is in Our Blood'
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Weber, Brandon
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‘This Is in Our Blood’
How Striking West Virginians Made History—Again
T he hills of West Virginia are steeped in a sense of isolation. It’s a place that these days doesn’t normally allow the...
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Nanny Nation
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Higgins, Maeve
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Nanny
Nation
There Is One Job Americans
Don’t Mind Giving Immigrants:
Caring for Their Kids By Maeve Higgins As
we stood at the school gates on a well-to-do Brooklyn street, Shelly...
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The Wall at Home
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Goodman, James
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The Wall at Home
Trump’s Assault on the Immigration Courts
By James Goodman D olores Bustamante Romero crossed the U.S-Mexico border .fteen years ago with her three-year-old daughter,...
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Ending the Silence
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Johnson, Sharon
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Advocates Take Aim at Non-Disclosure Pacts That Protect Sexual Harassers Zelda Perkins was a good employee who followed the rules—including the one that directed her to keep quiet about being...
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Where There's Smoke, There's Fired
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Margolin, Madison
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fired Employers Are Still Dumping Workers
for Using Pot, Even Where It’s Legal
By Madison Margolin For the past eleven years, Josh Harvey has been a patient...
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Going Local
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Davis-Cohen, Simon
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GOING LOCAL
How Communities Across the Nation Are Fighting Back By Simon Davis-Cohen I n the age of Donald Trump, some of the most significant political battles are taking place on the local...
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At the Corner of Happy and Hypocritical
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Lowes, Robert
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At the Corner of
Happy
Hypocritical
Why Is the Nation’s Largest Drugstore
Chain Still Selling Cigarettes?
By Robert Lowes Recently, I called Osborn Drugs, a local pharmacy in Miami,...
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Black Officer, White Robe
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Forman, Bill
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Black Officer,
A New Film Recounts One of the Most Ironic In.ltrations of All Time Even in its leanest years, the Ku Klux Klan was never so hard up
for members that it reached out to...
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The Undoing of Progressive Wisconsin
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Kaufman, Dan
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The Undoing of Progressive Wisconsin State’s Political Transformation By Dan Kaufman A t one thirty in the morning on election night in 2016, the networks called Wisconsin, awarding...
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'Not Good for a Democracy'
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LUEDERS, BILL
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‘Not Good for
a Democracy’
An Interview with
James Clapper
By Bill Lueders I n 1953, when James Clapper was twelve, he discovered that his grandparents’ black-and-white TV could pick...
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Book Review
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Stockwell, Norman
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BOOKS
Into the Light The Legacy of Lorraine Hansberry By Norman Stockwell Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry By Imani Perry Beacon Press. 256...
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Off the Map
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Durst, Will
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OFF THE MAP by WILL DURST
The Oval Office Apprentice
P resident Donald Trump has failed at many endeavors: casinos, air lines, univer sities, steaks, wine, vodka, board games,...
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Edge of Sports
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN
Why LeBron James Must Not Shut Up
L eBron James is taking his talents to Venice Beach. The great est basketball player on earth has signed with the...
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Poem
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Plenty, Trevino L. Brings
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POEMS by TREVINO L. BRINGS PLENTY
BUTTERFLY HORN
Inspired by Kevin Pourier’s Butterfly Earring I needle pierced my left ear to protect myself. Butterfly wing of bison horn earring...
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Vox Populist
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER
Keep Resisting!
“P rogress is a nice word,” said Bobby Kenne dy. “But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.” Over the decades,...
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