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IssueVol. 089 Issue 002 (April 1 2025)
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Paid articleEditor's Note
Tempus, Alexandra
EDITOR’S NOTE ABOUT THE CHILDREN You may be wondering why—as federal jobs, institutions, and grants are cut to the bone, as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and initiatives...
Paid articleComment
Weber, Emma
COMMENT by EMMA WEBER HOW YOUNG PEOPLE MAKE CHANGE In middle school, I was consumed by my anger and fear about the climate crisis, craving an out­let to channel my frustration into action....
Paid articleFurther Comment
Power, Kat; Martin, Kayde
FURTHER COMMENT by KAT POWER AND KAYDE MARTIN MY RIGHTS, REMOVED I n February, I took a mental health day to bring Kayde Martin, a student at the high school where I teach in eastern Iowa, to...
Paid articleFirst-Person Singular
Tamayo, Jonathan Diaz
El Laberinto de Soledad en América: A Rallying Cry “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist . . . . Then they came for me—and there was no...
Paid articleNo Comment
MAGA-nize Your Children A tattoo artist in Yuma, Arizona, drew flak for tattooing an American flag onto the arm of a nine-year-old girl at her parents’ request and then posting a video about it....
Paid articleBlast from the Past
BLAST FROM THE PAST Leola Snow Gunter was born in Georgia in 1879. She was a nurse and an educator and began working among a group of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. Later, she embarked on a...
Paid articleLetters to the Editor
Gaza Where does [Representative Greg] Casar/Progressive Caucus ( “Interview,” February/March 2025) stand on Pales­tine/Israel? Do they have the courage to condemn obvious genocide? —Allen...
Paid articleOn the Line
Rayno, Amelia
THE WILDFIRE VICTIMS WE DON’T TALK ABOUT I n early January, wild.res erupted on the outskirts of Los Angeles, California, and, fueled by especially dry conditions, a diminished .re department,...
Paid articleMiddle America
Conniff, Ruth
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF MIDWESTERN DAIRY FARMERS AND MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS DISCOVER THE TIES THAT BIND I n the middle of the chaos and ugliness emanat­ing from Washington, D.C., as the new...
Paid articleSmart Ass Cripple
Ervin, Mike
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN ON BECOMING COLLATERAL DAMAGE M y friend was very flustered as he told me recently about how he fell asleep on a Chi­cago public transit train, and when he...
Paid articleWork Won't Love You Back
Jaffe, Sarah
WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE OUR SHARED EXPERIENCE OF BEING UNDER ATTACK O ne of Donald Trump’s first acts as President was to sign an Executive Order insisting that there are only...
Paid articleFirst Things First
LUEDERS, BILL
FIRST THINGS FIRST by BILL LUEDERS REAL THREATS TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM I n early February, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order calling for the creation of a task force to...
Paid articleSmoking Gun
SMOKING GUN SUFFER THE CHILDREN: METRICS OF DISTRESS No nation boasts more often about its exceptionalism than the United States, and nothing is more relevant to gauging whether those...
Paid articleNo More Lone Wolves
Ryan, Melissa
No More Lone Wolves Two recent school shootings highlight the online networks of far-right extremist youth planning to carry out deadly attacks. BY MELISSA RYAN “i used to be mutuals with...
Paid articleThe Myth of a Safe Classroom
Barrett, Xian Franzinger
The Myth of a Safe Classroom As educators, we can no longer promise our students will remain unharmed. But we can fight alongside them. BY XIAN FRANZINGER BARRETT Xian Franzinger Barrett...
Paid articleFamily Separation Leaves Lifelong Scars
Fattahi, Nahid
PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES by NAHID FATTAHI FAMILY SEPARATION LEAVES LIFELONG SCARS Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans will cause unspeakable generational trauma. T o the outside world,...
Paid articleThe Child Care Crash
Covert, Bryce
The Child Care Crash Federal pandemic relief upheld a cornerstone of the U.S. economy in crisis. What happens after it abruptly stops? BY BRYCE COVERT A t the start of the COVID-19...
Paid articleDrawing the Line
Kariyawasam, Navin; Zhao, Eric
Drawing the Line The future of gender-affirming care nationwide hangs on a fundamental misunderstanding about the medical age of consent. BY NAVIN KARIYAWASAM AND ERIC ZHAO I n December,...
Paid articleThe Attentional Oligarchy
NICHOLS, JOHN
The Attentional Oligarchy Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it. BY JOHN NICHOLS Y ears before billionaire owner Jeff Bezos remade...
Paid articleWhat Can Be Passed Down
Baker, Brea
WHAT CAN BE PASSED DOWN How one North Carolina family fights the U.S. land policy that robs Black descendants of their inheritance—and their autonomy. BY BREA BAKER O ver the past year and...
Paid article'Freedom Is Therapeutic'
Mccarthy, Ben
‘Freedom Is Therapeutic’ In the United States, city and state leaders are calling for more involuntary treatment of people with serious mental illness, but one region in Italy has proven that...
Paid articleInterview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Stockwell, Norman
Organizing for Change—Then and Now An interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad about the Black Panthers and movements of today. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL D horuba Bin Wahad, then a leading member of the...
Paid articleBook Excerpt
BOOK EXCERPT A Place to Learn Your Place: Education and Racial Capitalism BY EVE L. EWING T he distribution of wealth in our country is deeply unequal, and institutions of higher...
Paid articleBook Reviews
BOOK REVIEWS The Plight of the Working Homeless BY BILL LUEDERS I n May 2018, the house in Atlanta, Georgia, where Celeste lived with her three children burned down. It was an act of arson...
Paid articleHemming and Hawing
Farsad, Negin
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD STUCK IN OUR BUBBLES R emember Apple’s slogan “There’s an app for that”? It was launched in 2009, marking a new era in which your “smartphone” was going to...
Paid articleOnce Upon a Time in America
Ali, Wajahat
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA by WAJAHAT ALI MAGA WILL SACRIFICE OUR KIDS FOR THE ‘BROLIGARCHY’ O nce upon a time in America, a violent, right-wing cult in service of a criminal predator took...
Paid articleEdge of Sports
Zirin, Dave
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN MARTINA STANDS WITH MONSTERS I n line with the theme of this issue of The Progressive, I’d like to dedicate the following to every transgender and nonbinary child...
Paid articleFriends
Chen, Chen
POEM by CHEN CHEN friends isn’t it warm? it’s too bad we’re leaving for good so soon. still, we have this chance & this to make of our pit stains & toe dust something more than sense. thank...
Paid articleVox Populist
Hightower, Jim
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER GRASSROOTS DEMOCRATS PULLING PARTY BACK TO THE GRASSROOTS E arly in the Civil War, General George McClel­lan’s Union Army was poised for a decisive vic­tory...
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