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The Champagne bottles ringing in the new year weren’t even dry yet when the mainstream media’s horse-race coverage of the 2024 presidential election was off and running.
In The Progressive’s first magazine issue of the year, we uncover news about the factors at play in the upcoming election. Samer Badawi notes that Arab and Muslim Americans could be a deciding factor in November’s presidential race. These voters, Badawi writes, have “no choice but to vote against Biden.”
Rann Miller reminds us of the full scope of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights work, which cautioned against the “three evils of society”: racism, excessive materialism, and militarism.
Publisher Norman Stockwell speaks with Sherif Mansour of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) about the appalling number of journalists killed in Israel’s war in Gaza. Michaela Brant talks with historian Heather Cox Richardson about how the United States arrived at this fragile point in history.
Cover artist Sebastien Thibault is based in Matane, Québec, Canada. Thibault creates illustrations that provide ironic or surrealist visions of political subjects or current news. He uses graphic shapes, simplified forms, and intense color to create symbolic images for publications like The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Economist.
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