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IssueVol. 088 Issue 006 (December 1 2024)
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Paid articleEditor's Note
Tempus, Alexandra
EDITOR’S NOTE TOWARD EACH OTHER W here do we turn now? Here at The Progressive, we often turn to the most-read piece published in this magazine’s 115-year history. “I know how black it...
Paid articleComment
NICHOLS, JOHN
COMMENT by JOHN NICHOLS WHAT WISCONSIN TAUGHT US R obert M. La Follette, the founder of this magazine, fell short in his independent progressive bid for the presidency in the fall of 1924....
Paid articleFurther Comment
BENJAMIN, MEDEA
FURTHER COMMENT by MEDEA BENJAMIN BEYOND VOTING: USING THE TOOLS WE HAVE Medea Benjamin has been an anti-war activist since her opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam in the early 1970s. She...
Paid articleLetters to the Editor
Keep on Keepin’ On! Friends, I’m ninety-three years old, no longer earning a real salary, and not sure I’ll be able to renew my sub­scription when it comes due in Feb­ruary. In the meantime, with...
Paid articleBlast from the Past
BLAST FROM THE PAST Author, activist, and muckraker Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known for his 1905 classic novel The Jungle, which exposed the harsh conditions for workers in the meatpacking...
Paid articleMiddle America
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF RIGHTWING POPULISM AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICS I n our new political reality, Republicans want to smash the state while Democrats defend the authority of...
Paid articleSmart Ass Cripple
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN FENDING FOR OURSELVES DURING A CRISIS P reviously, I’d never thought much about how— or if—I’d survive a natural disaster. Maybe that’s because it doesn’t feel...
Paid articleWork Won't Love You Back
Jaffe, Sarah
WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE THE ART OF SALVAGE T he floodwaters that washed away homes and roads and businesses and mines across the Southeast this autumn did not come solely to...
Paid articleFirst Things First
LUEDERS, BILL
FIRST THINGS FIRST by BILL LUEDERS IS PORN-MAKING PROF A FREE SPEECH HERO? S peaking with reporters in September after being fired from his job as a tenured profes­sor at the University of...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Someone’s Knocking at Your Door A news item from The Week: “In Florida, the governor’s election police unit recently went door-to-door asking voters to confirm whether they’d signed a...
Paid articleLabor Is on a Winning Streak
Gun, Smoking
SMOKING GUN SHUTTERSTOCK The union staged strikes in 2023 against the country’s three big automakers—Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis—and secured a 25 percent pay hike over several...
Paid articleFirst-Person Singular
Rosenthal, Marc
FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR by Not Another Bomb MARC ROSENTHAL Why as a Jew I Stand with Palestinian Liberation I grew up post-World War II in Madison, Wisconsin, in the shadow of the...
Paid articleOn the Line
Barre, Wayan
WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINE: THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER LIFE IN CANCER ALLEY I n the heartland of Louisiana, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a 150-mile corridor along the Mississippi River tells a...
Paid articleSupremely Conservative
Blum, Bill
Unions Get Bigger in Texas Open hostility to unions has left the Lone Star State largely without worker power. Until now. BY EMILY MARKWIESE T exas has long ranked at the top of the list for...
Paid articleBoeing Bows Down
Kelly, Kim
BOEING BOWS DOWN Ending an almost eight-week strike, workers at the aircraft giant win historic gains. BY KIM KELLY O n October 31, news broke that 33,000 strik­ing workers at aircraft...
Paid articleOne Year Later, Campuses Ban Pro-Palestine Protests 'In All But Name'
Srinath, Nell
One Year Later, Campuses Ban Pro-Palestine Protests ‘In All But Name’ Quietly rolled out over the summer, college and university policies target the student movement for Palestine. BY NELL...
Paid articleHow Venture Capital Flattens Neighborhoods
Green, Hannah Harris
How Venture Capital Flattens Neighborhoods A new level of super-gentri.cation is rapidly remaking your favorite places. BY HANNAH HARRIS GREEN I n 2021, Time Out magazine named...
Paid articleAcross a Hundred Muddy Hollers
Cook, Justin
Across a Hundred Muddy Hollers How mutual aid is .lling the gaps in the recovery of North Carolina mountain communities after Hurricane Helene. STORY AND PHOTOS BY JUSTIN COOK S herri...
Paid articleOne Question
What Should Progressives Do Next? SUZANNE KAHN Vice president of the think tank at the Roosevelt Institute Progressives have been citing the level of anger ruling parties have faced...
Paid articleMidwest Dispatch: Populism Gone Wrong
Lahm, Sarah
MIDWEST DISPATCH by SARAH LAHM POPULISM GONE WRONG The narrowness of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s victory in Minnesota proves that their “soft populism” didn’t go nearly far enough....
Paid articleInterview with Bryan Stevenson
Stockwell, Norman
INTERVIEW Creating an Era of Truth-Telling An interview with Bryan Stevenson. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL O n November 9, 2024, Bryan Stevenson received a lifetime achievement award at the...
Paid articleBook Excerpt
Jaffe, Sarah
BOOK EXCERPT In Between the Marches The system we call capitalism does not necessarily require police murders or prisons. But it does require death making. BY SARAH JAFFE L et us...
Paid articleFavorite Books of 2024
FAVORITE BOOKS 20 Each year our writers share their thoughts on books of note that have come out in the past twelve months. ELEANOR J. BADER I n the fifty-two years since Title IX of...
Paid articleOnce Upon a Time in America
Ali, Wajahat
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA BY WAJAHAT ALI THE FIGHT HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN O nce upon a time, a majority of U.S. voters rejected a capable, competent, and intelligent daughter of Black and...
Paid articleHemming and Hawing
Farsad, Negin
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD MAKING PUBLIC SERVICE SEXY P ublic trust in the federal government is at an all-time low. Well, it was in 2023, when only 16 percent of Americans said they...
Paid articleEdge of Sports
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN NO LONGER A NATIONAL PASTIME T he Los Angeles Dodgers have been crowned World Series champions, and Donald Trump has been elected to another term as President of...
Paid articleGrandma Was an Analyst (Origin Story)
Fried, Daisy
POEM by DAISY FRIED Grandma Was an Analyst (Origin Story) Grandma was an analyst, hated Barthes and Derrida, loved by her stepson, but loved Sigmund Freud. Otherwise unannoyed, a sociable...
Paid articleVox Populist
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER LILLY LEDBETTER FOUGHT THE BASTARDS— AND WON FOR ALL OF US F orget the cartoonish “Great Man” version of American history; nearly all social progress in our...
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