Learning from the Pandemic
Community health centers were on the frontline of the COVID-19 crisis. In the aftermath, they have adapted to new challenges.
View ArticleMiddle America: Getting Away from Toxic Partisanship
The us-versus-them mentality that is gripping our country doesn’t capture our deep economic and social interdependence.
View ArticlePreaching Hate in Guatemala
Rightwing evangelicals in the Central American country are taking a page from religious bigots in the United States.
View ArticleBook Excerpt: How to Change the World
The COVID-19 pandemic made it clear that inequality kills. We must respond.
View ArticleThe Billionaire Kingmaker (Still) Dividing the Nation
Despite a rebrand, Charles Koch won’t stop until U.S. democracy is dead.
View ArticleChicago’s Homegrown Resistance
Residents of the city’s Southeast Side waged a grassroots fight against a polluting industry and environmental racism—and won.
View ArticleThe Activist Offering: The Other Front Line
Post-Roe, providers and patients are working across state lines and new legal barriers to provide and access abortion care.
View ArticleFour Hard Questions: Size, Scale, Scope, Speed
To address ecological crises, it’s time to leave behind those who are holding us back.
View ArticleOne Question: How Can Local Activists Counter Conservative Attacks on Our...
In each issue of The Progressive, we pose just one question to a panel of political and social justice organizers, thinkers, and leaders. For December/January, we asked: how can local activists counter...
View ArticleWork Won’t Love You Back: Recruiting From Below
The strikes in Britain are a good reminder both that politics is local and that local politics have global ramifications.
View ArticleSmart Ass Cripple: The Right to Live
As long as the freedom to choose to die rather than live with a disability is seen as the right thing to do, I’ll take it as my duty to do the opposite.
View ArticleVox Populist: My Newspaper Died
At a time when we desperately need them to get better, our hometown newspapers have been reduced to little more than profit siphons.
View ArticleEditor’s Note: We’re in This Together
In this issue, we go back to the basics to explore how we can work our way out of this mess. The simple answer is we must start locally.
View ArticleFirst Person Singular: Because Black Votes Matter
I was a nonvoter for twenty-five years because I believed the lie that my vote didn’t matter.
View ArticleThe Local Power of Italy’s No Base Movement
A coalition of residents in and around Pisa are fighting on anti-militarism and environmental fronts to shut down a new military base.
View ArticleLaboring Under Discrimination
Seventeen states have taken steps to phase out subminimum wages for workers with disabilities, but Ohio isn’t one of them.
View ArticleComment: A Road Map for Change
Sometimes resistance entails less dramatic activities like showing up to town meetings and scrutinizing zoning regulations.
View ArticleFurther Comment: The Cost of Ignoring Rural Voters
If the Democrats could have won just five more districts, they would have held the House. And five districts were there to be won—in rural and exurban America.
View ArticleBook Review: A Lifetime of Struggle
The book is striking for what it is: a biography about Rosa Parks, a person who few have deeply examined, despite the importance of her contributions.
View ArticleEditor’s Note: What We Do with What We’ve Got
Anti-democratic forces are strong in the United States and beyond—but people committed to progressive change are stronger.
View ArticleMiddle America: The Fight for Democracy in the States
As Wisconsin’s new GOP chair advises voters to keep their seditionist options open and the state prepares to host the Republican National Convention in 2024, things could get scary.
View ArticleBook Review: Understanding the Seemingly Incomprehensible
A harrowing, up-close-and-personal look at the many predominantly white Americans who have been seduced by the growing movement of rightwing conspirators.
View ArticleSmoking Gun: Good News for Midwestern Progressives
Anticipated to be a Red Wave, the November 8 elections turned out to be more of an orange puddle.
View ArticleOne Question: What Lessons Does the Midwest Offer for 2024?
Mandela Barnes and others share what they've learned from living and doing politics in the heartland.
View ArticleIt’s Time to ‘Railroad’ the Oligarchs
Some lessons from the (almost) Great Railroad Strike of 2022.
View ArticleDefining What It Means to Care
Alberta Lessard, a Milwaukee woman institutionalized when police refused to believe her, helped to guarantee people across the country committed against their will the right of due process.
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