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Dear Progressive reader,
A lot has been happening here at The Progressive. Over the past year, we have made improvements to our website and our social media channels, and hired an additional member of our editorial staff. We continue to grow our print magazine and reach new audiences. A stunning and important new issue has just gone to the printer as I write this letter. In the coming year, you can expect even more great writing as The Progressive covers the 2024 electoral season, addresses the growing threat of authoritarianism, and presses our elected officials to respond to the needs of everyday people.
For more than a century, The Progressive brought critical information and analysis to readers across the country. Throughout our long history, we have continually taken the more difficult path—speaking truth to power, shining a light in the dark, smoke-filled rooms of the policy makers, holding the powerful accountable, and showcasing the efforts of grassroots movements and the victories of everyday people over corporate behemoths.
Today is no different. Our newest issue pulls back the curtain on attempts to rewrite the U.S. Constitution; covers the rise in labor activism across the country; and reports on the new home for break dancing at the 2024 Olympics. Plus we offer nine pages of book reviews by our staff and contributors, highlighting our favorite books of 2023.
But most of all, we lean into our proud history of speaking against militarism and violence as a way of solving conflict. As brutal wars are raging in Gaza and in Ukraine, our writers look at the history and root causes of these conflicts, and speak to the need for a ceasefire and a nonviolent resolution. As the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. said more than a half century ago in 1967, “Violence merely increases hate . . . Returning violence for violence multiplies violence.
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