The Progressive Magazine: July 2009

July 2009

Volume 73, Number 7

In This Issue

Editor's Note

Letters

Comment A Bankrupt Move

Columns

Eduardo Galeano wonders why justice is blind in one eye.

Dave Zirin tackles the great Jim Brown.

Matthew Rothschild tracks the FBI infiltration of an Iowa City protest group.

On the Line

Cover

A Just Cause ≠ A Just War Howard Zinn

Features

Off on Vacation Elizabeth DiNovella

Gandhi's Grandson Amitabh Pal

The scion of the global icon carries on the family tradition.

A Literary Bust in Jerusalem Matthew Rothschild

Israeli security forces disrupt a Palestinian book festival.

Don’t Ask Permission Representative Keith Ellison

Our Progressive Vision Representative Dennis Kucinich

We've Got the Power Dolores Huerta

Interview

Representative Marcy Kaptur Ruth Conniff

"The people who helped elect President Obama have to help him even more now," says the senior-most woman in Congress. "Because he's in with a lot of barracudas."

Culture

Poem Frederick Foote

Will Durst says Dick Cheney and torture are redundant.

Books Richard Greenwald reviews The Woman Behind the New Deal, by Kirstin Downey.

Jim Hightower traces the roots of genuine populism.

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