The Progressive Magazine: May 2008

May 2008

Volume 72, Number 5

In This Issue

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Edwidge Danticat supports Obama to stir us out of apathy and bring ground-breaking change.

Adolph Reed Jr. detects a con artist who tries to be all things
to all people.

Barbara Ehrenreich asks how much longer can we shop till we drop.

Dave Zirin spotlights the conscience of a linebacker.

Ruth Conniff watches Hillary trying to morph into Hugo.

Winning Isn't Everything by Steve Cobble

Interview Jimmy Carter by Amitabh Pal

Kate Clinton parses the Pope's new list of mortal sins.

Poem Francesco Levato

Elizabeth DiNovella reviews Free Ride: John McCain and the Media, by David Brock and Paul Waldman.

Jim Hightower tells Bush to get a clue.

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