'Why Should We Care? It's Only the Constitution"
The Patriot Act's sweeping phone surveillance programs are finally illegal, but some of the issues addressed in Nat Hentoff's December, 2001, editorial titled "Why should we care? It's only the...
View ArticleSenate Moves to Check Executive Spying Power
A revolution came to Washington in the wee hours of Saturday morning, just after the stroke of midnight. After 15 years of congressional deference to mass surveillance, Congress finally took...
View ArticleWatch: Mitch McConnell and Snuggly the Security Bear Beg to Spy
Mitch McConnell recently attempted to ram through a last-minute extension of provisions in the Patriot Act that have been used to keep domestic spying “legal.”
View ArticleFor Pride Month, Short Film Shines Light on a Coming-Out Story
Dylan, a new short film by Emmy award-winning filmmaker director Elizabeth Rohrbaugh based on her interviews with childhood friend Dylan Winn Garner, aims to show transgender kids that they're not alone.
View ArticleFilmmmaker John Ridley on Racial Inequality
Oscar winning director John Ridley spoke recently at the LA Film Festival on race, Hollywood and the current renaissance of black-themed film. Ridley won the Academy Award for writing "12 Years a...
View ArticleTears of Love
Photo by the U.S. Library of Congress In July 1963, The Progressive published Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter from his Birmingham jail cell, under the headline “Tears of Love.” We are republishing this...
View ArticleScott Walker’s Track Record in Wisconsin
For the last several years, The Progressive has covered Scott Walker’s reversal of Wisconsin’s progressive legacy. The Republican governor, elected in 2010, set out to divide and conquer the state with...
View ArticleThe Battle Over Education and Civil Rights
The test-and-punish model marks a cultural shift away from the War on Poverty, and that should be a red flag for progressives.
View ArticleRemembering Civil Rights Advocate Julian Bond
Julian Bond, a legend in the civil rights movement, was a powerful presence in Washington, D.C., where I had the good fortune to interact with him when I was Washington editor of The Progressive. He...
View ArticleTen Years After Katrina, New Orleans Is Failing Its Kids
Art by Brian Hubble I am a parent of three, a black New Orleanian with roots going back at least five generations. I’m usually happy and optimistic, but when I talk about what has happened to my city,...
View Article“THE BLACK PANTHERS: VANGUARD OF THE REVOLUTION” Film Review
One wonders: If Huey patrolled the “pigs” today to make sure they did not violate citizens’ rights and were held accountable for their misdeeds, would he carry a cell phone instead of a rifle?
View ArticleStealing Possible
Over 10,000 parents, students, and educators demanding an end to education inequality. Sounds good, right?
View ArticleRecess in Seattle: How We Won the Right to Play
No Child Left Behind has been bad news for school kids' time to eat and play.
View ArticleMissouri Athletes Bust Through Intolerance
University of Missouri’s black football players showed their power to organize against racism.
View ArticleRegistry for Muslims Has Already Created A Decade of Profiling and Fear
Did Special Registration for Muslims make us safer? Hardly. And the negative impacts linger.
View ArticleRemembering Rosa
"It was important to her that people understood the government, understood their rights, and understood the Constitution that we are still trying to perfect today."
View ArticleWhy Every Student Will NOT Succeed With the New Education Law
The new law disproportionately impacts the students and communities with highest needs, while continuing to profit a multi-billion-dollar testing industry.
View ArticleFrom Plantation to Planet
A few years ago I visited two plantations just upstream from Charleston Harbor, the entry point for about 40 percent of the enslaved Africans brought to North America.
View ArticleTeaching Rebellion: Schools Must Cultivate A Struggle for Justice
They ask me each morning, “When’s the next protest? “Has Rahm Emanuel resigned yet?”
View ArticleScott Walker's Administration Bad News for Wisconsin's Right to Know
A tough year for transparency.
View ArticleWhere the Oregon Militias Came From
Contrary to media coverage, the Oregon Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation is not led by ranchers who are tired of being pushed around by the federal government.
View ArticleRemember King's Commitment to Doing What's Right
Early in his life, before becoming committed to nonviolence, King himself owned a weapon.
View ArticleBuilding Things to Solve Problems: An Interview with Van Jones
"I have never met a single person behind bars who said, 'Well, I want to get out of here, but I sure hope the Republicans don’t help.'”
View ArticleScalia's Damage to Disability Rights
Scalia’s successor needs to be someone who understands, much more than he did, that disability rights are civil rights.
View Article‘You’re Fired!’ The Abuses of ‘Skilled’ Worker Visa Programs
The abuses that guest workers face aren’t due to not speaking English or not being well educated; they’re baked into the power asymmetries that the work visa programs institutionalize.
View ArticleWhy Clinton is Beating Sanders on Race
This presidential primary is now in Mondo bizarro mode, where almost nothing makes sense, particularly black adulation for the Clintons.
View ArticleNat King Cole Was A Trailblazer, In His Own Unforgettable Way
Nat Cole may not have swung direct punches, but he did battle almost every day of his life.
View ArticleHow Chicago Students Are Turning Trump Into Opportunity
In Chicago a million flowers are blooming. Every blossom is opening toward justice.
View ArticleTrump and Sanders: Two Populist Visions in Wisconsin
One is about a great democratic movement. The other is just about Donald Trump.
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