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Vol. 085 Issue 001 (February 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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A Time to Fight
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A TIME TO FIGHT Despite the familiar chaos and horrific violence that marks the end of the Trump presidency, the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the nation’s forty-sixth...
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Repairing the Breach
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II, William J. Barber
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REPAIRING THE BREACH When then-candidate Joe Biden addressed a virtual assembly of the Poor People’s Campaign last fall, he promised that ending poverty would be more than an aspiration if...
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Give Biden a Push
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LUEDERS, BILL
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GIVE BIDEN A PUSH
I n a talk he gave between the election and the Inauguration, Joe Biden thanked health-care workers on the front lines of COVID-19. He empathized with families who have lost...
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No Comment
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It Was Here Just a Minute Ago! Among the voter-fraud hotspots identified by lawyers supporting defeated President Donald Trump in his failed effort to steal the election was Edison County,...
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Letters
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Saving the Red Wolf Thank you for running Stephen Nash’s article (“Red Alert”) on red wolves in your December/January issue. The failure of the Fish and Wildlife Service to prioritize...
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Blasr from the Past
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PROGRESSIVE From an article on the sixteenth President, written by journalist, author, and attorney Fred L. Holmes, in the February 1920 issue of La Follete’s Magazine (which...
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Farmwork in the Era of COVID-19
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Bacon, David
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FARMWORK IN THE ERA OF COVID-19
The infection rate from the coronavirus is much higher in the rural counties of California than it is in the cities. In Tulare County, more than 40,000 people...
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Biden's Low Priority, Our High Hopes
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Ervin, Mike
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BIDEN’S LOW PRIORITY, OUR HIGH HOPES
W e’re entering the Biden-Harris years, which—considering how punch drunk we all are from the last four years—are destined to someday be known as the Golden...
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How We Got Here
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Conniff, Ruth
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HOW WE GOT HERE
A fter the unprecedented crisis at the end of the Trump Administration, which de volved into chaos and violence at the U.S. Capitol, and a second impeachment, Republicans...
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Say Their Names
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SAY THEIR NAMES I n 2020, according to a database managed by The Washington Post, police officers shot and killed exactly 1,000 people in the line of duty, topping each of the previous five...
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Why Biden Needs to Go Bold
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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E ven before Joe Biden was sworn in on January 20, many of the President-elect’s Congressional allies showed a willingness to embrace the same cautious approach to governing that had de.ned...
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Toward a More Equal Union
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Pizzigati, Sam
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Toward a
More Equal
The new administration could take plenty of steps
to address economic disparity.
How much more equitable can our nation become under President
Joe Biden? Maybe more than...
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Vaccinate This!
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Shure, Natalie
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VACCINATE THIS! Addressing the deep inequalities exposed by COVID-19 will probably prove more elusive than treating the disease. BY NATALIE SHURE After a year of unfathomable bungling on...
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The U.S. War Machine: Now Under New Management
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BENJAMIN, MEDEA; Davies, Nicolas J.S.
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The failure of the United States to respond effectively to a global pandemic is a predictable result of a political and economic system in which the health and other unmet needs of poor, working...
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How Biden Can Tackle the Climate Crisis
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Gerhardt, Tina
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How Biden Can Tackle the Climate Crisis
Joe Biden has promised to ensure climate justice, but will his administration rise to the challenge? BY TINA GERHARDT With the Biden Administration...
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Taking Aim at Gun Violence
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Johnson, Sharon
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TAKING AIM AT
GUN VIOLENCE
There is much that the new administrationcan do to lessen the carnage. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were elected with the most ambitious gun...
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Q: How Should Biden Address Racial Injustice?
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Brown, Nadia E.; Powell, Kevin
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Q: How Should Biden Address Racial Injustice? NADIA E. BROWN Associate professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University The Biden-Harris Administration owes a...
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A Chance for New Beginnings
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Goodman, James
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A Chance for New Beginnings
What Joe Biden could do to bring humanity and good sense to U.S. immigration policy. BY JAMES GOODMAN Stopping construction of the border wall, as President Joe...
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Shelter from the Storm
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Endicott, Marisa
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Shelter
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Storm How the new administration can tackle the nation’s housing crisis. BY MARISA ENDICOTT Heidi Breaux didn’t want to send her two daughters back to school. Her...
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Twenty Years of Failing the Schools
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Ravitch, Diane
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Twenty Years ofFailing the Schools BY DIANE RAVITCH PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN will have his work cut out in repairing the damage done to U.S. education caused by Donald Trump and his one-time...
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Biden's Challenge on Race
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Gilmore, Brian
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Biden’s Challengeon Race I n his recently released posthumous autobiography, I Came As a Shadow, longtime Georgetown University basketball coach John Thompson recalls one of the many times when...
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Book Excerpts
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Service with a Smile
A retail worker learns to .ght for her rights.
BY SARAH JAFFE Ann Marie Reinhart didn’t intend to spend half her life working in retail. It just sort of happened that...
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'Go to Where the Silence Is'
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Stockwell, Norman
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Norman Stockwell is publisher of The Progrressive. Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, an award-winning daily news program now airing on more than 1,500 public and...
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Books
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Apocalypse Forever BY BILL LUEDERS Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book on scientific responses to environmental crises is in many ways even more frightening than her last, as difficult as that is to...
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America's Pep Talk
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Farsad, Negin
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AMERICA’S PEP TALK
A ll right, America, this is your pep talk. It’s the bottom of the ninth and the bases are loaded. Is that when baseball coaches give pep talks? I need to rewatch A League of...
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A Miracle Worth Repeating
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Higgins, Maeve
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A MIRACLE WORTH REPEATING
O n December 21, Clive and Oneita Thompson, a married couple from Jamaica, walked free after more than two years of taking sanctuary in a Philadelphia church....
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College Athletes in the Petri Dish
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Zirin, Dave
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COLLEGE ATHLETES IN THE PETRI DISH
A groundbreaking study in September of student athletes who had tested positive for COVID-19 at Ohio State University determined that 30 percent had...
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Poems
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Sanderson, Lauren
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All My Friends Have Rent and Heartbreak Things are bad and yet already I’ve cracked
A window, run the bath & ground the beans.
Through the window, beams run in & bathe the ground.
Sunny...
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Lord of the Flies, Revisited
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Hightower, Jim
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LORD OF THE FLIES, REVISITED
M any of us have read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in high school—and it’s still being taught. The 1954 novel depicts the gradual descent into barbaric...
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