The Progressive - 2021
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Librarians to the Defense: Groupsform to fight a conservative-led attack on libraries'efforts to promote social justice.
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DEFUND THE NURSING HOMES.(hgh casualties of covid-19 pandemic reveal the vulnerability of people in nursing homes)
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COLLEGE ATHLETES IN THE PETRI DISH.
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Reign of Tearers.(NO COMMENT)(Bigelow High School, Arkansas yearbook backlash)
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OUTLAWING THE TRUTH: Republicans want students to learn a mythological version of U.S. history because the reality of the past threatens their power in the present.
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THE PROGRESSIVE MEDIA PROJECT: Our mission... to DIVERSIFY and DEMOCRATIZE media.
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Complaints Allege Detention Abuse.
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Loaded for Reform.(LETTERS)
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Convicting Killer Cops Isn't Enough: The sentencing of George Floyd's killer doesn't address deeper, systemic issues in policing.
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Sex Work Not Victimless.(LETTERS)
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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.(FURTHER COMMENT)(COVID-19, mask mandates, and politics)
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Money for the People: Local guaranteed-income pilot programs are spreading across the country.
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH FACEBOOK.(HEMMING AND HAWING)
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LORD OF THE FLIES, REVISITED.
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HOBBLING AWAY TO HIDE.
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Electing Joe Biden is not enough to ensure a saner and less belligerent foreign policy.
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Helping Small Businesses Survive: There is much that states and communities can do to stop the hurt.
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Fearing Your Neighbors: How law enforcement and Big Tech exploit neighborhood watch technology to create dystopian, digitally gated communities.
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All My Friends Have Rent and Heartbreak.
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A TRANSFORMATIVE TIME FOR WORKERS.(WORK WON'T LOVE YOU BACK)
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TRAFFIC STOP: INTERNAL CONVERSATIONS OF A BLACK MAN.
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Q: What Can We Do to Curb Gun Violence?(ONE QUESTION)(historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Pamela Haag, journalist Frank Smyth)
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The Spirit of the Antichrist: How the evangelical right has come to turn against what Jesus stood for.(excerpt from "Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith")
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THE KU KLUX KLAN INVADES THE NORTH.(BLAST FROM THE PAST)
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The Problem with Private School Vouchers: Harmful programs that redirect funds from public schools to private institutions are spreading rapidly across the country.
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HONDURAS' CLIMATE REFUGEES.(ON THE LINE)
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Now We Know.(NO COMMENT)
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SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL.
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Spreading the Cooperative Idea.
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Acts of Rebel Sanity: Finding ways to navigate the challenges of living on a small planet.
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SAVING CANCER ALLEY: Activists in a polluted stretch of Louisiana continue to fight against new fossil fuel industry developments, despite the pandemic.(ON THE LINE)
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A Tool for Propaganda.(BOOKS)(Paul S. Hirsch's "Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism")
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Amazon and the Pandemic: How the virus that battered the economy was a boon for Jeff Bezos.(BOOK EXCERPT)
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STANDING UP FOR FAIRNESS.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
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Man of Action.(BOOK)
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Say Yes to Compacts.(LETTERS)
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Now They Tell Us.(NO COMMENT)(attorney Sidney Powell's argument against defamation lawsuit for insisting the 2020 election controversies)
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BLINDED BY 'THE EYES OF TEXAS'.(EDGE OF SPORTS)(University of Texas at Austin fight song)
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'Your Face Seems Familiar'.
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Addressing the deep inequalities exposed by COVID-19 will probably prove more elusive than treating the disease.
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Saving the Red Wolf.
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Getting Connected: Municipal networks could prove key to fixing the digital divide across the United States.
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Creating a Powerful, Broad-Based Moral Movement.
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Saving St. James: In the nation's most toxic region, one woman is seeking justice for herself and her overburdened community.(St. James Parish, Sharon Lavigne)
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Welcome to Refugee High: A new book gives a portrait of students' lives at one of Chicago's most diverse high schools during Trump's anti-immigrant campaign.(BOOK EXCERPT)
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Happy Days.(NO COMMENT)(Forbes magazine's annual ranking of billionaires)
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The Importance of Independent Media: An interview with broadcaster and activist Laura Flanders.
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The Secret Scarer.
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The Armies of the Right: Though Trump is gone, the legions of far-right extremists he inspired will continue marching on.
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Q: How Can Activists Organize Against Economic Inequality?(ONE QUESTION)
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Hooray for Higher Ed.
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LETTERS.
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Eric Gill and the Integrity of Work.
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MR. BIDEN, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL.
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NOT TAKING IT TO THE STREETS.(SMART ASS CRIPPLE)
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Power Imbalance Is Recurring Issue.
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The Fight for School Equity: What we need is not to return to "normal" but to shape progressive education policies to take marginalized students into account.
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A Way of Life in Danger: Organic formers face unprecedented challenges.
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WORKERS WANT TO WORK, AND TO GET RESPECT.(VOX POPULIST)
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'There Was No Other Option': A Washington State Indian nation is relocating an entire community to escape the impacts of climate change.
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Now He Tells Us.(NO COMMENT)(senator Rand Paul)
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NO VOTE, NO WORK!(VOX POPULIST)
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'Go to Where the Silence Is': An interview with Amy Goodman on the twenty-fifth anniversary of DEMOCRACY NOW!(INTERVIEW)
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The Worst Decisions of the Roberts Court.(John Roberts)
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Taking a Knee: New book tells the stories of dozens of people who joined Colin Kae per nick's protest Here is one of them.(BOOK EXCERPT)
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SAVING THE POSTAL SERVICE: The battle to protect the future of the U.S. mail system is Winnable.
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Pretzel Logic.(NO COMMENT)(Alabama to relax state rules against the teaching of yoga in schools)
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Of Human Bondage: Domestic workers have been 'told they were slaves and treated accordingly.'.
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The Triumph of Community Schools Biden's support suggests an end to government policies that blame teachers for low test scores.
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NO COMMENT.
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Crack Down on Wealthy Tax-Dodgers.
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NO SPORTS UNTIL WE'RE WELL.(EDGE OF SPORTS)
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Gun Control Success Story.(NO COMMENT)
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Grettings from Progressive ILLINOIS.
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On Becoming the Heroes We Were Waiting For: The Affordable Care Act saved my life. I am one of many health care activists in the United States who wouldn't be here without it.(FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR)
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REFUSING to SERVE: Restaurant workers are rejecting low wages and deteriorating conditions.
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The Movement for Progressive Schools.
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NO COMMENT.
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Anything's Possible.
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How Biden Can Tackle the Climate Crisis: Joe Biden has promised to ensure climate justice, but will his administration rise to the challenge?
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The Movement to Organize Restaurants: I'm a food service worker in New York City; here's why I'm fighting against the chronic low pay and unstable working conditions we've gotten used to.
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Young People Deserve Police-Free Schools.
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NO COMMENT.
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AMERICA'S PEP TALK.
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NO MORE MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD.(MIDDLE AMERICA)
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The Life and Legacy of RBG.
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Facilities Should Restrict Visitation of All Visitors, Except for Certain Compassionate Care Situations.
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Dirty Work, No Clean Hands.(BOOKS)(Eyal Press' "Dirty Work")
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BLAST FROM THE PAST.(James Peter Warbasse)
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Attacking Gun Violence on Many Fronts.
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Truths and Roses: In the spring of 1936, the writer George Orwell planted roses in his garden.(BOOKS)(Orwell's Roses)
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AFTER THE GUNFIRE STOPS: Each mass shooting creates multiple victims, many determined to turn tragedy to hope.
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Taking Back the Supreme Court: Major changes are warranted to save a broken institution.
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Twenty Years of Failing the Schools: To fix education, Biden must not only undo Trump's legacy but reverse two decades of a disastrons reform movement.
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WORKING FOR THAT MINIMUM WAGE.(WORK WON'T LOVE YOU BACK)
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Not Progress Enough.(LETTERS)
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Way to Go!(LETTERS)
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The worst mistake the Democrats could make is to seek the center-again.
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BIDEN'S LOW PRIORITY, OUR HIGH HOPES.
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A Chance for New Beginnings: What Joe Biden could do to bring humanity and good sense to U.S. immigration policy.
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One World, Many Defenders: The urgency of climate change is spurring a broad array of activism.
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Publisher Norman Stockwell replies:.(LETTERS)
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Missed Opportunities.(LETTERS)
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Paying It Forward.(LETTERS)
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AFTER THE STORM: The U.S. far right is at a crossroads.
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There is much that the new administration can do to lessen the carnage.(TAKING AIM AT
GUN VIOLENCE)
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Biden's Challenge on Race.
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'We Should Be Expecting a Lot More of Democracy': An interview with U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin.
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Philadelphia: Spring 2020.
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A SENATOR SEEKS ANSWERS.(Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat of Wisconsin, on new postal service policies)
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WHAT REPUBLICANS BELIEVE.(SMOKING GUN)
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Fair and to the Left.
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Back to School.(LETTERS)
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REPAIRING THE BREACH.
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Antisemitism Meets Transphobia: White nationalists and anti-trans feminists use the same conspiracies to target trans and Jewish folks.
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BEYOND BARS.(campaigns to close down prisons and jails)
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Biden, Democrats Face 'Pivotal Moment': Can they be pushed into doing the right things?
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The White Right to Bear Arms.(The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America)
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The State of Solitary.(solitary confinement in some states)
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DOING IT IN PERSON.(HEMMING AND HAWING)(shopping)
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Break 'Em Up.(LETTERS)
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THE LONE WOLF IN THE HENHOUSE: A Department of Justice counterterrorism expert has deep ties to white supremacist groups.
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Fighting the Eviction Epidemic: Without a federal eviction moratorium in place, organizers are often the last line of defense for vulnerable renters.
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Praise for Schools Package.(LETTERS)
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Abolition Never.
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TO THE BARRICADES!(EDITOR'S NOTE)
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Easing the Burden of Student Loans: With more than forty-three million Americans carrying $1.7 trillion in student loan debt, states are finding new ways to help.
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A Letter to My Fellow Black Chefs.
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RON JOHNSON, AN EMBARRASSING LIABILITY.
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HOW TO FIX THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE.(Congress introduced the Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act that would prohibit the Postal Service from increasing expected delivery times)
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Live and Learn.(NO COMMENT)(rocker Ted Nugent learn the truth about covid-19 after his near death experience)
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Make Schools a Catalyst for Change.
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All in Good Fun.
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Favorite Books of 2021.
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THE PARTY OF FRAUD.(COMMENT)
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Grad Student Union, Yes! Across the country, collective action is working to expand rights For these exploited workers.
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A Message We Must Hear: In Until I Am Free, a wonderful and timely new book on the life of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, author Keisha N. Blain deftly portrays Hamer as a thoughtful and prescient political activist whose message for todays racial justice movements is as powerful as it was more than a half-century ago.
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What's Happening in Illinois: The state is becoming a showcase of progressive legislation.
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THE FAITH OF THE LA FOLLETTES.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
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'Break Through These Shackles': Nancy MacLean on how to stand up to groups like ALEC.
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And You'll Know They Are Christians...
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LETTERS.
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Bold Is Beautiful.(LETTERS)
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Service with a Smile A retail worker learns to fight for her rights.(BOOK EXCERPT)
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NOT DONE WITH TRUMP--YET.(COMMENT)
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Apocalypse Forever.
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FARMWORK IN THE ERA OF COVID-19.
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POEMS.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PROGRESSIVE.
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Dealing with Disaster.(BLAST FROM THE PAST)
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Koch's Campus Free Speech Ploy.(BOOK EXCERPT)
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GIVE BIDEN A PUSH.
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AI Sharpton's Free Pass.(LETTERS)
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Moving the Needle.(LETTERS)
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All Sides but the Truth.(NO COMMENT)
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Funny and True.(LETTERS)
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Guatemala's Failed Promise Twenty-five years after the peace accords that ended the Central American country's civil war, the hope for social justice has dimmed.
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A MIRACLE WORTH REPEATING.
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Till Kingdom Come.(LETTERS)
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Funding the Future: The pandemic has created opportunities for states to level the playing field for marginalized workers.
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It Was Here Just a Minute Ago!(NO COMMENT)(2020 United States presidential election fraud)
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The Case for Decriminalizing Sex Work: Criminalization and taboo are a deadly combination for sex workers.
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HOW WE GOT HERE.
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IMMIGRANT KIDS AREN'T ALL RIGHT.(MAEVE IN AMERICA)
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SEARCHING FOR 'NORMAL': Educators are bracing for an uncertain fall semester.
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What Schools in Minneapolis Are Teaching About Race: Hint: It's not about blaming white people or hating the United States.(Minnesotta)
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THE LOGGERS.(POEMS)
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END THE PANDEMIC OF IGNORANCE.(Senator Ron Johnson shows his ignorance by defending anti-vaccination advocates)
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Victims of Bigotry.
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Our Housing Crisis: The Tucson Tenants Union fights evictions, which have worsened since the beginning of the pandemic.
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FAMILY AFFAIRS.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
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The Heir to Joe McCarthy: Wisconsin's Ron Johnson is following in the footsteps of the disgraced former Senator.
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UNQUALIFIED MADNESS.(SMOKING GUN)(qualified immunity of law enforcement officers)
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The new administration could take plenty of steps to address economic disparity.
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I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar.(BOOKS)
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The Truth About Slavery.(BOOKS)(How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America)
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MY CHOPSTICKS STORY.
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Q: How Should We Respond to the Rise of the Far Right?(ONE QUESTION)
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REFUSING TO LIE, REGARDLESS OF THE LAW.(ban on teaching of critical race theory)
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The New Normal.(NO COMMENT)(shooting in a Washington, D.C. baseball game)
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A TIME TO FIGHT.
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The Plight of an International Student: Those who come to the United States to study face an array of obstacles.
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THE GOP'S PRO-COVID-19 AGENDA.(SMOKING GUN)
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Q: How Should Biden Address Racial Injustice?
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Correction and clarification:.
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UNLOCK THEM UP! In Massachusetts and elsewhere, advocates ate pushing for alternatives to incarceration.
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IF YOU BUILD IT, WE WILL THRIVE.(infrastructure)
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The Problems and the Promise: An interview with activist and Ohio Congressional candidate Nina Turner.(INTERVIEW)
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ODD VIRUS ATTACKS GOP GOVERNORS!
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Eyes on the RISE: One People's Project tracks the boom in the power and might of the far right.
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From Pizzagate to the Capitol Riot: How rightwing media extremism led to the January 6 insurrection.
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How Movements Are Made: Two books bring the history of the civil rights struggle to a modern audience.
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GOING BIG CAN SECURE THE FUTURE.(President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan)
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TheProgressive.
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THE POWER AND PROMISE OF ORGANIZING.(COMMENT)
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THE ENEMY WITHIN: State and local Republican parties have been taken over by white supremacists, conspiracy mongers, and insurrectionists.
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TURNING AGAINST TRANS STUDENT ATHLETES.
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BRINGING ABOUT PROGRESSIVE CHANGE.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
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FOR CHRIST'S SAKE: Leonard Leo's network is trying to reshape the world into the Kingdom of God.
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Live Long and Prosper!(LETTERS)
