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February
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 Vol. 088 Issue 001 (February 1 2024)
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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
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE T he Champagne bottles ringing in the new year weren’t even dry yet when the mainstream media’s horse-race coverage of the 2024 presidential election was off...
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Comment
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Stockwell, Norman
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COMMENT by NORMAN STOCKWELL
TAKING DONALD TRUMP ‘LITERALLY AND SERIOUSLY’ We ignore the GOP front-runner’s blatant dictatorial comments at our own peril. L iz Cheney, former Republican U.S....
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Further Comment
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Brinks, L.
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FURTHER COMMENT by L. BRINKS
WHAT’S AT STAKE FOR THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY F amilies in the transgender community are readying themselves for a heated 2024 presidential election. Transgender...
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No Comment
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Promises to Keep Kash Patel, a far-right ideologue who served as an adviser on Donald Trump’s National Security Council and is now under consideration for the job of CIA director should the...
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Letters
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LETTERS
General Praise I can’t always [do it], but I read the entire latest issue of The Progressive— what a great publication. Your editorial (“Comment: Our View of An Eye for an Eye,”...
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Blast From The Past
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
Fred Warner Neal was a professor of international relations at Claremont Graduate University in California.
He was also a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal...
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On The Line
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Barre, Wayan
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POINTE-AU-CHIEN IS NOT DEAD Southern Louisiana and its residents are highly vulnerable to climate change. The Pointe-auChien Indian Tribe, a French-speaking Native American community of 850...
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Middle America
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF
WHAT VENOMOUS GOP ATTACKS
ON IMMIGRANTS REALLY MEAN
D onald Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign by attacking immi grants. “They’re bringing...
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Smart Ass Cripple
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME . . . OR NOT
L ast summer, on a sunny Sunday, I went to a baseball game at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. All in all, it was a fine day....
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Work Won't Love You Back
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Jaffe, Sarah
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WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE
WHEN WORKERS DECIDE WHAT TO MAKE
T he protesters outside of Google’s San Francisco office on December 14, 2023, draped themselves in white sheets with...
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First Things First
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LUEDERS, BILL
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FIRST THINGS FIRST by BILL LUEDERS
TRUMP’S FREE SPEECH RIGHTS ARE NOT ABSOLUTE
A t a March 2016 campaign rally for Donald Trump in Louisville, Kentucky, three people protesting the event were...
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First-Person Singular
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Miller, Rann
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Remembering King’s Anti-War and Anti-Capitalist Legacy The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His father, inspired by a visit to...
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An Uphill Race to Save Democracy
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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AN UPHILL
RACE
TO SAVE
DEMOCRACY
Democrats could lose
control of the Senate in 2024,
making House races crucial.
BY JOHN NICHOLS L ucas Kunce could well determine the fate and...
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How Long Can Donald Trump Evade Justice?
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Blum, Bill
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How Long Can Donald Trump Evade Justice? With help from the Supreme Court and an election-year calendar, the former President may slip through the cracks. BY BILL BLUM D onald J. Trump...
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Breaking the Barriers
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Ervin, Mike
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Breaking the Barriers An interview with Tom Harkin, former Senator from Iowa. BY MIKE ERVIN T om Harkin retired from the U.S. Congress in 2015 after deciding not to seek a sixth term as a...
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After the (White) Gold Rush
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Rayno, Amelia
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After the
(White)
Gold Rush
The global push for electric vehicles could have devastating consequences for Argentina’s Indigenous communities. STORY AND PHOTOS BY AMELIA RAYNO U nder the...
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The Two Biggest Words Behind Climate Change
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Gerhardt, Tina
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The Two Biggest Words
Behind Climate Change
Finally, the words “fossil fuels” were officially linked to global heating at COP 28. BY TINA GERHARDT I f the recent United Nations climate...
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Protecting the 'Firewall of Democracy'
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Stockwell, Norman
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Protecting the
‘Firewall of Democracy’
Israel’s war in Gaza has killed
more journalists in a shorter time period
than any other war.
BY NORMAN STOCKWELL
A s this issue of The...
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One Question
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ONE QUESTION
NORMAN SOLOMON National director of RootsAction and author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine The polling numbers for Biden vs....
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Refusing to Fall in Line
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Badawi, Samer
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Refusing to Fall in Line
Biden’s complicity in Israel’s war is driving
many Muslim and Arab Americans to withdraw their support.
BY SAMER BADAWI W hen they issued the Port Huron...
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Weaponizing San Francisco
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Weaponizing
A reactionary movement is manipulating urban crises for political gain. BY CHRISTOPHER D. COOK D espite the apocalyptic stories you may have heard from Fox News, the New York...
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Don't Discount the Nurses
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Johnson, Sharon
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Don’t Discount the Nurses
Health care unions could be one of
President Biden’s most important allies
in the battle to save the nation.
BY SHARON JOHNSON L ate last year, when most...
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Smoking Gun
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Recent polls show the two likely major-party contenders for President in a dead heat,
with some giving Donald Trump a slight edge over Joe Biden. That’s all the more baffling if you look at the...
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Interview With Heather Cox Richardson
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Brant, Michaela
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INTERVIEW
Seeing the
Larger Picture
An interview with historian
Heather Cox Richardson.
BY MICHAELA BRANT H eather Cox Richardson is a professor of history at Boston College and...
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Book Excerpt
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BOOK EXCERPT
Where We Stand
If Trump were to win re-election, the damage to republican institutions and the national interest might well be irreparable. BY RICHARD SLOTKIN I n his poem...
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Book Reviews
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BOOKS
The End of the Line? BY BILL LUEDERS Writing in 1956, the nationally syndicated columnist James Reston reflected on the enduring power of whistle-stop train campaigns to connect...
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Hemming and Hawing
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD
TURNING AI PANIC INTO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE
I f last year left me with one question, it was this: How much should I panic about artificial intelligence?...
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Edge Of Sports
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN
DESANTIS, BOOK BANS, AND SHAMEFUL LEGACY
B ook banning has become a key plank of GOP politicians. The epicenter of this effort is Republican Gov ernor Ron...
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Poems
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Powell, Gregory
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TWO SONNETS by GREGORY POWELL
“Combing My Father’s Hair”
For Franklin Powell Sr. (a/k/a Red) Posting Up between buckshot & paternal bloom. I stand behind our kitchen chair. Where Dad is...
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Vox Populist
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER
FORGET MILLIONAIRES—A FEW BILLIONAIRES ARE STEALING OUR COUNTRY I n the serious business of politics, a little humor can be your best friend. I saw its impact...
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