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IssueVol. 083 Issue 005 (October 1 2019)
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Paid articleEditor's Note
EDITOR’S NOTE WORKING MIRACLES One of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, belted out with characteristic conviction by Bob Weir, is “I Need a Mir­acle.” I think of it often when I go to...
Paid articleLet's Overthrow the Government
LUEDERS, BILL
COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS LET’S OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT Donald Trump’s presidency has accomplished something remarkable: It has battered away our capacity to be shocked. His behavior is so...
Paid articlePoison, Pills
Smith, Byron
ON THE LINE by BYRON SMITH POISON, PILLS The United States is in the throes of an addiction crisis. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, U.S. overdose deaths topped 70,200 in 2017,...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT King of the Jews Days after accusing U.S. Jews who vote for Democrats of “great disloyalty,” President Donald Trump tweeted about how rightwing conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root...
Paid articleLetters/Blast from the Past
LETTERS Baldwin No Fighting Bob In The Progressive’s August/September issue interview, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin tells Bill Lueders she is channeling Fighting Bob La Follette by “stand[ing]...
Paid articleUsing the Disabled as Talking Points
Ervin, Mike
USING THE DISABLED AS TALKING POINTS SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN I’m pretty crappy at making political predictions. Three years ago, I predicted with cocksure confidence that there wasn’t the...
Paid articleWhat the Democrats Should Do
Conniff, Ruth
WHAT THE DEMOCRATS SHOULD DO MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF A not-so-subtle theme of the Democratic primary debates, and much of the conversation about the 2020 presidential election, is the...
Paid articleSmoking Gun
S M O K I N G G U N RIGHTWING TERRORISM? WHAT RIGHTWING TERRORISM? President Donald Trump has said that he does not view rightwing extremism as a rising threat. This puts him at odds with...
Paid articleThe New Green Scare
King, Elizabeth
Elizabeth King is an independent journalist in Chicago covering politics and dissent. Alex expected to be arrested. The Maryland resident and environmental activist knew it was only a matter of...
Paid articleUnder Surveillance
Davis-Cohen, Simon
Simon Davis-Cohen is a writer, filmmaker, and the editor of the Ear to the Ground newsletter. Under Police keep a close eye on nonviolent protesters. BY SIMON...
Paid articleWrecked
Kuhlenbeck, Mike
Mary Lovelace was living in Brentwood, California, and working as an interior designer. As a home-improvement specialist, she would drive a minimum of 365 miles every day in her car, carrying...
Paid articleDollar Stores Prey on the Poor
Sainato, Michael
BLAINE GRIFFIN KNOWS THAT MESSING WITH THE DOLLAR STORE INDUSTRY IS A RISKY PROPOSITION. “I understand people have concerns and criticisms because they feel this is a free market and a...
Paid articleOne Question
Reyna, Adrian; Li, Michael
ONE QUESTION Q: How Do We Make America What America Must Become?* ADRIAN REYNA Strategy Director, United We Dream I was born in Mexico, and grew up undocumented and queer in Texas. My whole...
Paid articleNo Health Care for You!
Thomhave, Kalena
Charles Gresham held various jobs in the food industry and construction, but was routinely let go because he would have seizures on the job. Due to his health, the thirty-seven-year-old resident of...
Paid articleTrumpism Comes to Latin America
Abbott, Jeff
Marvin Reyes keeps an eye on the street in downtown Guatemala City, waiting for the stoplight to turn red. When it starts flashing yellow, the thirty-five-year-old street artist adjusts the Donald...
Paid articleBeyond the Slaughterhouse
Dawn, Karen
“If the new meat being grown is called ‘cell-based’ or ‘cultured,’ shouldn’t traditional meat be labeled ‘slaughtered?’ ” The question from the audience got a good laugh and prompted a fun jab back...
Paid articleBook Excerpt: 'I Want You to Fly'
Perry, Imani
From Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, by Imani Perry. Excerpted with permission from Beacon Press. Perry is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She wrote an original essay,...
Paid articleBy the Thumbings of a Prick
Smith, AJ
By the Thumbings of a Prick By AJ Smith How wrong and bias’d must they be, ,tis shame The media defineth words so wrong. When I of her defeat did state my claim, Erected I the fitting verb “to...
Paid articleFirst-Person Singular: The Circus of the Damned
Coskran, Kathleen
WE MET ON THE PHONE: JIMMY, AN INMATE AT THE OAK PARK Heights Correctional Facility, Minnesota’s only level five maximum custody prison; me, an adjunct faculty member at Hamline University in St....
Paid articleWhat 1619 Means to Me
Powell, Kevin
I have mixed feelings about the 400th anniversary, now being commemorated, of the arrival of African slaves, my ancestors, to Jamestown in the colony of Virginia. That’s in part because, earlier...
Paid article'We Need Everybody'
Tempus, Alexandra
Alexandra Tempus is associate editor of The Progressive My first phone call with Alicia Garza is cut short because she is very busy. Since she co-founded the paradigm-shifting Black Lives Matter...
Paid articleBOOKS
LUEDERS, BILL; Stockwell, Norman
BOOKS Most Americans are well aware of the Underground Railroad that helped escaped Southern slaves find freedom in the North, but few have heard of the Reverse Underground Railroad that delivered...
Paid articleStop Me Before I Travel Again
Farsad, Negin
Like most reasonable human beings, I love travel—for vacation, leisure, and adventure. (Travel for work can suck it.) I love travel so much I wish I was French and could take the whole month of...
Paid articleStanding on My Own Good Luck
Higgins, Maeve
THE PROGRESSIVE | 67 Since I moved to New York City five years ago, four of my sisters have gotten married. To four different men. I’m delighted for them but found myself grumbling about the travel...
Paid articleGetting a Kick Out of Anti-Fascism
Zirin, Dave
We are living in a moment when some of the grandest public displays against street-thug fascism are taking place at Major League Soccer games. Sincerely. That’s because the heart of soccer country...
Paid articlePoem
Dougherty, Sean Thomas
POEM by SEAN THOMAS DOUGHERTY ASK THE GHOST ROADS For the names of the lynched For the names of the good old boys Who shoot up the sign on the spot Emmett Till was murdered. About plowed over...
Paid articleWill the Democrats Be Fraidy Cats?
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER WILL THE DEMOCRATS BE FRAIDY CATS? A major barrier to progressive changes is the meekness of establishment Democrats, who don’t have the courage of their party’s...
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