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IssueVol. 085 Issue 001 (February 1 2021)
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Paid articleA Time to Fight
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...
Paid articleRepairing the Breach
II, William J. Barber
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...
Paid articleGive Biden a Push
LUEDERS, BILL
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...
Paid articleNo Comment
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,...
Paid articleLetters
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...
Paid articleBlasr from the Past
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...
Paid articleFarmwork in the Era of COVID-19
Bacon, David
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...
Paid articleBiden's Low Priority, Our High Hopes
Ervin, Mike
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...
Paid articleHow We Got Here
Conniff, Ruth
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...
Paid articleSay Their Names
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...
Paid articleWhy Biden Needs to Go Bold
NICHOLS, JOHN
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...
Paid articleToward a More Equal Union
Pizzigati, Sam
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...
Paid articleVaccinate This!
Shure, Natalie
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...
Paid articleThe U.S. War Machine: Now Under New Management
BENJAMIN, MEDEA; Davies, Nicolas J.S.
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...
Paid articleHow Biden Can Tackle the Climate Crisis
Gerhardt, Tina
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...
Paid articleTaking Aim at Gun Violence
Johnson, Sharon
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...
Paid articleQ: How Should Biden Address Racial Injustice?
Brown, Nadia E.; Powell, Kevin
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...
Paid articleA Chance for New Beginnings
Goodman, James
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...
Paid articleShelter from the Storm
Endicott, Marisa
Shelter from the 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...
Paid articleTwenty Years of Failing the Schools
Ravitch, Diane
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...
Paid articleBiden's Challenge on Race
Gilmore, Brian
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...
Paid articleBook Excerpts
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...
Paid article'Go to Where the Silence Is'
Stockwell, Norman
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...
Paid articleBooks
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...
Paid articleAmerica's Pep Talk
Farsad, Negin
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...
Paid articleA Miracle Worth Repeating
Higgins, Maeve
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....
Paid articleCollege Athletes in the Petri Dish
Zirin, Dave
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...
Paid articlePoems
Sanderson, Lauren
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...
Paid articleLord of the Flies, Revisited
Hightower, Jim
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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