The Progressive Magazine: February 2010
Volume 74, Number 2
In This Issue
Editor's Note
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Letters
Comment Beware Anti-Muslim Hysteria
On the Line
Columns
Barbara Ehrenreich dissects the cancer-industrial complex.
Terry Tempest Williams sets the table for six.
Ruth Conniff grades Obama’s visit to a school.
Michael Feldman gets his hands on a secret Republican health care memo.
Mikhail Gorbachev says capitalism needs its own Perestroika.
Cover
Taking Tea Partiers Seriously Chip Berlet
Calling them stupid and crazy gets us nowhere.
Features
Bibi and the Settlers Reese Erlich
Netanyahu is actually on their side.
Beyond the Green Niche Jason Mark
Why aren’t more people buying green?
Interview
Amy Ray Andrea Lewis
“Just pick one little thing and do it, and know that it affects everything,” says the Indigo Girls singer.
Poem Jon Andersen
Culture
A Voice from Senegal: Youssou N’Dour Matt Pascarella
The popular singer harnesses the transformative power of music.
Will Durst gives Obama a first quarter report card.
Dave Zirin salutes Andrea Lewis.
Books
Jeff Chang reviews 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About, by Joshua Clover.
Jim Hightower lists six things you can do.
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