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 Vol. 088 Issue 002 (April 1 2024)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Editor's Note
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WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW, AND WHY
A s I write this, we find ourselves at a critical point in both domestic and international affairs. At home, President Joe Biden has laid out the case for his...
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Comment
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LUEDERS, BILL
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GET OUT THE VOTE, AND GET TO WORK
We must do a better job getting nonvoters out to the polls this November. Bill Lueders, the former editor and now editor-at-large of The Progressive, is a...
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Further Comment
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Cook, Jonathan
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WHY THE FATES OF GAZA AND JULIAN ASSANGE ARE SEALED TOGETHER T wo legal cases posing globe-spanning threats to our most basic freedoms unfolded separately in the United Kingdom and the...
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No Comment
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Dude Wants His Horns Back Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman who served twenty-seven months in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, is demanding that authorities...
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Letters
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General Good Words I will be donating more money in February. I love helping The Progressive magazine grow. —Zack Smith, via email The December 2023/January 2024 issue of The Progressive, all...
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Blast from the Past
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BLAST FROM THE PAST On July 4, 1924, U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. announced he was throwing his hat in the ring
as a third-party candidate for President under the banner of a newly...
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Smoking Gun
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Perhaps no single piece of legislation has advanced the cause of racial equality in the United States more than the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which banned discriminatory Jim Crow voting laws and...
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On the Line
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Roberts, Zach D.
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THE OSAGE NATION v. THE KOCH BROTHERS
No one becomes a billionaire without victims. Charles and David Koch, commonly known as the Koch brothers before the latter died in 2019, were no different....
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Middle America
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Conniff, Ruth
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A MILLIONAIRE’S BANKRUPT SENATE RUN
I n mid-February, millionaire Eric Hovde made a much-anticipated announcement that he intends to challenge incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin of...
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Smart Ass Cripple
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Ervin, Mike
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WHEN WORKER INSECURITY IS A MUST
I am about to break a promise I made to myself. Long ago, I made a solemn vow (and sealed it with a pinkie swear) that I would never, ever, in a million...
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Work Won't Love You Back
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Jaffe, Sarah
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COMING APART AT THE SEAMS
T he political star of former Republican Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley rose in 2010, when she positioned herself as a smart, modern alternative to the...
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First Things First
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LUEDERS, BILL
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CAMPUS SPEECH IS UNDER FIRE
I t wasn’t too long ago that some of the loudest voices on the right were screaming bloody murder about the suppression of speech on college campuses. One oft-cited...
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One Question
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KATE JASTRAM Director of policy and advocacy at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies Climate justice doesn’t begin or end at the border. But as the climate crisis devastates...
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Lessons from the Progressive Campaign of 1924
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Drake, Richard
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Lessons from
the Progressive
Campaign
of 1924
The challenges of today are eerily similar
to those highlighted by Robert M. La Follette
100 years ago.
BY RICHARD DRAKE A t sixty-nine and...
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The Open-Air Detention Camps of San Diego
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Villalona, Claudia
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The Open-Air
Detention Camps
of San Diego
Border Patrol is keeping asylum seekers stranded in the desert, violating the agency’s own standards. BY CLAUDIA VILLALONA D riving into Jacumba...
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Starting Over with Nothing but Hope
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Davis, Robert
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Starting Over
with Nothing but
HOPE
New immigrants in Denver
face a steep climb to stability
as services fall short in the face
of immense demand.
BY ROBERT DAVIS
PHOTOS BY GILES...
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Living in the Plume
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Wilson, Richelle
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LIVING IN THE PLUME
A seemingly idyllic place to raise a family turns into a nightmare for Wisconsin residents whose water supply was contaminated by PFAS. BY RICHELLE WILSON
PHOTOS BY BONNIE...
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The Worst Gerrymandered Maps in the Nation Have Fallen
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Nelson, Thomas M.
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The Worst
Gerrymandered
Have Fallen After a dozen years and multiple court challenges, the voters of Wisconsin now have a chance to elect officials that match the state. BY THOMAS M....
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What’s Next on the Supreme Court’s Chopping Block?
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Graves, Lisa
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What’s Next on the
Supreme Court’s
Chopping Block?
Prodded by Charles Koch, John Roberts’s chaos court is poised to sabotage the health and safety of Americans. BY LISA GRAVES O ver...
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Criminalizing Political Dissent
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Badawi, Samer
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Criminalizing Political Dissent U.S. lawmakers aim to further punish Americans exercising their First Amendment right to boycott. BY SAMER BADAWI O n February 13, the U.S. House of...
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First-Person Singular
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Kelly, Kathy
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Israel Is Assaulting Hospitals in Gaza with Full U.S. Support Many decades ago, in Chicago, I operated the telephone switchboard at a small hospital called Forkosh Memorial. The console of coils...
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Interview with Senator Bernie Sanders
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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INTERVIEW The Kind of World We Want to See
An interview with Senator Bernie Sanders.
BY JOHN NICHOLS B ernie Sanders has made plenty of history as a democratic socialist mayor of...
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Book Excerpt
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Masciotra, David
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The Confederacy Stronghold of Northern Illinois In the exurbs, Americans are walking, driving, and living alone.
The politics of escape has left them isolated and increasingly paranoid.
BY...
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Book Reviews
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How LSD Got a Bad Rap BY BILL LUEDERS In a 1994 interview first published in 2016, John Ehrlichman, formerly President Richard Nixon’s top adviser on domestic politics, made a jaw-dropping...
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Once Upon a Time in America
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Ali, Wajahat
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BIDEN IS VERY OLD AND OUT OF TOUCH,
AND HERE’S WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR HIM
B y now, you might have seen headlines about President Joe Biden’s advanced age as being one of the many reasons...
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Edge of Sports
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Zirin, Dave
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HOLD ON, NOT SO SWIFT
P op superstar Taylor Swift wants young people to vote. Her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, encourages people to get vaccinated. In a...
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The Story of Hammers
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Levy, Kathryn
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The Story of Hammers And if I forget thee, O Jerusalem . . . —Psalm 137 It’s not a conflict it’s an occupation it’s the dream of my father and the mutilated life of his father it is wailing at...
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Vox Populist
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Hightower, Jim
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IS ICARUS THE SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE?
A lthough the sun is an essential life force, we need to protect ourselves from its relentless glare. Sunglasses? Check. Beach umbrella? Check. Tinted...
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