The Progressive Magazine: April 2011
Volume 75, Number 4
In This Issue
Editor's Note
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Letters
Comment What's at Stake for Workers
On the Line
Columns
Ruth Conniff describes how Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker sparked a prairie fire.
Terry Tempest Williams identifies the moment she became a feminist.
Features
The New Assault on Abortion Rights Jessica Valenti
State by state, Republicans blast away.
My Life on Death Row Wilbert Rideau
I was like a head of cabbage in a garden.
Suspension Trap Anna Louie Sussman
Obama's reform is not kicking in soon enough.
Interview
David Sedaris Carl Kozlowski
"If I can have a writing career, anyone can," says the humorist.
Culture
China's Underground Historian Brian Awehali.
Poem David Wagoner.
Will Durst draws up a revenue-making strategy for the feds.
Dave Zirin cheers the Packers for their support of labor rights.
Books Amitabh Pal reviews 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism, by Ha-Joon Chang.
Jim Hightower crashes a Koch party.
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CURRENT ISSUE: JUNE 2012
Cecile Richards
| "Millions of women are counting on us for care. And if we're gone, there's no one else there," says the head of Planned Parenthood.
What's at Stake in Wisconsin
Much more than Scott Walker's future hangs in the balance.
The Mother of Midwifery
Eleanor J. Bader | Ina May Gaskin has delivered more than 1,200 babies and revolutionized the field.
Scott Walker, the Monster.
See more at http://www.zinasaunders.com -- On June 5th, the voters of Wisconsin will decide whether to recall Scott Walker, the monster created by an unholy alliance between the radical right and big business, who has made attacking unions the hallmark of his administration. Cover for The Progressive magazine June 2012: http://www.progressive.org
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