The Progressive Magazine: April 2011

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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