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IssueVol. 083 Issue 003 (June 1 2019)
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Paid articleThe Threats We Face
EDITOR’S NOTE THE THREATS WE FACE In this issue of The Progressive, we look at existential threats to life on Earth. I wish this phrasing could be dismissed as hyperbolic, but it’s not. The...
Paid articleIt's a Catastrophe
LUEDERS, BILL
COMMENT by BILL LUEDERS IT’S A CATASTROPHE We live in the age of the phoney crisis. Hordes of immigrants are coming to kill your family. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to get rid of planes and...
Paid articleThe (Iraq) War on Workers
Bacon, David
ON THE LINE by DAVID BACON THE (IRAQ) WAR ON WORKERS Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to share the first of a six-part series from the archives of photographer David Bacon that will appear online at...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Making the Cruel More Usual The U.S. Supreme Court in April denied a Missouri death-row inmate's request to avoid an agonizing death. The inmate, Russell Bucklew, had asked to be killed...
Paid articleLetters
LETTERS Hightower Is Right I was an opinion columnist for the Athens Banner-Herald daily newspaper for twenty-seven years until my columns were “discontinued” early this year. In 2017, the...
Paid articleStuck in Limbo
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN STUCK IN LIMBO If you’re wondering what life is like for many disabled folks in the United States, think about those television commercials for amusement parks like...
Paid articleThe Politics of Our Constitutional Crisis
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF THE POLITICS OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS Democrats confront two major problems: One is how to deal with the Constitutional crisis provoked by the lawless Trump...
Paid articleThe Day the World Almost Ended
SMOKING GUN THE DAY THE WORLD ALMOST ENDED Since the dawn of the nuclear age, there have been dozens of narrowly missed opportunities to bring about an end to the nuclear age—along with everything...
Paid articleBan the Bomb-Before Our Luck Runs Out
Helfand, Ira
BAN THE BOMB— Before Our Luck Runs Out BY IRA HELFAND WE ARE CLOSER TO NUCLEAR WAR THAN WE HAVE EVER BEEN. That is the assessment of William Perry, who served as Secretary of Defense under...
Paid articleWhat a Nuclear War Would Mean
Fleck, Martin
What a Nuclear War Would Mean BY MARTIN FLECK A nuclear attack on any city would be a humanitarian catastrophe. Modern nuclear weapons are fundamentally different from any other weapons in...
Paid articleThe Battle Against Line 3
Russell, Scott
The Battle Against Line 3 It’s not just a pipeline, it’s the future of the planet. BY SCOTT RUSSELL Scott Russell, an independent journalist who lives in Minneapolis, co-chairs the Beyond Oil and...
Paid articleThe Press Under Fire
Ellerbeck, Alexandra
Alexandra Ellerbeck is the North America program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists. THE PRESS UNDER FIRE Trump’s rhetoric is both a cause and a symptom of the danger to U.S....
Paid articlePress Freedom Group Takes Trump to Court
LUEDERS, BILL
PRESS FREEDOM GROUP TAKES TRUMP TO COURT Many people in the United States consider President Donald Trump’s attacks on the press to be appalling. The press freedom group PEN America goes further;...
Paid articleIn Defense of Choice
Thomhave, Kalena
As bans proliferate, a look inside the life-saving work of abortion funds. BY KALENA THOMHAVE Amy Irvin had her first abortion when she was in college. Young and wanting to be near her support...
Paid articleThe New Surveillance State
Kupfer, David
The New Surveillance State Private companies are using your data to control how you think. BY DAVID KUPFER David Kupfer is a Northern California-based writer who has been a contributor to The...
Paid articleQ: What can we do to meet our most challenging threats?
Schneider, Astra Taylor, Nathan; Ransby, Barbara
ONE QUESTION Q: What Can We Do to Meet Our Most Challenging Threats? ASTRA TAYLOR, filmmaker and writer The single most potent weapon regular people have to fight for their rights is the...
Paid articleThe Truth About Fentanyl
Castillo, Tessie
TheTruth About Most is coming not from across the southern border but from unregulated pharmaceutical companies in China. BY TESSIE CASTILLO For Ryan Lay, August 16, 2016, began like any other...
Paid articleGetting Back to the Garden
Yeo, Sophie
Before he died from an overdose of heroin— laced, probably, with fentanyl—Otis Green was preparing to become the guardian of four chickens, the way a mother might prepare for the birth of her first...
Paid articleAmazon Warriors
Gupta, Arun
BY ARUN GUPTA It's a Friday night in early March, but spring is nowhere in sight as members of Queens Neighborhoods United bundle up against the cold and huddle near a folding table dispensing hot...
Paid articleThe Birth of the Wobblies
Strang, Dean A.
The Birth of the Wobblies An exclusive excerpt from a new book about America’s largest mass trial and its most radical labor union. BY DEAN A. STRANG In 1905, a small group of leaders of the...
Paid articleStand Up and Be Counted
Johnson, Sharon
Stand Up and Be Counted BY SHARON JOHNSON Communities prepare for the largest, most expensive, and most controversial Census in U.S. history. Lety Valencia, a community organizer with Faith in...
Paid article'We're Not Going Anywhere'
Tempus, Alexandra
Alexandra Tempus is associate editor of The Progressive. ‘We’re Not Going Anywhere’ An interview with Winona LaDuke. BY ALEXANDRATEMPUS Winona LaDuke seems like the perfect person to talk with...
Paid articleBooks
LUEDERS, BILL; Stockwell, Norman
BOOKS How to Solve the Immigration ‘Problem’ BY BILL LUEDERS This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto By Suketu Mehta, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pages To hear Donald Trump tell it,...
Paid articleWorkers Deserve Stable Schedules
Farsad, Negin
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD WORKERS DESERVE STABLE SCHEDULES NEGIN FARSAD (@NeginFarsad) is the host of the political comedy podcast Fake the Nation and author of the book How to Make...
Paid articleStrangers on a Plane
Higgins, Maeve
MAEVE IN AMERICA by MAEVE HIGGINS STRANGERS ON A PLANE I’ve always found it difficult to know what to say and when to say it. I have plenty of knowledge and lots of opinions, but I still hesitate...
Paid articleSaving Coach Fofo
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN SAVING COACH FOFO DAVE ZIRIN is the host of the popular Edge of Sports podcast and sports editor of The Nation. His most recent book is Jim Brown: Last Man Standing...
Paid articleDuplex
Brown, Jericho
POEM by JERICHO BROWN DUPLEX I still believe in God. What else keeps me From slaughter? Who else holds the butcher’s hand? Sweet slaughter. Though I’d pray, Give me butcher’s hands, Matthew...
Paid articleGive the People What They Want: Socialism
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT: SOCIALISM “C; Wi Populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator JIM HIGHTOWER writes The Hightower Lowdown, a monthly...
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