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September 15, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Beyond the Border

Beyond the Border Somewhere Over the Afghan Horizon, U.S. Drones Still Fly Despite its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the U.S. military maintains an “over-the-horizon capability,” which all…

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September 11, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Commemorations

Commemorations View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   September 11, 2001 was surely a moment of “shock and awe” for many people in this country. It was the first time since the War of 1812 that a foreign…

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September 10, 2021 at 10:29 PM

Did you miss the 20th Annual Fighting Bob Fest?

Did you miss the 20th Annual Fighting Bob Fest? You can now stream it here at your convenience!  View this email in your browser Did you miss Fighting Bob Fest this year? No problem! Here is the entire program for your viewing pleasure. …

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September 9, 2021 at 10:00 PM

Join us tonight for the Twentieth annual Fighting Bob Fest!

Join us tonight for the Twentieth annual Fighting Bob Fest! Our FREE event will premier tonight at 7:00 pm CDT!  View this email in your browser Neither rain, nor sleet..... Fighting Bob Fest will go on this year - but, j…

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September 8, 2021 at 9:36 PM

Who Are the Heroes?

Who Are the Heroes? Praise Be to Those Who Refused to Kill Two 2021 books take a fresh look at the unheralded heroes of the Vietnam War. by Paul Buhle …

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September 6, 2021 at 4:59 PM

Heading back to school book? Grab a book from our sale!

Heading back to school book? Grab a book from our sale! And also, a free gift for you! View this email in your browser Greetings progressive readers! We are excited to offer many new selections for your "back to school" reading list. To…

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September 4, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Remembrances and lessons

Remembrances and lessons View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Here at The Progressive we are saddened by the passing of the legendary progressive actor and activist Ed Asner. Asner died last Sunday at …

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September 3, 2021 at 9:59 PM

Back to school book sale!

Back to school book sale! And also, a free gift for you! View this email in your browser Greetings progressive readers! We are excited to offer many new selections for your "back to school" reading list. To see all of the titles that we…

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September 1, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Corruption, Classism, and High School Curriculum

Corruption, Classism, and High School Curriculum The Other Americans: Guatemala’s Government Is Defying Biden’s Anti-Corruption Efforts Anti-corruption efforts continue to be pushed back, …

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August 28, 2021 at 4:02 PM

Marches and struggles

Marches and struggles View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Today is the fifty-eighth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In Washington, D.C., and several cities across the…

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August 25, 2021 at 9:29 PM

America's Woes: From Infrastructure to International Relations

America's Woes: From Infrastructure to International Relations Five Ways the U.S. Created and Prolonged the Afghan Crisis The United States was involved in Afghanistan long before 9/11, fo…

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August 21, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Memories and blame

Memories and blame View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Watching the tragic images of Afghans attempting to climb on a U.S. aircraft to flee their country brings back similar memories from April 1975 i…

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August 18, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Back to School, Back to Masks

Back to School, Back to Masks Midwest Dispatch: Back to School, Back to Masks As the Delta variant surges among unvaccinated populations, it’s clear we must require students to wear masks …

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August 14, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Continuing battles

Continuing battles View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   As the Delta variant of the coronavirus rages across the United States, new safety protocols are being implemented, or at least proposed. But as …

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August 11, 2021 at 9:29 PM

The Fight for a Future

The Fight for a Future To Indigenous People, Line 3 is a Battle Over the Future Opposition is mounting to a project that threatens Native lands, and the planet. by Esty Dinur …

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August 7, 2021 at 4:04 PM

Atomic anniversary

Atomic anniversary View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   August 6 marked the seventy-sixth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, by the United States. The Progressive has written and spoken ou…

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August 4, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Erase Debt, Not Identities

Erase Debt, Not Identities Make the People Happy: Erase Student Debt Biden has a perfect opportunity to deliver progressive change to the millennials who voted for him. by Umme Hoque …

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July 31, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Heroes and criminals

Heroes and criminals View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   The hearings in Washington, DC, are now under way. One thing is clear: the country, and our particular form of democracy, were under severe thr…

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July 28, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Message to United States: Do Not Come

Message to United States: Do Not Come The Other Americans: U.S. Policy Is Deeply Implicated in Haiti’s Crisis Following the killing of President Jovenel Moïse, Haitians are hesitant to seek …

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July 24, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Eyes on space, real issues here on earth

Eyes on space, real issues here on earth View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Our Hidden History of the United States calendar, updated and augmented each year by the staff at The Progressive, reminds …

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July 21, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Land of Destruction, Home of the Incarcerated

Land of Destruction, Home of the Incarcerated From Negligence to Malevolence: How the Climate Crisis has Gone Critical Human-induced climate change has gotten so bad that our only hope isn’t …

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July 17, 2021 at 4:00 PM

Interventions and embargoes

Interventions and embargoes View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   “The Afghan war is over, so what about Iraq and Iran?,” ask Nicolas J.S. Davies and Medea Benjamin in a new article this week. “It’s tim…

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July 14, 2021 at 9:30 PM

Control the Guns, Cops, and Courts

Control the Guns, Cops, and Courts Unequal Justice: Don’t Count on the Supreme Court to Curb Gun Violence Now that conservatives hold a solid majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, we can expect …

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July 10, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Symbols and systems

Symbols and systems View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Two statues are coming down today with little fanfare in Charlottesville, Virginia. The city that, in 2017, was the scene of a violent rally and…

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July 7, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Freedom For Few

Freedom For Few Don’t Erase Disability From the #FreeBritney Movement Britney Spears’s abusive conservatorship must be viewed from a disability rights perspective. by Julia Metraux …

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July 3, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Rights and justice

Rights and justice View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   As the country experiences record-breaking and dangerous heat waves, award-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore illustrates that “There is, yet again, a…

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July 1, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Have you visited our online store lately?

Have you visited our online store lately? Get a new book for the summer and support The Progressive! View this email in your browser Greetings progressive readers! We are excited to offer many new selections for your summer reading list…

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June 30, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Climate Action, Democracy, And Other Broken Promises

Climate Action, Democracy, And Other Broken Promises Biden’s Position on Line 3 Undoes his Climate Commitments Climate activists and Indigenous leaders continue the fight against the Enbridge L…

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June 26, 2021 at 3:59 PM

What does justice look like?

What does justice look like? View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   The sentencing of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd last year in Minneapolis was handed down yesterday afternoon and Chauvin…

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June 25, 2021 at 8:59 PM

Get a new book for the summer!

Get a new book for the summer! What a nice way to support The Progressive! View this email in your browser Greetings progressive readers! We are excited to offer many new selections for your summer reading list. To see all of the titles…

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June 23, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Message to Biden: Reparations Now!

Message to Biden: Reparations Now! What I Told President Biden in Tulsa As a descendant of the Tulsa Race Massacre, I made the case for reparations. by Tiffany Crutcher …

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June 19, 2021 at 3:59 PM

"The task is not complete"

"The task is not complete" View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Today is Juneteenth. On this day, 156 years ago, on June 19, 1865, Union troops marched into Galveston, Texas and brought the news to 250…

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June 16, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Our Undemocratic Democracy

Our Undemocratic Democracy Waiting for Justice in Immigration Court Rescinding Trump-era restrictions would only be a start toward radical reform. by James Goodman …

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June 12, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Blowing the whistle so everyone can hear

Blowing the whistle so everyone can hear View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Fifty years ago, on June 13, 1971, The New York Times published a front page story that released portions of the now-famous…

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June 9, 2021 at 9:30 PM

On Power, the Pandemic, and the Post Office

On Power, the Pandemic, and the Post Office Saving the Postal Service The battle to protect the future of the U.S. mail system is winnable. by Bill Lueders …

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June 5, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Some new things, same old commitments

Some new things, same old commitments View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Here at The Progressive we have some new and exciting things to tell you about—but nothing has changed in our 112-year-long co…

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June 2, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Proud and Progressive

Proud and Progressive Edge of Sports: Turning Against Trans Student Athletes Youth sports provide hope and acceptance. For trans youth, who are at greater risk of depression, anxiety, and suicide b…

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May 29, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Knowledge and memory

Knowledge and memory View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Israel’s eleven days of attacks on Gaza, beginning May 10, have changed the conversation in Washington about U.S. relations with both Israel an…

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May 26, 2021 at 9:30 PM

Liberate Us, Everyone

Liberate Us, Everyone ‘Our Liberation is Connected with the Palestinian People’ Aaron Dixon, a former Black Panther Party captain, on why the struggle for justice in Palestine is inseparable from th…

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May 22, 2021 at 4:00 PM

Cease fire - at home and abroad

Cease fire - at home and abroad View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   A cease-fire has been established in the recent bombing of Gaza by Israel. This took place after the deaths of in excess of 250 Pale…

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May 19, 2021 at 9:51 PM

Rise of the Global Right: From the U.S. to Israel

Rise of the Global Right: From the U.S. to Israel How the United States Contributes to the Killing of Palestinians As Gaza suffers, Congress has been slow to counteract President Joe Biden’s plan to…

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May 15, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Sharing the perspectives of diverse voices

Sharing the perspectives of diverse voices View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Our Progressive Media Project began in 1993 with a goal of diversifying the nation’s print media by training new writers …

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May 12, 2021 at 9:29 PM

Tackling Trauma Together

Tackling Trauma Together Addressing Mental Health as a Community Issue in El Salvador Mental health project offers a series of workshops to help the residents of Arcatao work through trauma. by Ele…

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May 8, 2021 at 3:59 PM

Celebrating labor and a free press

Celebrating labor and a free press View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Last Tuesday was the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Pete Seeger. The legendary folk musician and activist died at the age of n…

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May 5, 2021 at 9:29 PM

People Over Pipelines

People Over Pipelines A Call for Biden: Stop Enbridge Line 3 The Canadian oil company is feeling the heat as Indigenous groups, environmental organizations, and other activists are demanding that the …

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May 1, 2021 at 4:00 PM

One hundred days and May Day

One hundred days and May Day View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Happy May Day!   On this day, one hundred thirty-five years ago, more than 80,000 workers speaking twenty different languages marched t…

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April 28, 2021 at 9:29 PM

The GOP, Tucker Carlson, and Other Bigots

The GOP, Tucker Carlson, and Other Bigots Antisemitism Meets Transphobia White nationalists and anti-trans feminists use the same conspiracies to target trans and Jewish folks. by Ben Lorber, Heron G…

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April 24, 2021 at 4:03 PM

Cautions and consequences

Cautions and consequences View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader,   Last night our recent cover story by Melissa Ryan was featured on MSNBC’s The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. In his introduction, Williams…

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April 21, 2021 at 9:14 PM

Chauvin's Guilty, But What About the System Itself?

Chauvin's Guilty, But What About the System Itself? Unequal Justice: A Victory for Racial Justice But long after the Chauvin verdict, the struggle will continue. by Bill Blum …

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April 17, 2021 at 4:00 PM

Addressing America

Addressing America View this email in your browser Dear Progressive Reader, Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark died April 9 at the age of 93 at his home in New York. Clark was a longtime advocate for civil rights, j…

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