Years1920s
Years1930s
Years1940s
Years1950s
Years1960s
Years1970s
Years1980s
Years1990s
Years2000s
Years2010s
Years2020s
Year2020
Year2021
Year2022
Year2023
Year2024
MonthFebruary
MonthApril
MonthJune
MonthAugust
IssueVol. 088 Issue 004 (August 1 2024)
Cover••Cover Page••
Contents••Contents••
Paid articleRound and Round We Go
Tempus, Alexandra
ROUND AND ROUND WE GO This time of year, those of us living in the United States often return to routines—of work, of school, of mass civic participation. Yet in an age of upheaval, many of our...
Paid articleThey Have a Plan for That
Nelson, Anne
THEY HAVE A PLAN FOR THAT Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” was published in April 2023, but it has only recently begun to get the attention it deserves. The...
Paid articleKamala Harris Is Keeping Abortion Rights Front and Center
NICHOLS, JOHN
KAMALA HARRIS IS KEEPING ABORTION RIGHTS FRONT AND CENTER Just as Joe Biden made history on September 26, 2023, by becoming the first President of the United States to join the picket line of a...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Librarians Beware Since 2021, at least five states—Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee—have enacted laws allowing public and school librarians to be imprisoned for...
Paid articleBlast from the Past
At ninety-five, Noam Chomsky has led an extraordinary life by any measure. One index ranked him as the eighth most cited person in history, of a top-ten list that also included Aristotle,...
Paid articleLetters to the Editor
General Thanks Received the June/July 2024 copy of The Progressive’s media literacy issue. Thanks, good reading. —Seth Silberstein The Bronx, New York Thank you for the good work that you do to...
Paid articleDrawing Under Occupation
Sabaaneh, Mohammad; Kennedy, Hank
DRAWING UNDER OCCUPATION The works of Palestinian political cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh capture, in stark relief, the costs of war and apartheid. Sabaaneh, who currently lives in Ramallah in the...
Paid articleDon't Believe the Trumpworld Hype
Conniff, Ruth
DON’T BELIEVE THE TRUMPWORLD HYPE The Republican National Convention was more than a coronation. After the failed attempt on his life at a rally in Pennsylvania, just days before the convention...
Paid articleWhen Polling Places Aren't Accessible, Either
Ervin, Mike
WHEN POLLING PLACES AREN’T ACCESSIBLE, EITHER It’s hard to actively participate in democracy if you have a disability. Just exercising your right to vote is more cumbersome than it is for people...
Paid articleToward a Just Transition
Jaffe, Sarah
TOWARD A JUST TRANSITION As the last Chevrolet Cruze rolled off the line at the General Motors (GM) plant in Lord­stown, Ohio, in March 2019, the workers there had no idea what would be next for...
Paid articleMoving Forward, Looking Back
LUEDERS, BILL
MOVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK Much has been happening on the First Amendment front. Here are two topics that use past coverage to inform current events, plus a roundup of recent U.S. Supreme Court...
Paid articleTrump vs. Biden on the Climate Emergency
Gun, Smoking
TRUMP VS. BIDEN ON THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY No issue is more important to the future of the planet than the threat of climate change, and none presents sharper contrasts between the two major...
Paid articleCan Democrats Ride Ballot Initiatives to Victory?
Daigon, Glenn
Can Democrats Ride Ballot Initiatives to Victory? The party realizes that progressive issues win voters, even when their candidates don’t. BY GLENN DAIGON Decades ago, a wealthy lawyer running...
Paid articleQ: What Do We Do About the Supreme Court?
Tushnet, Alexa Barrett, Mark; reply, Lisa Graves
Q: What Do We Do About the Supreme Court? ALEXA BARRETT Director of communications for Take Back the Court Action Fund Supreme Court expansion is essential to everything we care about. The...
Paid articleHow to Make a 'War Reserve' Nuclear Bomb
Carrier, Jim
How to Make a ‘War Reserve’ Nuclear Bomb The dark art of crafting nuclear ‘pits’ was almost lost. Now it’s ramped up into a multibillion dollar industry. BY JIM CARRIER Sometime in the next few...
Paid articleThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Antiques Roadshow
Rapoport, Roger
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Antiques Roadshow As new U.S. nuclear construction grinds to a halt, one company aims to restart a Michigan reactor that violated fifty codes—in just one year....
Paid articleChild Care Does Not Need to Be a Crisis
Isser, Mindy
Child Care Does Not Need To Be a Our system leaves parents with unreliable waitlists and mortgage-size payments, while teachers go overburdened and underpaid. BY MINDY ISSER I have always...
Paid articleTwo Competing Visions of a Populist Education System
Bryant, Jeff
Two Competing Visions of a Populist Education System Community schools and the ‘parent empowerment’ movement offer conflicting models for what schools should look like. BY JEFF BRYANT When...
Paid articleLessons From the Campaign of 1924
Drake, Richard
Lessons From the Campaign of 1924 What ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette’s third-party presidential run can teach us a century later about empire and race in politics. BY RICHARD DRAKE Four years...
Paid articleThe Way Democracy Crumbles
Whitney, Jake
The Way Democracy Crumbles With a government by the people on the line, what of its most sacred pillars? BY JAKE WHITNEY During former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial in May, in...
Paid articleMore Than the Lesser of Two Evils
NICHOLS, JOHN
More Than the Lesser of Two Evils The multi-party democracies of Europe show us how opening up the political field can help thwart fascism. BY JOHN NICHOLS The thing to remember about...
Paid articleMedicaid Unwinding Unfairly Puts Patients at Risk
Litchman, Rachel
Medicaid Unwinding Unfairly Puts Patients at Risk I spent the last few weeks of March counting down the days I had left to get health care coverage. A change in income meant I would soon be...
Paid articleA New (Old) Sheriff in Town
Roberts, Zach D.
A New (Old) Sheriff in Town An interview with Jessica Pishko. BY ZACH D. ROBERTS A conversation about sheriffs might conjure memories of The Andy Griffith Show’s Sheriff Andy Taylor imparting...
Paid articleBook Excerpt
The Assault on Voting Rights Has a Long History Rightwing challenges to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 began just days after it was signed into law. BY DAVID DALEY To many people, the Voting...
Paid articleBook Reviews
They Messed with the Wrong Librarian BY BILL LUEDERS In July 2022, Amanda Jones attended a public library board meeting in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, after learning there would be a discussion...
Paid articleReform the Supreme Court or Bow to MAGA
Ali, Wajahat
REFORM THE SUPREME COURT OR BOW TO MAGA Once upon a time in America, there was an unelected branch of government with nine Justices who served lifetime appointments and had the power to undo nearly...
Paid articleCaitlin Clark and the Weaponization of Whiteness
Zirin, Dave
CAITLIN CLARK AND THE WEAPONIZATION OF WHITENESS The numbers don’t lie: The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is, at long last, having its moment in the sun. After more than...
Paid articleOurs and Gaza
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Ours For President Joe Biden I pledge allegiance to the beautiful boy running down the road with a white flag and a backpack, but he can’t hear me. We love the dusty girl twirling in a green...
Paid articleVox Populist
Hightower, Jim
WHEN CORRUPT JUSTICES DEFINE OFFICIAL CORRUPTION If the six rightwing dogmatists who now literally rule the U.S. Supreme Court wonder why 70 per­cent of the American people consider them some­where...
MonthOctober
MonthDecember
Year2025
Kanda Software, Inc.