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 Vol. 088 Issue 005 (October 10 2024)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 'Co-Governing' Our Future
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Tempus, Alexandra
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EDITOR’S NOTE
‘CO-GOVERNING’ OUR FUTURE
In the days surrounding what may be the only 2024 presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the latter...
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Cutie Patootie
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Galleymore, Isabel
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J.D. VANCE DOESN’T KNOW JACK
Tall as timber, Great Aunt Lizzie
Wrapped in rugs against the cold
Looking out across the mountains
To the valleys of my soul
From Si Kahn’s song “Luray Women.” ©...
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AI and the Quest for Eternal Vigilance
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Meinrath, Sascha D.
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AI AND THE QUEST FOR ETERNAL VIGILANCE
Sascha D. Meinrath is the Palmer Chair in Telecommunications, director of the X-Lab at Penn State University, and co-author of the forthcoming book...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT
The Greed Book
Recent financial disclosures show Donald Trump has received $300,000 in royalty payments for God Bless the U.S.A., a $60 Bible he is hawking along with singer Lee...
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Letters to the Editor
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Stop the Killing!
Re: “On the Line: Drawing Under Occupation” (August/September 2024), the barbarism and terrorism of Israel and the United States increases exponentially....
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Blast from the Past
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BLAST FROM THE PAST In 1924, a new Progressive Party was born. With about as much time to build a national political campaign as the 2024 Democratic contenders have had, Robert M. La Follette ran...
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The Appeal of Tim Walz's Joyful, Midwestern Populism
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Conniff, Ruth
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TIM WALZ’S JOYFUL, MIDWESTERN POPULISM
RUTH CONNIFF
is editor-at-large for The Progressive and editor-inchief of the state news website, the Wisconsin Examiner. Her book, Milked: How an American...
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The Worst Kind of Corporate Greed
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Ervin, Mike
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THE WORST KIND OF CORPORATE GREED
MIKE ERVIN,
a writer and disability
rights activist living
in Chicago, blogs at
Smart Ass Cripple,
“expressing pain
through sarcasm
since 2010,” and
writes...
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A New Version of the Same Old Story
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Jaffe, Sarah
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A NEW VERSION OF THE SAME OLD STORY
SARAH JAFFE
is a regular contributor to
The Progressive
covering labor, economic justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture. Her most recent...
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When Innocence Is No Defense
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LUEDERS, BILL
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WHEN INNOCENCE IS NO DEFENSE
BILL LUEDERS, former editor and now editor-at-large of The Progressive, is a writer in Madison, Wisconsin.
The little girl referred to in court papers as “B.B.” was...
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'Who Keeps Us Safe? We Keep Us Safe'
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Gençer, Kerem
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‘WHO KEEPS US SAFE? WE KEEP US SAFE’
Anti-imperialists, anarchists, and conscientious citizens united for a decentralized demonstration of solidarity with the people of Gaza during the Democratic...
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Kamala Harris Shoves Immigrants Under the (Campaign) Bus
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Miller, Anna Lekas
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Kamala Harris Shoves Immigrants
Under the (Campaign) Bus
The historic, first-generation candidate isn’t fighting Trump on immigration policy. She’s echoing him.
BY ANNA LEKAS MILLER
Anna Lekas...
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Immigration, By the Numbers
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Gun, Smoking
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IMMIGRATION, BY THE NUMBERS
Former President Donald Trump says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”
and spreading “misery, crime, poverty, disease, and destruction to communities...
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Can Tim Walz Help Democrats Course-Correct on Education?
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Lahm, Sarah
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Can Tim Walz Help Democrats
Course-Correct on Education?
The Harris campaign hinges its progressive bona fides on the Minnesota governor’s record of pro-child policy.
BY SARAH LAHM
On August 19,...
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Why Trump Can't Disavow His Support for Project 2025
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Cunningham, Maurice
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Why Trump Can’t Disavow His Support for Project 2025
The rightwing playbook’s plans for public schools are already in place or rolling out.
BY MAURICE CUNNINGHAM
Former President Donald Trump...
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One Question
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How Can We Get Big Money Out of Politics?
TIFFANY MULLER
President of End Citizens United and Let America Vote
We must elect leaders who are committed to bold,
decisive action on democracy...
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Fightin' Bob La Follette's 1924 Presidential Campaign
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Konopacki, Mike
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Fightin’ Bob La Follette’s 1924 Presidential Campaign STORY AND ART BY MIKE...
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Building Democracy from the Ground Up
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VanHise, James L.
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Building Democracy from the Ground Up
A group empowering grassroots activists across North Carolina could help transform the rural political landscape.
BY JAMES L. VANHISE
In 2015, Dreama...
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Trump's Dark Vision for America
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LUEDERS, BILL
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Trump’s Dark Vision for America
A look at some of what the former President says he’ll do if he returns to power.
BY BILL LUEDERS
While no sensible person would take Donald Trump at his word...
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Israel Could Still Decide the Election
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Badawi, Samer
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Israel Could
Still Decide
the Election
Ignoring the Uncommitted National Movement’s demands won’t win any votes in swing states like Michigan.
BY SAMER BADAWI
The more time passes since...
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The Speech Not Given
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Romman, Ruwa
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FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR by The Speech RUWA ROMMAN Not Given Ruwa Romman is a thirty-one-year-old Georgia state representative for House District 97. She was first elected to office in November...
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John Roberts and the Second Coming of Dred Scott
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Blum, Bill
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John Roberts
and the
Second Coming
of Dred Scott
The Court’s ruling on presidential immunity
in Trump v. United States
may well be its worst since 1857.
BY BILL BLUM
The fix was in even...
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Chasing the Rainbow Coalition
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Masciotra, David
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Chasing the
Rainbow
Coalition
How Jesse Jackson’s groundbreaking
1988 presidential campaign
shaped the 2024 election.
BY DAVID MASCIOTRA
The 1980s were politically bleak. Ronald Reagan won...
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Who's Going to Defend Our Communities Against Billionaire Wealth Extractors?
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Stockwell, Norman
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Who’s Going to Defend Our Communities
Against Billionaire Wealth Extractors?
An interview with Chuck Collins.
BY NORMAN STOCKWELL
Chuck Collins is the director of the Program on Inequality and...
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A Long, Hot Summer Lockdown
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Law, Victoria
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A Long, Hot Summer Lockdown The mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic in U.S. prisons caused a nightmarish landscape of disease and death. Excerpted from the book Corridors of Contagion: How...
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Book Reviews
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The One Who Paved the Way BY JOHN NICHOLS When Vice President Kamala Harris and I have spoken in the past about her political influences, one name always comes up: Shirley Chisholm. Harris...
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Democrats Must Confront an Inconvenient Genocide
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Ali, Wajahat
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DEMOCRATS MUST CONFRONT
AN INCONVENIENT GENOCIDE
WAJAHAT ALI
edits “The Left Hook”
on Substack. He is
a public speaker,
recovering attorney,
and a tired dad of
three cute kids.
His first...
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The Energy Was Here the Whole Time!
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Farsad, Negin
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THE ENERGY WAS HERE THE WHOLE TIME!
NEGIN FARSAD
(@NeginFarsad) is the host of the political comedy podcast Fake the Nation and author of the book
How to Make White
People Laugh.
The drudgery...
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Football as a Tool for Good?
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Zirin, Dave
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FOOTBALL AS A TOOL FOR GOOD?
DAVE ZIRIN
writes about sports
for The Nation
and The Progressive
and hosts the Edge
of Sports podcast
and Edge of Sports
with Dave Zirin
on The Real News...
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WORLD'S END
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Asekoff, L.S.
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WORLD’S END One of those days when everyone’s Failing the Turing test. The clockwork droids on rewind & The chatbots at it again— Nobody knows what to make of me. I’m glue. I’m breen. I’m plaid....
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Vox Populist
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Hightower, Jim
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THE RIGHTWING ATTACK ON SOCIAL SECURITY IS UN-AMERICAN Rightwing ideologues are mounting a three-pronged fraud to delegitimize Social Security, slash its benefits, then— zzzzzt—kill...
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