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IssueVol. 087 Issue 001 (February 1 2023)
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Paid articleEditor's Note
EDITOR’S NOTE WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT WE’VE GOT Sadly, as we were putting the final touches on this current issue of The Progressive, the world was glued to the TV and the Internet watching yet...
Paid articleComment
Flanders, Laura
COMMENT BY LAURA FLANDERS A ROAD MAP FOR CHANGE It’s hard to think of a better example of doing what you can with what you’ve got than Naomi Dix when the lights went out. When Dix, the...
Paid articleFurther Comment
NICHOLS, JOHN
BLUE RIVER, Wisconsin My ancestors settled in rural Southwestern Wisconsin in the 1820s, and it is in this region that I learned about politics. My great-grandfather served for almost four decades...
Paid articleNo Comment
Let the Freedom to Commit Mass Murder Ring The sheriffs of at least six rural Oregon counties announced that they would not enforce a new state ban on high-capacity gun magazines because they...
Paid articleLetters
Sifting and Winnowing I read “The Truth About Fredric March” by Bill Lueders (December 2022/January 2023 issue) with interest and agree with his conclusion that March has been unfairly...
Paid articleBlast from the Past
The Revolt of a State—North Dakota—Is Rapidly Spreading to Other States of the Middle West BY DOUGLAS ANDERSON, LA FOLLETTE’S MAGAZINE, AUGUST 1917 J ust a little over a year ago, the...
Paid articleSmoking Gun
GOOD NEWS FOR MIDWESTERN PROGRESSIVES ILLINOIS Voters handily approved an amendment to protect the right of workers to “organize and bargain collectively,” including a prohibition on so-called...
Paid articleOn the Line
Castor, Chase
ON THE LINE by CHASE CASTOR DEFENDING HOUSING IN THE HEARTLAND Sakinah Cooper, who in February 2019 was a stay-at-home, work-from-home mom, sat on the couch in her living room in Kansas...
Paid articleMiddle America
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE STATES A November 30 glossy mag­azine feature in Vanity Fair teased readers with the promise of “A Wisconsin Death Trip for Our...
Paid articleSmart Ass Cripple
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN ROOTING FOR FETTERMAN O f all the high-profile mid­term elections outside my state in 2022, the one that interested me most was the race for the U.S. Senate...
Paid articleWork Won't Love You Back
Jaffe, Sarah
WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE AFTER A UNION ELECTION VICTORY COMES THE HARD PART O n the morning of Decem­ber 16, workers from about 100 Starbucks stores across the United States...
Paid articleFirst Things First
LUEDERS, BILL
DOES THE FIRST AMENDMENT ALLOW BIAS? L orie Smith says she’s just try­ing to speak her mind. The Colorado website designer claims her ability to do so is being thwarted by a state law that...
Paid articleOne Question
Marion, Jim Goodman, Mandela Barnes, and Kriss
Q: What Lessons Does the Midwest Offer for 2024? JIM GOODMAN Retired dairy farmer and longtime farm activist Wisconsin—especially rural Wisconsin, and by extension, the...
Paid articleIt's Time to 'Railroad' the Oligarchs
Nelson, Thomas M.
It’s Time to ‘Railroad’ the Oligarchs Some lessons from the (almost) Great Railroad Strike of 2022. BY THOMAS M. NELSON B ernie Sanders clutched both sides of the sturdy wooden podium at the...
Paid articleDefining What It Means to Care
Harris, Leah
Defining What It Means Alberta Lessard never stopped .ghting to Care for compassionate mental health care. BY LEAH HARRIS O n an early morning last July, I surveyed the green...
Paid articleLaboring Under Discrimination
Stetler, Pepper
LABORING UNDER DISCRIMINATION Seventeen states have taken steps to phase out subminimum wages, but Ohio isn’t one of them. BY PEPPER STETLER W hen Jan Dougherty’s son, Ryan, gradu­ated from...
Paid articleChicago's 2023 Mayoral Race Is a Progressive Litmus Test
Schmidt, Corey
Chicago’s 2023 Mayoral Race Is a Progressive Litmus Test Mayor Lori Lightfoot faces steep competition from those on the left who say she has not lived up to her promise of progressive reform....
Paid articleWhat Michigan's Proposal 3 Means for Abortion Rights
Kraus, Molly Wadzeck
What Michigan’s Proposal 3 Means for Abortion Rights A bipartisan coalition of pro-choice Midwesterners won big on Election Day. Molly Wadzeck Kraus is a freelance writer, poet, and...
Paid articleViolence Against Native Women Has Colonial Roots
Whyatt, Robin
Violence Against Native Women Has Colonial Roots Understanding today’s violence against Native American women requires confronting our brutal past. BY ROBIN WHYATT N ative American...
Paid articleNative People Are Still Here
Lahm, Sarah
BY SARAH LAHM Beside a snowy, ribbon-like highway in Western Minnesota, a small pack of horseback riders moves together through the biting cold of late December, bracing against a blast of...
Paid articleThe Supreme Court's Obsession with Whitewashed History
Miller, Rann
The Supreme Court’s Obsession with Whitewashed History Rightwing originalist doctrine will plunge us back decades. BY RANN MILLER I n late October, the U.S. Supreme Court heard an...
Paid articleDisplacing Black Farmers in Appalachia
Loving, Joy
DISPLACING BLACK FARMERS How the Tennessee Valley Authority Act uprooted thousands of families. BY JOY LOVING “D evelopment-induced displacement”: When was the first time you heard or...
Paid articleFit Check
Berryhill, Nora-Kathleen
FIT CHECK Gen Z transforms the fashion landscape—for better and worse—one GRWM at a time. BY NORA-KATHLEEN BERRYHILL I n the last few years, Internet vernacular, pop culture trends, and...
Paid articleInterview
Kupfer, David
INTERVIEW Singing with Us,and for Us An interview with musician and activist Holly Near. BY DAVID KUPFER H olly Near has had an amazing, exemplary life of artistry, performance,...
Paid articleBook Excerpt
Censored, Project
SPACE JUNK The corporate media’s fawning coverage of billionaires’ space tourism is one of the best examples of ‘Junk Food News’ of the past year. BY JEN LYONS, MARCELLE SWINBURNE, SIERRA...
Paid articleBook Reviews
BOOK REVIEWS A Lifetime of Struggle BY BRIAN GILMORE “I knew Mrs. Rosa Parks in a way that few people ever experience a truly inspirational person. She was far more than an icon of...
Paid articleHemming and Hawing
Farsad, Negin
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD THE INFLUENCER TIPPING POINT W hat did we even have before influencers? Who told you about the latest skin care trends? How did you know to buy white...
Paid articleEdge of Sports
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN THE PRICE OF PASSION I recently lent a friend a memoir by the late Pat Conroy, about his last year of playing college basketball for The Citadel, a mili­tary...
Paid articlePoem
Pollock, Iain Haley
POEM by IAIN HALEY POLLOCK ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES My alcoholic grandfather couldn’t hold his money & passed a bad check. Hampton, Virginia, after Brown v. Board but before Selma’s Bloody...
Paid articleVox Populist
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER LESSONS FROM THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS W hat hit the Republican party on Election Day last November was . . . well, the Republican Party. Blow number one, of...
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