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Paid articleNational Emergency
EDITOR’S NOTE NATIONAL EMERGENCY “D id you see 60 Minutes last night?” asked a friend awhile back, referring to former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe’s revelation that high-level officials...
Paid articleTrump's Broken-Clock Foreign Policy
LUEDERS, BILL
COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS TRUMP’S BROKEN-CLOCK FOREIGN POLICY D onald Trump loves tyrants. He trusts them ab­solutely. He believes Russia’s Vladimir Putin over his own national security team....
Paid articleWomen's Work
Bari, Kisha
NO COMMENT Frontiers of the Obscene Gail Griffin, a Republican state legislator in Arizona, has proposed a novel funding mechanism for a U.S.­Mexico border wall. Her bill would make tech...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
ON THE LINE by KISHA BARI WOMEN’S WORK Shortly after the election of Donald Trump as President in November 2016, a coalition of women came together to organize the Women’s March in Washington,...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS About That Letter Thank you to The Progressive and to Ariel Felton for her beautifully written “A Let­ter to My Niece” (February/March issue), which so poignantly depicts the near...
Paid articleThe Only Gun I Ever Loved
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN THE ONLY GUN I EVER LOVED I fired one gun in my life. It was at the rifle range at a summer camp for crippled kids. I was eleven years old. Shooting paper...
Paid articleThe Democrats' Dilemma
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF THE DEMOCRATS’ DILEMMA “P ower to the People!” blared over the speakers at Navy Pier Festival Hall in Chicago in early March, as U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders...
Paid articleThe President Who Loved to Fire People
SMOKING GUN THE PRESIDENT WHO LOVED TO FIRE PEOPLE Few people have been more closely associated with job termination than Donald Trump. For years, the signature line on his awful TV show, The...
Paid articleDump Trump. Now!
NICHOLS, JOHN
BY JOHN NICHOLS It is time to be done with Donald Trump.Not in 2021. Not in 2020. Now. As a practical matter, the United States and the world cannot wait for this racist con man and cheat to...
Paid article'It's a Movement'
Gunn, Erik
‘It’s a Movement’ The Poor People’s Campaign Heads into the Future with a Robust Agenda BY ERIK GUNN On May 14, 2018, scores of protesters descended on the grounds of Wisconsin’s state...
Paid articlePutting the Freeze on ICE
Goodman, James
Enrique Balcazar Sanchez and Zully Palacios Rodriguez at the office of Migrant Justice in Burlington, Vermont. BY JAMES GOODMAN Putting the Freeze on ICE Communities Across the Nation...
Paid articleOne Question
ONE QUESTION Q: Two Years into the Trump Administration, What Does Effective Resistance Look Like? JENNIFER EPPS-ADDISON Network President and Co-Executive Director, The Center for...
Paid articleDown to Earth
Ruddock, Jenna
Sunrise Movement activists wend their way to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Capitol Hill office to pressure him to take action on the Green New Deal. Down to Earth The Local Roots of...
Paid articleBorderland Resistance
Bernstein, Dennis J.
BORDERLAND RESISTANCE BY DENNIS J. BERNSTEIN “We’ve had enough,” Juan Mancias tells me. “They are digging up our people.” Mancias is the chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo tribe of Texas,...
Paid articleAppalachia Can't Breathe
Catte, Elizabeth
AP IMAGES Appalachia Can’t Breathe Coal Miners Are at a Political Choke Point—Again BY ELIZABETH CATTE MY FIRST ENCOUNTER with black lung, the miners’ disease, came when I was a small...
Paid articleThe Other Collusion Scandal
Gottinger, Paul; Kelman, Daniel
Paul Gottinger, who lives in Chicago, is an independent journalist covering human rights issues and U.S. foreign policy. Daniel Kelman, who lives in Denver, is a researcher and analyst whose day...
Paid articleCause Celebs
Rampell, Ed
(From left) Actresses Laverne Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, and Sarah Hyland speak at the 2019 Women’s March in Los Angeles, California. Gale Sondergaard was the .rst. In accepting the Best Supporting...
Paid articleLinda Stein's 'Displacement Art'
Bader, Eleanor J.
This page, top: “Possessions.” Bottom: “Picnic Case with Mirror.” Facing page, top: “Group of Cases.” Bottom: “Soft Cabinet.” Images courtesy Linda Stein. LINDA STEIN’S ‘DISPLACEMENT ART’...
Paid article'This Is a Movement to Tell the Truth'
NICHOLS, JOHN
‘This Is a Movement to Tell the Truth’ An Interview with Tom Steyer T om Steyer has been referred to as “An Inconvenient Billionaire.” The Stanford Business School graduate started an...
Paid articleMcCarthyism and the American Promise
LUEDERS, BILL
BOOKS McCarthyism and the American Promise BY BILL LUEDERS A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father By David Maraniss Simon & Schuster, 416 pages, publication date May 14,...
Paid articleLiving in an Age of Fear
White, E.B.
BOOKS Living in an Age of Fear BY E.B. WHITE Editor’s note: On December 2, 1947, the New York Herald Tribune published a letter by the great writer E.B. White in response to an editorial...
Paid articleWhat's Your Plan, Wo/Man?
Farsad, Negin
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD WHAT’S YOUR PLAN, WO/MAN? W e now begin what will feel like sixteen years, but is actually about a year and a half, of primary cam­paigning. We’ve already...
Paid articleClimate Change? Don't Get Me Started!
Higgins, Maeve
MAEVE IN AMERICA by MAEVE HIGGINS CLIMATECHANGE? DON’T GET ME STARTED! I ’m great at parties. I’m not say­ing I enjoy them, but after years of doing comedy I’m confident that I can read, and...
Paid articleDavid West vs. Goliath
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN DAVID WEST VS. GOLIATH D avid West was a two-time All-Star NBA forward who played fifteen seasons in the NBA. He was also an activist-ath­ lete, someone who...
Paid articleHargrove Shoals, The Forward
Pratt, Minnie Bruce
HARGROVE SHOALS The habit of living taken away. The green chalked with white dust, like grief, like death on the way to the river. To lose a person like you who can say, The eternal nature of...
Paid articleJust Say No to the Corporate Bribe Racket
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER JUST SAY NO TO THE CORPORATE BRIBE RACKET T he richest man in the world, who heads one of the world’s largest and most lu­crative corporations, is also filthy...
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