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 Vol. 085 Issue 003 (July 1 2021)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Bringing About Progressive Change
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EDITOR’S NOTE BRINGING ABOUT PROGRESSIVE CHANGE R eese Erlich was a journalist who traveled the world with a driving sense of curiosity, filing dispatches for various news outlets. His first...
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If You Build It, We Will Thrive
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Fulton, Henry Cisneros and William
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IF YOU BUILD IT, WE WILL THRIVE
G ray and boring. Stolid and unexciting. These words are sometimes used to refer to infrastructure. The prefix “infra” derives from the Latin word for “under”...
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End the Pandemic of Ignorance
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LUEDERS, BILL
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END THE PANDEMIC OF IGNORANCE
T here is a pandemic raging across the United States and throughout the world. It is deadly. It is pernicious. It has already killed countless people and it will...
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LETTERS
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LETTERS Till Kingdom Come Helen Christophi’s great report, “For Christ’s Sake,” in the April/May issue re vealed the insidious attempts of Leonard Leo’s network to weaken and...
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
Thirty-five years ago, the world was shocked and frightened by news of a huge nuclear disaster in the remote Ukrainian city of Chernobyl. Writing in “Comment” in the June...
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Chicago's Long Fight Against Killer Cops
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Cynic, Aaron
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CHICAGO’S LONG FIGHT AGAINST KILLER COPS
There are so many names: Flint Farmer, Rekia Boyd, Laquan McDonald, Dakota Bright, Ronald Johnson, Quintonio LeGrier, Bettie Jones, Harith Augustus, Adam...
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Joe Biden's Progressive Presidency
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Conniff, Ruth
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JOE BIDEN’S PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENCY
P resident Joe Biden’s historic $4 trillion economic agenda, the likes of which the United States hasn’t seen since Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, is...
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Defund the Nursing Homes
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Ervin, Mike
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DEFUND THE NURSING HOMES
T here’s one good thing I can say about the pandemic: It has made the obvious, well, obvious. I’m grateful for that. The media have given a lot of coverage to how...
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Unqualified Madness
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UNQUALIFIED MADNESS
For decades, the legal construct of qualified immunity has allowed law enforcement officers and others to escape consequences for serious misconduct. It holds that officials...
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Saving the Postal Service
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LUEDERS, BILL
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A cross the street from the Wisconsin state capitol and a few doors down from the offices of The Progressive is a post office named in honor of the magazine’s founder, Robert La Follette. A sign...
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Of Human Bondage
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Bader, Eleanor J.
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Of Human Bondage Domestic workers have been
‘told they were slaves and treated accordingly.’
BY ELEANOR J. BADER The petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reads like...
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Fixing Their Mistakes
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Law, Victoria
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A Conviction Integrity Unit gives the justice system one more chance to get it right. In October 2000, Sarah Pender, then twenty-one, was living with her boyfriend, Richard Hull, whom she had met...
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What's Happening in Illinois
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Albano, Teresa
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What’s Happening in Illinois
The state is becoming a showcase of progressive legislation.
BY TERESA ALBANO I llinois made national headlines this year, and not for corruption or another...
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Money for the People
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Thomhave, Kalena
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Money for
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Local guaranteed-income pilot programs are spreading across the country. BY KALENA THOMHAVE In February 2021, the Stockton Economic Empowerment...
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The Triumph of Community Schools
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Bryant, Jeff
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The Triumph ofCommunity Schools Biden’s support suggests an end to government policies that blame teachers for low test scores. BY JEFF BRYANT S how me your budget, the saying goes, and I’ll...
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Q: What Can We Do to Curb Gun Violence?
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Smyth, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Pamela Haag, and Frank
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Q: What Can We Do to Curb Gun Violence? ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ Historian, activist, and author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment (City Lights Publishers, 2018). In brief: a...
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A Letter to My Fellow Black Chefs
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Mitchell, Malcolm James
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A Letter to
My Fellow
Black Chefs
In 1962, my great-uncle James Baldwin wrote an essay published in The Progressive titled, “A Letter to My Nephew.” Written to my father, it helped him...
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Flirting with Disaster
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Loving, Joy
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Flirting with Disaster A half-century ago, Hurricane Camille ravaged the town where I grew up. Is it a harbinger of things to come? BY JOY LOVING Joy Loving is a writer and...
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The Spirit of the Antichrist
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Hendricks, Obery M. Jr.
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The Spirit of the Antichrist
How the evangelical right has come to turn against what Jesus stood for. BY OBERY M. HENDRICKS JR. W e have seen how seriously so many of America’s early...
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The Problems and the Promise
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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The Problems and the Promise An interview with activist and Ohio Congressional candidate Nina Turner. BY JOHN NICHOLS A former Cleveland city council member and Ohio state legislator, Nina...
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The Truth About Slavery
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Gilmore, Brian
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The Truth About Slavery BY BRIAN GILMORE In the prologue to his new book, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, writer-poet Clint Smith reveals its...
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The White Right to Bear Arms
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Leanza, Emilio
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The White Right to Bear Arms BY EMILIO LEANZA When Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two people and wound ed a third with an assault rifle on the night of August 25, 2020, the police in...
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To Breed or Not to Breed
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Farsad, Negin
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TO BREED OR NOT TO BREED
W ith the pandemic running out of steam in the United States, a bunch of really aggravating existential questions are now hovering in the air, just above your vaccine...
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Hobbling Away to Hide
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Higgins, Maeve
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HOBBLING AWAY TO HIDE
“E very now and then, it is true, a man rises unexpectedly in our midst like a pine tree, and looks savagely at us, and sends us hobbling away in great floods to hide in...
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Turning Against Trans Student Athletes
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Zirin, Dave
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TURNING AGAINST TRANS STUDENT ATHLETES
I n the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly built herself a massive public platform by being the woman who opposed the women’s liberation movement. She was feted and...
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Traffic Stop: Internal Conversations of a Black Man
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Hinton, Le
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TRAFFIC STOP: INTERNAL CONVERSATIONS OF A BLACK MAN Do you have any weapons in the vehicle? No. [But you have enough for both of us. Your Glock of choice (black and menacing), pepper spray,...
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Going Big Can Secure the Future
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Hightower, Jim
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GOING BIG CAN SECURE THE FUTURE
I t’s time for the United States to go back to the future—a future of true greatness created by a people united in building a strong nation for the common good....
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