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 Vol. 084 Issue 003 (June 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Editor’s Note
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EDITOR’S NOTE OUR MISSION Every day at 10 a.m., the staff of The Progressive get together for a conference call, using Google Hangouts. We usually turn off the function that allows us to see...
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COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS TRUMP’S PANDEMIC OF IGNORANCE
D uring one of his freewheeling media briefings in April, Donald Trump fielded a question from Yamiche Alcindor, White House...
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On the Line
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ON THE LINE SIGNS OF THE TIMES We asked friends, readers, and contributors to send us some of the signs that are appearing in the midst of this pandemic. Here’s a...
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Smoking Gun
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SMOKING GUN CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?
President Donald Trump insists the COVID-19 pandemic caught everybody by surprise. In fact, he ignored multiple warnings from many quarters, making the U.S....
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT Before the Deluge From a letter to the editor, published March 16 in the Wisconsin State Journal, objecting to the “idiocy” of closing restaurants to contain the spread of COVID 19:...
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Letters
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LETTERS The Case for Biden Ruth Conniff: I think you were a little hard on Joe Biden (“What Happened to the Revolution?,” April/May issue). He was not my first choice for the nomination (I sent...
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Blast from the Past
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BLAST FROM THE PAST ‘THE DEPRESSION IS LIKE A DISEASE’ In October 1929 the stock market crashed, ushering in a severe economic depression that would last more than a decade. With the election of...
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Shut Down the Death Traps
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN SHUT DOWN THE DEATH TRAPS
H ere in Illinois, we have these things called state-operated developmental centers, or SODCs. I think that acronym is way off...
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The GOP’s Hollow War on ‘Tyranny’
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF THE GOP’S HOLLOW WAR ON ‘TYRANNY’
C ould the Democratic governor of Wisconsin or the head of his state health department start rounding up citizens and putting...
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Life on the Edge
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Lappé, Frances Moore
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Life on the
BY FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ We’ve never been here before. So let’s look to the horizon.
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the world into uncharted territory, with challenges...
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The Corona Class War
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Pizzigati, Sam
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Sam Pizzigati co-edits Inequality.org for the Institute for Policy Studies. His recent books include The Case for a Maximum Wage and The Rich Don’t Always Win. The Corona Class War Will the...
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On the Front Lines
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Johnson, Sharon
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Health professionals from the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On the Front Lines Community health centers play a BY SHARON JOHNSON vital role in the age...
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A Better Health Care System?
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Jaffe, Sarah
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A Better Health Care System? Despite glitches during the pandemic,
the VA provides a model for the nation.
Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at the Type Media Center and the author of...
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Q: How Can We Use the Pandemic to Organize Workers?
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Telles, Christian Smalls; Tre Kwon; Matthew
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ONE QUESTION Q: How Can We Use the Pandemicto Organize Workers? CHRISTIAN SMALLS Former Amazon employee and labor activist This pandemic has exposed the good, the bad, and the ugly. Let’s...
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The Essential, the Undocumented
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Goodman, James
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The Essential, the Undocumented
COVID-19 exposes the fallacy and danger of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade. BY JAMES GOODMAN In mid-March, a local community group in New Orleans called...
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Friends in Need
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Nathanson, Rebecca
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Friends
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Mutual aid societies offer a model of cooperation for helping the vulnerable. BY REBECCA NATHANSON It was mid-March when Julia Ho realized that COVID-19 would hit St. Louis a...
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Blacklash
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Gilmore, Brian
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Blacklash
COVID-19 is taking a deadly toll on African Americans. BY BRIAN GILMORE In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when more people began dying in Michigan, where I live, friends...
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Racism in Schools Could Worsen
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Miller, Rann
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Racism in Schools Could Worsen After the pandemic, will we .nally accept the truth that America’s public education system harms black children? BY RANN MILLER With in-person education...
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Other Nations Lead the Way
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Erlich, Reese
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Other Nations
Lead the Way How China, South Korea, and Germany developed e.ective strategies for .ghting COVID-19. Even before the pandemic, these Chinese workers at this chocolate factory in...
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Our Disaster
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Kelly, Kathy
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Our Disaster Why the United States bears responsibility for Yemen’s humanitarian crisis. BY KATHY KELLY An entire generation of Yemeni children has suffered the traumas of war, many of them...
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Book Excerpt
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Cox, Stan
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BOOK EXCERPT Creating a Climate for Real Change The Green New Deal is only a starting point toward a sustainable future. BY STAN COX T hanks to human-induced greenhouse warming, the...
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Interview
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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INTERVIEW ‘I Believe in BuildingSystems’ Stacey Abrams outlines a vision for a fairer and more democratic society. BY JOHN NICHOLS S tacey Abrams has a knack for fusing ideas and...
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Books
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BOOKS We Don’t Need No Corporations
BY JAKE WHITNEY Back in March 2019, shortly after she announced her candidacy for President, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren
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The Art of Being Nonessential
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD THE ART OF BEING NONESSENTIAL
I ’m a comedian. I’m among the least essential of workers. I’m it—it’s me! I’m SOOOOOO nonessential. Comedians can’t treat...
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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
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Higgins, Maeve
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MAEVE IN AMERICA by MAEVE HIGGINS I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY
W ell, the news is out. Once again I have failed to win a Pulitzer prize. I know, it’s a revolting oversight. I have shot off...
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A Dangerous Game
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN A DANGEROUS GAME
A n aggressive push to reopen the sports world is coming from a variety of avenues. First are the fans who desire some semblance of...
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Two Untitled Poems
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Perchik, Simon
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TWO UNTITLED POEMS by SIMON PERCHIK You right the nail on this wall as if it were a boundary stone was already used to distances before the house was built board by board inside a picture frame...
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Rescue the Post Office!
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER RESCUE THE POST OFFICE!
O ne thing we’ve learned for sure this year is that no national crisis is too awful to keep Trump & Company from exploiting it for their...
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