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How to Break Through Red-Blue Politics
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Table of Contents Issue 47 Fall 2008 |
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 THEME GUIDE: Purple America |
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION: Politics That Break Through by Sarah van Gelder |
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New Visions Solving today’s big problems will take more than a quick fix. These authors offer clarity about the roots of our problems and visions of a better way. |
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| Seeing Red, Feeling Blue: Dispatches from the Nation's Populist Uprising The old red-blue political divide is breaking down as Americans look for answers to economic pain and global insecurity. Stories of a home-grown populist uprising. By David Sirota :: JUST THE FACTS: How the Middle Class Got Stuck |
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We Are Hard-Wired to Care We’re taught that ruthless competition and fear are the natural state of humanity. New science shows we evolved to cooperate, and that opens up possibilities for a whole new way of doing politics. By David Korten
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A New Agenda Americans want many of the same things. One of these days, politicians will have to get out of the way and let us have them. |
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 10 Policies for a Better AmericaA YES! take on what Americans want. By Sarah van Gelder  Poster available for free download.Also available to buy: just $2 Health Care for All Doctors, business owners, and others want national health insurance—and are prepared to do what it takes to get it. By Daina Saib |
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The Housing Fix Housing trusts offer affordable housing immune to speculation and loan sharks. By Dan Fireside Jobs You Can Count On Tired of dead-end jobs, low-wage workers start co-op businesses. By Layla Aslani What’s Good for Families Living wages mean working parents can support their kids. Time off means they can raise them. By Nanette Fondas |
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Reaching Out Stories of people with the courage to reach out to people who are different, to overcome stereotypes, and to create authentic community. |
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| Why My Dad's Going Green A farmer’s daughter learns that her once-conservative dad is turning into a tree-hugger. By Kate Sheppard Immigrants & American-Born Hundreds gathered across the U.S. to grapple with the human side of immigration. By Pramila Jayapal  Video of the Swift RaidsEquality Rides: Gay & Straight Talk LGBT youth take a road trip to conservative Christian campuses. By Noah Grant  Equality Ride photo essay See the trailer for Equality U |
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 Churches & Social Justice Christian conservatives put aside hot-button issues to focus on poverty, global warming, and peace. By Valerie Saturen |
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Breaking Open Humor, story-telling, and the arts—taking you into unexpected spaces where business-as-usual breaks open into new possibilities. |
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| Great Correction Folksinger Eliza Gilkyson, offers hope in her new CD, Beautiful World. By Eliza Gilkyson  Have a listen |
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 Tools for a Populist UprisingSmart ways to make change together. By Layla Aslani & Noah Grant Poster available for download |
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Media We Can Trust Fair and accurate news offers a basis for reality-based debates. But how do we tell if it’s fair? |
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Features |
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 The Battle in Seattle: The FilmWhat actually happened when protesters shut down the WTO meeting is Seattle? The corporate media has one story. Activists have a very different story. Now director Stuart Townsend is weighing in: “The Battle in Seattle” opens soon, but how real is it? David Solnit See the trailerWTO photo quiz
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 How to Solve the Food Crisis: Welcoming Strangers to the TableFeeding the hungry. This simple act turned out to be both revolutionary and controversial for Sara Miles, a lesbian who had just converted to Christianity. An interview by Madeline Ostrander |
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Departments |
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COMMENTARY SIGNS OF LIFE UPDATE :: YES! STORIES REVISITED |
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QUOTE PAGE: FROM THE PUBLISHER |
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IN REVIEW YES! MUSIC PICKS YES! FILM PICKS
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