The Progressive - July 1992

Madison. 1992. The Progressive. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 46 pages. paperback - magazine. Cover illustration by Michael Duffy. keywords: Politics. DESCRIPTION - ARTICLES - DON'T BLAME THE GREAT SOCIETY by Roger Wilkins - Was the Great Society a total success? No. But the programs still did an enormous amount of good. By contrast, the labor, poverty, and urban policies of the Reagan and Bush Administrations have been a class war on workers and the poor. Despite fudging by Bush, the facts are alive in South Central Los Angeles; HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT PREFERRED by Bernard D. Nossiter - American society can't offer a stake to alienated blacks without providing jobs, but the Government prefers a high-unemployment economy as a means of social control; BUSH TO CITIES: DROP DEAD By Peter Dreier - It took a riot to get national leaders to pay attention to America's cities, but the Bush prescription is just a quick-fix that ignores the root causes; AN INTERVIEW WITH STUDS TERKEL By Kurt Jacobsen - The Chicago writer/disc jockey/interviewer talks about race, politics, the labor movement, and the last twelve years. 'The evil of banality is what I find so horrible in Bush and Reagan,' he says; THE INVISIBLE ISSUE By Stephen Zunes - The U.S. role in the Middle East is the key foreign-policy issue of the day, but it has hardly come up in the Presidential campaign. And when it has, the Democrats' ideas have been worse than the Republicans'; POISON IN THE PACIFIC by Robert Walters - Residents of the twenty-one island nations in the. Pacific Ocean have reason to be anxious: The region has become the repository of last resort for everything from toxic industrial wastes to aging military weapons; COLUMNS - PUNDIT WATCH - Susan Douglas watches the L.A. riots at the electronic coliseum; CULTURE - L.A. Kauffman assesses queer guerrillas facing off against Tinseltown; JOURNAL ENTRY - Natalie Pearson relates a personal loss to the politics of abortion; SMALL FAVORS - Molly Ivins about declining moral values and cursing in the Navy: DEPARTMENTS MEMO; LETTERS; COMMENT; NO COMMENT; ON THE LINE by Barbara Osborn, Jack Thorndike; and Ron Karten; BOOKS - Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, by John R. MacArthur, reviewed by Arthur E. Rowse; War on the Land: Ecology and Politics in Central America, by William J. Weinberg; reviewed by Michael I. Niman; BOOKS BRIEFLY. inventory #47345.…