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 Vol. 083 Issue 006 (December 1 2019)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Editor's Note
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TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION
T he other day at The Progressive, we had an Intern Appreciation Lunch, where we ordered a couple of pizzas from the restaurant next door and spent a few minutes...
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Comment
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LUEDERS, BILL
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JOIN TOGETHER TO DUMP TRUMP
W hen news broke that Donald Trump had decided to hold the 2020 G7 summit at one of his Florida resorts, meaning payments from foreign visitors would go to his...
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On the Line
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Craver, Henry
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THE OTHER BORDER CAMPS
In late August, makeshift camps began popping up along Mexico’s side of the U.S.-Mexico border, from Matamoros all the way to Tijuana. The inhabitants, who now number in...
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No Comment
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Better Safe Than Sensible American Airlines canceled a flight from Alabama to Texas in September after two Muslim passengers—one a motivational speaker, the other the head of a nonprofit...
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Letters/Blast From the Past
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Not Just Lone Wolves Your one-page article (“Smoking Gun,” October/November issue) referencing certain rightwing terrorist acts left the impression that these atrocities are all lone wolf...
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Smoking Gun
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THE LAWBREAKER-IN-CHIEF Donald Trump and his allies like to throw around terms like “witch hunt” when talking about the ongoing impeachment probe. In fact, there are innumerable instances in which...
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Ilhan Omar and the Politics of 'Radical Love'
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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Foreign policy is not an abstraction for Ilhan Omar. It is her life.
While Republican members of Congress propose to wall off the United States and many Democrats are shy about engaging with...
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One Question
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Pope, Tina Rosenberg, Kyle
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Q: Should Journalism Seek Solutions? TINA ROSENBERG Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-founder, Solutions Journalism Network Yes—but not in the way many journalists fear and many...
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Fix It and They Will Come
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Mazur, Laurie
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FIX IT AND
THEY WILL COME
How the renewal of a crumbling
New Jersey church became a model for
reinvestment in community life.
BY LAURIE MAZUR Five years ago, the First Unitarian...
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Detroit's Push for Community Benefits
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Gunn, Erik
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Detroit’s Push for
Community Bene.ts
Locals in one of America’s
poorest cities are pioneering e.orts
to hold major developers to their promises.
BY ERIK GUNN On the south edge of...
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Got a License for That?
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Johnson, Sharon
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Got a License for That? Making people apply to own guns could save lives. BY SHARON JOHNSON Since 1994, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, the federal law requiring federally...
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First-Person Singular: Reflections of an Urban Indian
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Rolo, Mark Anthony
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Re.ections of an Urban Indian
BY MARK ANTHONY ROLO It’s been more than twenty years since I lived in South Minneapolis, in the heart of the American Indian community. I worked there as editor...
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The Sanctuary Strategy
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Goodman, James
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The Sanctuary Strategy
Policies and activism that work to shelter undocumented immigrants
have spread across the country—and are remarkably effective.
Maria Chavalan Sut: “I just want the...
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Ending the Free Ride for America's Mines
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Vanderpool, Tim
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BY TIM VANDERPOOL
A federal judge in an Arizona case upends long-abused law, sparing a beautiful valley and improving protections for public lands. Tim Vanderpool is a journalist based in...
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Book Excerpt: How Unions Can Still Win Big
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McAlevey, Jane
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How Unions Can Still Win Big
BY JANE MCALEVEY
It’s October 20, 2018, and it’s louder than an orchestra or rock concert on the 2200 block of Broadway in downtown Oakland, California. Irma...
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Reckless Cruelty: The Joe McCarthy Story
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Rampell, Ed
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I n the tradition of screen bad guys like Star Wars’ Darth Vader, Harry Potter’s Lord Voldemort, and Batman’s Joker, Joe McCarthy is a villain you love to hate. The junior Senator from Wisconsin is...
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Art as a Hammer to Shape the World
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Stockwell, Norman
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Norman Stockwell is publisher of The Progressive. Art as a Hammer to Shape the World BY NORMAN STOCKWELL “Well, if music could only bring peace, I’d only be a musician,” sang Pete Seeger...
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Interview: 'Make Whatever Alliances You Can'
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Barsamian, David
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‘Make Whatever Alliances You Can’ Noam Chomsky on necessary responses to existential threats. BY DAVID BARSAMIAN N oam Chomsky, by any measure, has led a most extraordinary life. In one...
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Books
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Henderson, Ash-Lee Woodard
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Ruth Conniff In our current tortured political moment, it is clarifying to read about the political upheaval that preceded the Progessive Era. It reminds us that the fundamental struggles in...
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Hemming and Hawing
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Farsad, Negin
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IS UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME A GOOD IDEA?
A m I supposed to be really into Universal Basic Income or what? Because after hearing Andrew Yang talk about it for the millionth time— we get it, you...
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Maeve in America
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Higgins, Maeve
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SPLITTING UP FAMILIES: AN AMERICAN TRADITION
I t’s difficult to stay on top of everything that’s been happening with family separation at the border. I don’t mean it’s emotionally difficult,...
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Edge of Sports
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Zirin, Dave
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NFL HEALTH CARE’S BITTER FRUIT
T his NFL season has seen a chasm develop between the Washington, D.C., football team whose name is a racial slur and arguably its best player, an offensive...
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Poem
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Vértiz, Vickie
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DISCO After all queer bars and “La Verdolaga” One Saturday night, Jesse takes me to Circus Disco. Hot dogs
wrapped in bacon. Me and Jesse are really...
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Vox Populist
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Hightower, Jim
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WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE . . .
F or millions of people around the globe, especially young people, the pressing issue of our time is this: The world is on fire! It’s on fire with climate...
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2020s
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