The Progressive back issues from September 1993:
Violence at the top. (Bill Clinton and the death penalty) (Editorial)
Sep 01, 1993; ... Fielding Dawson, a reader in New York City who is passionately concerned - as we all should be - about the crime of capital punishment, wrote a letter to Bill Clinton asking the President to do what he could to spare the life of Gary Graham, a young African-American who is scheduled to be ...
Profile in cowardice. (Bill Clinton on gays in the military) (Editorial)
Sep 01, 1993 ... Is it courage that Bill Clinton lacks, or conviction - or both? That's the only question left hanging after his disgraceful and pusillanimous retreat on the issue of gays and lesbians in the military. He has reneged on yet another campaign promise, he has betrayed a core ...
Open it up. (House Post Office scandal; closed confirmation hearings) (Editorial)
Sep 01, 1993 ... When governments decide that the public's interest is best served by keeping people ignorant, alarm bells should ring somewhere. In July, two separate decisions sought to deny the American public its right to know. A fiercely partisan debate in the House of Representatives ...
Borderline insanity. (Bill Clinton on illegal immigration) (Editorial)
Sep 01, 1993 ... Bill Clinton is cracking down on the weakest members in our midst - illegal immigrants. Using the World Trade Center bombing as a pretext, he asked Congress in late July for a series of repressive measures that would have made Ronald Reagan and Ed Meese blush. Clinton's proposal ...
Turn it off. (Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty) (Editorial)
Sep 01, 1993 ... We're indebted to Russell Feingold, the junior Democratic Senator from Wisconsin, for prying out of the Board for International Broadcasting, a quasi-public body, the exorbitant salaries it pays to its own executives and to officers of its subsidiaries, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty ....
Battling the religious right. (Citizen's Project of Colorado Springs, Colorado)
Sep 01, 1993; ... Fixing the bright blue bumper sticker Celebrate Diversity on a car in Colorado Springs is no token gesture of political correctness. It signifies support for one embattled group's fight against the growing influence of the Religious Right in the political affairs of the community ....
Activist summer. (Detroit Summer 1993)
Sep 01, 1993; ... Jamez, a seventeen-year-old from Los Angeles, spent three weeks this summer vacationing in an unusual spot - Detroit. "When I told my friends I was taking off for Detroit," he laughs, "they looked at me like I was nuts. But I've learned things here that they wouldn't believe." ...
Bosnia betrayed. (United States policy on intervention)
Sep 01, 1993; ... I used to wonder what it must have felt like to be a grownup living in Germany or in the United States during World War II. How did anybody hear about the Nazis? Did everyone believe the news? Did anybody care? I always wanted to imagine that only bad people didn't know what was ...
Yokel no more. (Bill Clinton in mass media)
Sep 01, 1993; ... Remember when Bill Clinton was, according to the pundits and the news media at large, a bumbling rube, a spineless, clueless, left-wing twit, the dumbest stump ever to inhabit the White House? My goodness, was that only eight weeks ago? How time flies. Even the conservative ...
Campaign reform? Get real!
Sep 01, 1993; ... President Clinton scored a major hit, according to reports in the news media, when he attended the recent G-7 conference in Tokyo. He talked to the Japanese people over the heads of their own government, discussing the price of consumer goods in the United States and the desirability of ...
Sarajevo's reproach. (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Sep 01, 1993; ... Welcome to the Twenty-first Century," said Haris Pasovic, the director of Sarajevo's main theater. "Come and see the beginning of the end of Western civilization." Many people reiterated this theme during my recent visit to the Bosnian capital. "Fukuyama talked about the end of history," ...
The morning after: sexual politics at the end of the the Cold War.
Sep 01, 1993; ... Now that the war is over, Esmeralda has had her IUD removed." What? I read the sentence again. It was from a 1992 article in Ms. entitled "Salvadoran Women Plan for Peace." Esmeralda is a Salvadoran woman who spent many of her young adult years as a guerrilla in the Farabundo ...
Lani Guinier: 'I was nominated - and then the rules were changed.' (nominee to head Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department)(interview) (Cover Story)
Sep 01, 1993; ... When Lani Guinier was nominated in late April by President Bill Clinton to head the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department, harsh attacks by right-wingers began immediately. Former Reagan Administration official Clint Bolick labeled Guinier an "ideologue," and a Wall Street ...
Who needs the Hollywood left? (media coverage of political activity by celebrities) (Column)
Sep 01, 1993; ... The hysteria over political correctness in university curricula seems, at last, to have run its loopy course. We rarely hear anymore that classes in cross-dressing are driving Shakespeare and Milton off required-reading lists, or that manhating feminists are taking over entire departments, ...
Why Carl needs his pillow. (child with cerebral palsy and sleep apnea) (Column)
Sep 01, 1993; ... The brown-eyed, auburn-haired little boy sitting next to me in a car seat as I drive to preschool asks, "Did you know my mom and dad made me?" Guardedly, I agree they did. "Shoulda used Play-Doh," he quips. His disability isn't on his mind. He's not suggesting they could have made an ...
Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers.
Sep 01, 1993; ... When I came to work at The Charlotte Observer, once one of the finest newspapers in the South, I was assigned to do a story about racial discrimination in apartment complexes. Working with a team of three other reporters, I helped to prove that despite the recent passage of open-housing ...
Read All About It: The Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers.
Sep 01, 1993; ... When I came to work at The Charlotte Observer, once one of the finest newspapers in the South, I was assigned to do a story about racial discrimination in apartment complexes. Working with a team of three other reporters, I helped to prove that despite the recent passage of open-housing ...
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement.
Sep 01, 1993; ... People with disabilities who have managed to get out of nursing homes or other stifling institutions can rattle off the date, maybe even the minute, of their release as if it were their birthday. That small reality capsulizes more than anything the essence of the disability-rights ...
Notebook of a Sixties Lawyer: An Unrepentant Memoir and Selective Writings.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 1993 ... In the beginning there was Lenny Bruce, whose acid commentaries on the culture jolted Michael Steven Smith out of what appears to have been a conventional middle-class Milwaukee childhood. At the University of Wisconsin in the student-activist 1960s, Smith joined the antiwar movement and ...
Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 1993 ... Howard Zinn, the eminent author of A People's History of the United States, has collected in this slim volume the essays he has written over a number of years for such journals as Civil Liberties Review (now defunct) and Z magazine; the transcripts of a radio interview and a few public ...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 1993 ... Here is a beautifully written insider's account of what it's like to live in the desolation of America's urban ghettoes. The poet Luis J. Rodriguez grew up in Watts and East Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. This is his autobiography, and it recounts the racism he and his family felt ...