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February
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 Vol. 089 Issue 001 (February 1 2025)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Editor's Note
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Tempus, Alexandra
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HYPERNORMAL HYPNOSIS By the time you hold this magazine in your hands, President Donald Trump will have been inaugurated for the second time. Barely a month into the new year, and TikTok may...
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Comment
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Miller, Rann
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COMMENT by RANN MILLER IT’S MORNING AGAIN IN AMERICA,
BUT WILL WE REMAIN ASLEEP? Whenever race is mentioned in a conversation and someone asks, “Why is everything about race?” or “Why must...
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Further Comment
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NICHOLS, JOHN
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FURTHER COMMENT by JOHN NICHOLS THE UNITED STATES HAS A COLONY PROBLEM
John Nichols, a contributing writer for The Progressive, covers politics for The Nation and is associate editor of The...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT In Trump We Trust In November, Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters ordered public schools across the state to play a video in which he urged them to join him in praying for...
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First-Person Singular
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Olawole, Ifeoluwa M.
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Black Womanhood and Hair as Resistance Let me tell you a story I randomly stumbled upon on Reddit, of all places. A tenth grader has been wearing her hair in a ‘fro. This is where I tell you that...
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Letters To The Editor
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sharing the News Yesterday, I mailed a donation along with money for four gift subscriptions. Thanks for your excellent magazine, which I love sharing with friends as a...
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Blast From The Past
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BLAST FROM THE PAST In December 1962, The Progressive devoted an entire issue to the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The resulting magazine both celebrated the anniversary and held up...
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On The Line
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Pindado, Encarni
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A BURDENED MEXICAN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM PREPARES FOR ADDITIONAL PRESSURE M exico’s immigration system is under pressure due to external policies, the threat of mass deportations of migrants already...
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Middle America
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Conniff, Ruth
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MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF WHAT U.S. PROGRESSIVES CAN LEARN
FROM EUROPEAN FARMERS
A couple of Spanish farmers visited the Midwest in December on a “solidarity tour” with stops in...
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Smart Ass Cripple
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Ervin, Mike
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SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN KEEPING THE PROFITEERS
OUT OF HOME
AND COMMUNITY-BASED
SERVICES
I often write about my pit crew, which is what I call the people I hire to come to my home...
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Work Won't Love You Back
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Jaffe, Sarah
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WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE MAKING LUIGI MANGIONE INEVITABLE
I t was a few days before Christmas when I saw it: The words “Deny, Defend, Depose” had been spray-painted on some sort...
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First Things First
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LUEDERS, BILL
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FIRST THINGS FIRST by BILL LUEDERS DEFEND THE PRESS AGAINST TRUMP’S ATTACKS
, T here is good reason to be concerned. President Donald Trump has laid bare his enmity toward the press, which...
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Mass Desperation
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Miller, Anna Lekas
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MASS DESPERATION
Trump’s promise of widespread deportations
won’t happen without de.ning a wave
of new ‘illegals’ into existence.
Anna Lekas Miller is an award-winning writer and...
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New Haven Is Preparing to Defend Immigrants Against Trump's Deportation Threats
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Tuhus, Melinda
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New Haven Is Preparing to Defend Immigrants
Against Trump’s Deportation Threats
Government officials, nonpro.ts, and activists in Connecticut are developing strategies to .ght Trump’s...
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How We Can Resist Trump's Deportation Plans
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Montange, Leah
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PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES by LEAH MONTANGE HOW WE CAN RESIST TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PLANS
T hroughout his 2024 campaign, Donald Trump promised mass deportations of the more than eleven million...
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One Question
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What Laws and Guardrails Exist to Restrain
President Donald Trump?
BILL BLUM Attorney and former California administrative law judge, columnist with Truthdig, and a regular contributor...
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How to Save a Saving Grace?
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Davis, Robert
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How to Save a Saving Grace? Over the past
half-decade,
guaranteed income
programs
have improved lives
around the country.
Now they’re under
political attack.
BY ROBERT DAVIS I t’s...
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Stripped of Labor Rights
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Lieberman, Hallie
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Stripped of Labor Rights
How the iconic male dancers at Chippendales won unionization— and then lost everything. BY HALLIE LIEBERMAN T hrusting their crotches before a construction site...
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Exporting Conversion Therapy
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Toesland, Finbarr
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Exporting Conversion Therapy
A trans-Atlantic evangelical alliance is popularizing a dangerous and debunked practice across African nations.
BY FINBARR TOESLAND A ttending the fourth Global...
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Indigenous Behind Bars
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Talvi, Silja J.A.
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Indigenous Behind Bars
In prisons and tribal jails across the country, the over-incarceration of Native Americans and Alaska Natives is a crisis hidden from view. BY SILJA J.A. TALVI A t...
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Interview With U.S. Representative Greg Casar
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Cook, Christopher D.
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INTERVIEW Can the Progressive Caucus Take Democrats in a New Direction? An interview with U.S. Representative Greg Casar, new chair of the Progressive Caucus. BY CHRISTOPHER D. COOK H e...
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Smoking Gun
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SMOKING GUN ALL THE PRESIDENT’S NATIVISTS*
Donald Trump has pulled together a dream team to implement his dark agenda.
It includes people who have no discernible quali.cations for the jobs...
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Book Excerpt
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BOOK EXCERPT Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education
BY JESSE HAGOPIAN Uncritical Race Theory I n the cacophony of today’s political discourse, debates about critical race...
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Book Reviews
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BOOK REVIEWS The Quest to Kill Sullivan BY BILL LUEDERS During a campaign rally in Texas, in February 2016, Republican presidential primary contender Donald Trump laid out a key prong of...
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Hemming and Hawing
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Farsad, Negin
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HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD ENDING EVER-ESCALATING CEO PAY
C orporate America has a public relations problem. Everyone hates it. Yes, it’s still the most impressive force in global...
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Once Upon a Time in America
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Ali, Wajahat
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA by WAJAHAT ALI WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF ‘BROLIGARCHY, INC.’ , , O nce upon a time in the United States of America, a plurality of voters decided to...
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Edge of Sports
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Zirin, Dave
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EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN JESSE OWENS AND THE ANNIVERSARY
WE SHOULD REMEMBER
I n 2026, we can expect a great deal of fanfare and perhaps even a revival of interest in the life and times...
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Poem
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Naffis-Sahely, Andr
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POEM by ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY The Regime of the Colonels I think of Ritsos on Makronissos building his own prison
rock by rock, like Sisyphus, watching his friends
hanging off the branches of...
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Vox Populist
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Hightower, Jim
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VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER JIMMY CARTER’S LIGHT EXPOSES
DONALD TRUMP’S DARKNESS
Y ou’re not fooling me, Jimmy Carter. You did that on purpose! Dying when you did, I mean. You chose late...
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April
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