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 Vol. 084 Issue 001 (February 1 2020)
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••Contents••
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 A Path to the Future
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EDITOR’S NOTE for 2020.” Today, she writes,
BRENT NICASTRO who has worked for several
“we do not live in a system
where democratic popu lar will can be translated
into policy...
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Prepare for the Upcoming Civil War
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LUEDERS, BILL
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COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS PREPARE FOR THE UPCOMING CIVIL WAR Ed Asner, the actor and activist, came to Madison, Wisconsin, in mid-December to give three performances of the play God Help Us!,...
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On the 2020 Superhighway
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Aburamadan, Lara
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ON THE LINE by LARA ABURAMADAN ON THE 2020 SUPERHIGHWAY The new Supermajority movement launched with a giant pink-and-orange bus criss-crossing the country to mobilize women ahead of the 2020...
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NO COMMENT
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NO COMMENT Dying for Health Care A recent Gallup poll found that 13 percent of American adults—about thirty-four million people—say they have a friend or family member who has died in the last...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS Ilhan Omar’s Exceptionalism With the political gloom-and-doom of 2019 weighing heavily upon me, the December/January Progressive piece by John Nichols, “Ilhan Omar and the Politics of...
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My Friend Ishmael, the Republican
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN MY FRIEND ISHMAEL, THE REPUBLICAN
I have a friend who’s a Republican, which is exceedingly befuddling to me. I can’t fathom why anybody’s a Republican...
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Election 2020: Transformation or Stability?
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF ELECTION 2020: TRANSFORMATION OR STABILITY?
RUTH CONNIFF is editor-at-large
for The Progressive
and editor-in-chief
of a new state
news website,
the...
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Let the Voter Beware!
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SMOKING GUN LET THE VOTER BEWARE!
The Progressive stands for a set of principles, not any party or player. Our job is to neither praise nor bury politicians, but to hold them accountable. In...
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A Progressive Platform for 2020
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A Progressive
Platform for 2020
As the Democratic primary season clicks into full gear, a process that will include a reshaping of the party’s platform, The Progressive asked a group of experts...
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Demilitarize Foreign Policy
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BENJAMIN, MEDEA
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is fascinating to see how the foreign policy positions put forth by most oftheDemocrats runninggmostof the Democratsrunning ffor Presididentare striikikingly...
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Reimagine Democracy
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Taylor, Astra
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Reimagine Democracy
BY ASTRA TAYLOR After the fall of the Berlin Wall thirty years ago, liberal democracy reigned triumphant. Understood as one person, one vote, exercised in periodic...
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Pass Medicare for All-and More
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Thomhave, Kalena
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Will Copeland, an organizer with Breathe Free Detroit, has seen .rsthand the effects of an incinerator on his community. Kalena Thomhave is a writer covering poverty and inequality. She is...
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Build a Fairer Economy
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Goldstein, Alexis
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Build a Fairer
Economy BY ALEXIS GOLDSTEIN The United States is now more unequal than ever. Our student debt crisis gets worse by the day, and 40 percent of Americans cannot afford an...
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Restore Worker Power in Labor Law
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Jaffe, Sarah
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BY SARAH JAFFE Trying to narrow down a progressive labor policy agenda to a couple of pages is impossible: Just about everything is labor policy. The Green New Deal, as Sara Nelson, president...
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Build Infrastructure for the Future
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Mazur, Laurie
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On an ordinary day, you probably don’t think much about infrastructure. You twist a knob, and clean water .ows from
the tap. The daily commute is uneventful. Wires transmit electricity,...
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Hold Wall Street Accountable
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Kuhlenbeck, Mike
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T he race for a 2020 Democratic presidential nominee has drawn forth more than two dozen candidates seeking to unseat Donald Trump and bring about a well-deserved end to his administration. Yet...
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Take On Corporate Power in Agriculture
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Pahnk, Anthony Robert
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Take On Corporate Power in
Agriculture
Anthony Robert Pahnke is vice president of Family Farm Defenders and an assistant professor of international relations at San Francisco State...
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Develop Climate Policy from the Ground Up
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Rogers-Wright, Anthony Karefa
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Develop Climate Policyfrom the Ground Up BY ANTHONY KAREFA ROGERS-WRIGHT Over the past year, #GreenNewDeal rhetoric hasbecome ubiquitous. When New York RepresentativeAlexandria...
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Push for Racial Justice Beyond Race Alone
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Reed, Adolph Jr.
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Push for Racial Justice Beyond Race Alone BY ADOLPH REED JR. What ought a racial justice agenda look like as we anticipate the possibility of defeating Donald Trump in 2020, strengthening...
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Protect and Empower the LGBTQ Community
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Strangio, Chase
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Protect and Empower
the LGBTQ Community
BY CHASE STRANGIO We are living in a time of great desperation and great resilience within the LGBTQ community. It is a time of escalating...
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Take Drugs out of Drug Policy
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Castillo, Tessie
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Take Drugs Out of Drug Policy
BY TESSIE CASTILLO The biggest mistake we make when discussing drug policy is that we keep talking about drugs. That creates a debate that merely ping-pongs...
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'We All Really Need to Do Hard Things'
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Hersh, Eitan
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BOOK EXCERPT In 2017, Lisa Mann was alone, riding the subway in New York City. Lisa is in her mid-.fties, an architect. She and her husband, who is also an architect, are in business together....
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Making Economics 'a Lever of Action in the World'
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Pal, Amitabh
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INTERVIEW BRYCE VICKMARK Making Economics
‘a Lever of
Action in the World’ New Nobel winner Esther Du.o on how to build a better, fairer system. BY AMITABH PAL E sther Du.o,...
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BOOKS
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Ervin, Bill Lueders, Alice Herman, Mike
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BOOKS Making the Leap BY BILL LUEDERS I have read a lot of memoirs, some popular, others obscure. I’ll tell you my top three: This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff, The End of the World as We Know...
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The Electoral Zombie Apocalypse
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD THE ELECTORAL ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
A merican elections are designed to drive us crazy. It’s truly remarkable what we’ve done to ourselves. It is democracy...
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Busting Immigrants, an American Pastime
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Higgins, Maeve
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MAEVE IN AMERICA by MAEVE HIGGINS BUSTING IMMIGRANTS, AN AMERICAN PASTIME
S ince Donald Trump was elected President in 2016 on an anti-immigrant wave, at least twenty-four migrants have died...
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The Looting of Oakland
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN THE LOOTING OF OAKLAND F orty million dollars. This is court,” said Larry Reid, Oakland what the Golden State War-City Council president and Coliseriors owe the...
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Ode to the Soccer Ball Sailing over a Barbed Wire Fence
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Espada, Martín
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POEM by MARTÍN ESPADA ODE TO THE SOCCER BALL SAILING OVER A BARBED WIRE FENCE Tornillo . . . has become the symbol of what may be the largest U.S. mass detention of children not charged with...
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Dems Must Stand Up to Billionaires
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER DEMS MUST STAND UP TO BILLIONAIRES
T here’s a new political army on the march in America, moving forcibly into the 2020 presidential campaign....
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