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IssueVol. 089 Issue 003 (June 1 2025)
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Paid articleEnvisioning a Healthy Democracy
EDITOR’S NOTE ENVISIONING A HEALTHY DEMOCRACY On April 21, Mahmoud Khalil listened to his first child’s birth over the phone from a detention center in Lou­isiana. “During your first...
Paid articleA Media Reform Giant Whose Voice Will Be Sorely Missed
COMMENT by NORMAN STOCKWELL A MEDIA REFORM GIANT WHOSE VOICE WILL BE SORELY MISSED In this issue, we sadly note the passing of Robert W. McChesney, who died on March 25, 2025. McChesney was...
Paid articleThe Silence of the Dems
THE SILENCE OF THE DEMS On March 15, then National Security Adviser Michael Waltz informed fellow Trump Administration officials through their now-infamous Signal chat that a U.S. missile attack...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT Uniformity, Prejudice, and Exclusion Eager to purge “wokeness” within its ranks, the Pentagon earmarked tens of thousands of photos for deletion from its websites and social media...
Paid articleLetters to the Editor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR General Praise Keep up the good work. I’m ninety-two years old and must give up the fight. —Marilyn Dickman Ocala, Florida You have firmly my back, front, sides, and...
Paid articleHometown Pride
ON THE LINE by KATRINA WARD HOMETOWN PRIDE I grew up in rural Indiana, and did not know I was queer until six years after graduating high school. Small, overwhelmingly conservative...
Paid articleFighting Authoritarianism at the Local Level
MIDDLE AMERICA by RUTH CONNIFF FIGHTING AUTHORITARIANISM AT THE LOCAL LEVEL It can happen here. In fact, it is happening here. Forced disappearances. People seized and deported for...
Paid articleBlaming Those Who Are Left Behind
SMART ASS CRIPPLE by MIKE ERVIN BLAMING THOSE WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND When it comes to the issue of a person’s right to choose whether or not to terminate their pregnancy, I’m pretty...
Paid articleReclaiming the Common Good
WORK WON’T LOVE YOU BACK by SARAH JAFFE RECLAIMING THE COMMON GOOD Donald Trump didn’t run a campaign prom­ising to slash health care funding, but in his first few months in office, his...
Paid articleBlast from the Past
BLAST FROM THE PAST In March 1996, Anne-Marie Cusac, then an editor and investigative reporter at The Progressive, interviewed Urvashi Vaid, an Indian-born LGBTQ+ activist who had been the...
Paid articleCode Red for Higher Ed
FIRST THINGS FIRST by BILL LUEDERS CODE RED FOR HIGHER ED Of all the awful things that have happened in recent months as the Trump Administration has laid siege to free speech...
Paid articleAnti-Trans Bills Are All the Rage
SMOKING GUN ANTI-TRANS BILLS ARE ALL THE RAGE According to the American Civil Liberties Union, almost 600 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced so far this year. A substantial portion of...
Paid articleThe Original Abortion Bans
THE ORIGINAL ABORTION BANS Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding. BY AMY LITTLEFIELD Anna...
Paid articleThe Most Painful Cuts
NICHOLS, JOHN
The Most Painful Cuts Threats to the future of Medicare and Medicaid are fueling a popular backlash against Trump. BY JOHN NICHOLS During the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s second...
Paid articleMaking Space
Masciotra, David
MAKING SPACE Chicago’s Brave Space Alliance was established to serve Black trans people. In the Trump era, it welcomes everyone else, too. STORY AND PHOTOS BY DAVID...
Paid articleSigning Health Care Hope Away
Redmond, Brooke
PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES by BROOKE REDMOND SIGNING HEALTH CARE HOPE AWAY Evenings in our house oscillate between rou­tine and existential. I prefer the ones where we mostly muddle through...
Paid articleFirst-Person Singular by Maryam Hasanat
Palestine, Mary of
FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR by MARYAM HASANAT Mary of Palestine PHOTO PROVIDED I am not just a survivor, but a witness. A witness to destruction, resilience, and countless stories of...
Paid articleHow Solitary Confinement Kills
Quandt, Katie Rose
How Solitary Confinement KILLS Linked to suicides for decades, the practice remains standard across U.S. prisons and jails. BY KATIE ROSE QUANDT In April 2020, Markwhan Kitcher-Tucker, a...
Paid articleRewriting the Narrative on Public Housing
Hawley, Rachel E.
Rewriting the Narrative on Public Housing The history of public housing has been sensationalized for decades—but the new National Public Housing Museum tells a different story. BY...
Paid articleSanctuary Is Good Public Policy
Bruhn, Sarah
SANCTUARY IS GOOD PUBLIC POLICY On March 5, the mayors of Boston, Denver, Chicago, and New York City were summoned to Congress to justify their cities’ sanctuary status. The mayors’ explanations...
Paid articleStories That Must Be Heard
INTERVIEW ISHMAELDARO, VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Stories That Must Be Heard An interview with Palestinian writer and poet Mosab Abu Toha. On May 5, Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha was...
Paid articleBook Excerpt
Greco, Lachrista
The Guerrilla Feminist BY LACHRISTA GRECO I have never craved danger, because I have lived too many lives of it. I’ve witnessed and experienced violence online and offline and been told...
Paid articleBook Reviews
BOOK REVIEWS Surviving Across Time BY MARY BETH MARKLEIN Angry women populate Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, a deeply reported and engrossing...
Paid articleOn Jury Duty
HEMMING AND HAWING by NEGIN FARSAD ON JURY DUTY I am writing this while on jury duty. Almost nobody wants to be here. Like the dentist and the DMV, this obligation is met with an...
Paid articleA Cautionary Tale for Generations
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA by WAJAHAT ALI A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR GENERATIONS Once upon a time in America, a majority of voters decided to voluntarily forfeit their democracy,...
Paid articleFighting Back as a Team
EDGE OF SPORTS by DAVE ZIRIN SHUTTERSTOCK FIGHTING BACK AS A TEAM Erasure has always been a tool of autocratic regimes. If a group of people are deemed not only lesser, but...
Paid articleCatullus V and Suddenly, from the Veil
POEMS by GLORIOUS PINER These poems are translations of the ancient Roman poet Catullus and of the early twentieth-century Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, inflected by the poet’s modern...
Paid articleVox Populist by Jim Hightower
VOX POPULIST by JIM HIGHTOWER YES, TRUMP REALLY DOES WANT TO KILL SOCIAL SECURITY How ironic: The most inefficient bureaucracy in government turns out to be Donald Trump’s “Department of...
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