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Educate All Children

Adequate and equitable funding is required for schools to provide qualified teachers, small classes and up-to-date facilities

Barbara Miner

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Prioritize Civil Rights

Democrats need to redress the social and economic inequalities expressed in the United States’ foreign and domestic policies

Salim Muwakkil

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Win Over Women

Republicans have waged a 20-year war against women, mothers and families, and ensured that it’s harder to be a mother here than in any other industrialized country—unless you’re rich, of course

Susan J. Douglas

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Be a Good Steward

Using Bush’s playbook, Kerry could employ executive orders to create a sustainable century

Adam Werbach

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Forge a Coalition with Labor

Despite some progressives’ reservations about Kerry, he has committed himself to a wide swath of labor’s agenda

David Moberg

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Exercise Fiscal Responsibility

A government should always be able to use its tax and spending policy to fight short-term economic difficulties

Dean Baker and Heather Boushey

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Make Judicious Appointments

Democrats must make a campaign issue of Bush’s full-court attack on basic values, such as liberty and equal protection.

Hans Johnson

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Left Turn

Polls show a growing progressive electorate—will Kerry heed the call?

David Moberg

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A Court of Cronies

Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.

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Framing Michael Moore

Joel Bleifuss

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The New and Improved Iraq

Juan Cole

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Detention Center Blues

Dan Frosch

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The Wal-Mart Effect

The hows and whys of beating the Bentonville behemoth

David Moberg

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Making Enemies

Politics, profit, and Bush’s North Korea policy

Matthew Reiss

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Georges Kids

Naomi Klein

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End of the Barrel

John R. MacArthur

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Imperial Barbarians

David Moberg

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Portrait of a Rebellion

Shiite insurgency in Iraq bedevils U.S.

Juan Cole

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Candidate Conundrum

Kerry must deal with Bush’s legacy of chaos

David Moberg

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Fear for Sale

Greg Palast

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Cold Turkey

Kurt Vonnegut

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Genocide in Sudan

The United Nations suppresses its own report on ‘the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis’

Eric Reeves

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Notes to a Young Feminist

Dorothy Allison

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A Crucial Coalition

Women, progressives must march for rights

Eleanor Smeal