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 Vol. 083 Issue 001 (February 1 2019)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters for a Better World
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EDITOR’S NOTE LETTERS FOR A BETTER WORLD During an average week, more than 1,000 people come to The Progressives website to look at a single story: James Baldwin’s 1962 masterpiece, “A Letter to...
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The Politics of Racism
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COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS THE POLITICS OF RACISM To say that Donald Trump is a racist is to state the obvious but miss the point. He was sued by the federal government in the 1970s for re-jecting...
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Finding Us
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Naughton, Jake
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ON THE LINE by JAKE NAUGHTON FINDING US Juan and I met eight years ago at a coffee shop in Washington, D.C. We had been messaging for weeks before that on OKCupid, trying to find a time to get...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Somebody, Please Hold a Telethon! The combined wealth of the world’s 500 richest people declined by about a half-trillion lastyear, to $4.7 trillion. “Overall" reported Bloomberg, “the...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS Better REDD+ than Nothing As someone who has worked on pay-for-performance emissions reduc-tions programs at the state level in California, the national level in Mexico, and now the...
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Once More, into the Vortex of Dread
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN ONCE MORE, INTO THE VORTEX OF DREAD Yeah, OK, so it’s true that the squatter currently oc-cupying the White House doesn’t go around saying the same ugly stuff about...
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Losing the Farm
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF LOSING THE FARM Jim Goodman, an organic dairy farmer in Wonewoc, Wisconsin, sold his cows in June. “Dairy farming is little more than hard work and possible...
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Whole Lotta Hate
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SMOKING GUN WHOLE LOTTA HATE The number of hate crimes jumped about 17 percent in 2017 from the year before, according to FBI stats released in November. More than 7,000 individual hate crimes...
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A Letter to My Niece
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Felton, Ariel
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Dea TtfrCüa, I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately. Not you as you are now, but as you were when you were born. For nine months, everyone in the house was on edge, ever since your mother, my...
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Striking Steel
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Perry, Imani
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Striking Steel BY IMANI PERRY IN DECEMBER 1962 , when James Baldwin’s “A Letter to My Nephew” was published, my grandmother was at the tail end of her years of bearing children, though still in...
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Blending in as a Pakistani Muslim
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Ali, Wajahat
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BY WAJAHAT ALI WAJAHAT ALI is a contributing op-ed writer for The New York Times, a recovering attorney, and TV host, and an exhausted baba of two. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia. We would be...
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Anti-Semitism in the Age of Trump
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Zimmerman, Laurie
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TODD KRYSIAK V /'¦' j. /hj' <¦1 L. J * * Anti-Semitism the Age BY LAURIE ZIMMERMAN Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman talks about a controversial photo involving students posing in a Nazi salute on...
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To My Fellow White Others
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Strangio, Chase
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>UJ O Chase Strangio meets with ACLU dient Chelsea Manning after her release from prison in 2017. BY CHASE STRANGIO To My Fellow White Others ne day, while waiting for a friend at Penn...
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What It Really Means to Be Indian
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Rolo, Mark Anthony
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What It Really Means to Be Indian BY MARK ANTHONY ROLO Like many people, I have at least one friend who has invested money in finding out just what blood runs through his family’s veins. Erik is...
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How Do We Counteract Othering in America Today?
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Mitchell, Carmen Perez-Jordan, Felicia Wong, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Maurice
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ONE QUEST ION How Do We Counteract Othering in America Today? As this issue reflects on our most populär published work, James Baldwin’s 1962 essay “A Letter to My Nephew," we turned to some of...
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The Seduction of Labels
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Manji, Irshad
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The Seduction of Labels BY IRSHAD MANJI Editors note: Irshad Manji, a bestselling author and founder of the Moral Courage Project at the University of Southern California, has a new book: Don’t...
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Fed-Up Service Workers Push Back
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Davis-Cohen, Simon
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FED-UP SERVICE WORKERS PUSH BACK Hotel and Theme Park Employees Are Taking to Local Ballot Measures to Improve Working Conditions—and Winning BY SIMON DAVIS-COHEN NEREXDA SOTO WAS TWENTY-TWO...
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Paul Manafort in Ukraine: An Adventure That Wrecked a Country
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Rachinsky, Brendan Oswald and Sergiy
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Paul Manafort (left) and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych BY BRENDAN OSWALD AND SERGIY RACHINSKY PAUL MANAFORT IN UKRAINE: AH ADVENTURE THAT WREEKED A COUNTRY For a convicted felon...
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Sounding the Alarm
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Potter, Steven
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How Private Interests Are Encroaching on Emergency Services BY STEVEN POTTER A few years ago, the emergency medical services system serving the 8,000 residents of four small communities in south...
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The Charter School Next Door
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Lahm, Sarah
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BEN GARVIN The Charter School Next Door What Happens When Public Education Becomes a Marketplace? BYSARAH LAHM Sarah Lahm is a writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her writing has appeared in...
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'There Is No Such Thing as a Nonracist'
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LUEDERS, BILL
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‘There Is No Such Thing as a Nonracist’ An Interview with Ibram X. Kendi BY BILL LUEDERS here is only one part of Ibram X. Kendi’s name he’s had all his life. Born in 1982 as Ibram H. Rogers in...
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Herken, Norman Stockwell, Bill Lueders, Olivia
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BOOKS Timuel Black’s ‘Typical’ Life Activist and Historian Recalls His 100 Years on the Streets of Chicago BY NORMAN STOCKWELL Sacred Ground THE CHICAGO STREETS OF TIMUEL BLACK AS TOLD TO...
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Maternity Leave
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD MATERNITY LEAVE NEGIN FARSAD is the host of the political comedy podcast Fake the Nation and author of the book How to Make White People Laugh. Follow her on...
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Whatsamatter, Girly, No Sense of Humor?
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Higgins, Maeve
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MAEVE IN AMERICA by MAEVE HIGGINS WHATSAMATTER, GIRLY, NO SENSE OF HUMOR? On stage at a comedy festival in 2016, taping a live podcast in front of almost 2,000 people, I got a familiar feeling....
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Enes Kanter's Lonely and Dangerous Rebellion
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN ENES KANTER’S LONELY AND DANGEROUS REBELLION DAVE ZIRIN is the host of the populär Edge of Sports podcast and sports editor of The Nation. His most recent book is Jim...
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Not-Her
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Sleigh, Tom
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POEM by TOM SLEIGH NOT-HER “Just a child” is the phrase for them the NGOers always used. A phrase in which “just a child” meant categories of inviolable trust, of innocence destroyed, of...
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Free the Press from Wall St. Plunderers
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER FREE THE PRESS FROM WALL ST. PLÜNDERERS Populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator JIM HIGHTOWER writes The Hightower Lowdown, a monthly newsletter...
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