The Progressive Magazine

12/19/2025

The Education Department’s reclassification of ‘professional degrees’ is the latest installment in a long history of excluding Black people, women, and working-class people.

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The Education Department’s reclassification of ‘professional degrees’ is the latest installment in a long history of excluding Black people, women, and working-class people.

12/18/2025

As the United States has slid into fascism, authoritarian regimes around the world have taken notice.

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As the United States has slid into fascism, authoritarian regimes around the world have taken notice.

12/18/2025

Educators and disability advocates say two proposals from the Trump Administration could weaken oversight of disparities in special education.

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Educators and disability advocates say two proposals from the Trump Administration could weaken oversight of disparities in special education.

12/18/2025

Despite being pushed underground by the Iranian government, dissident filmmakers like Jafar Panahi are using art to resist oppression.

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Despite being pushed underground by the Iranian government, dissident filmmakers like Jafar Panahi are using art to resist oppression.

12/17/2025

"After spending the past decade exposing the far-right takeover of the United States in the fight to save democracy, my view is that we’ve lost the battle. We can’t piece America back together again. We can only move forward and rebuild. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Many of us can probably concede that the United States, never a perfect nation, has been broken for some time. Wealthy individuals and the companies they run have long consolidated their power and continually squeezed the rest of us. If we no longer bear the burden of saving a system broken beyond repair, there’s an opportunity to envision something new. We can rebuild a nation that strives to care for its citizens and values the common good. We can create a government in which everyone has a seat at the table rather than only the wealthiest among us."

Read the full story by Melissa Ryan on The Progressive.

One year from the midterm elections, what’s next for a nation of states no longer united?

12/17/2025

Op-Ed: Our farming neighbors have had enough, marching to demand economic justice. Maybe U.S. farmers should join them, ensuring our government hears their demands and does not continue down the path of further farm consolidation and corporate monopolization.

Read the Op-Ed by Anthony Pahnke on The Progressive.

President Donald Trump’s trade policies are hurting U.S. farmers.

12/17/2025

Film Review: A road trip for the ninety-nine percent documents an archipelago of encampments against fiscal fiascoes in ‘Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream.’

Read the full review from Ed Rampell on The Progressive.

A road trip for the ninety-nine percent documents an archipelago of encampments against fiscal fiascoes in ‘Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream.’

12/16/2025

Our writers share their picks for this year’s best books.

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12/16/2025

If housing is a right, locking up people for having no place to live is just plain wrong.

Read the full story by Eleanor J. Bader on The Progressive.

If housing is a right, locking up people for having no place to live is just plain wrong.

12/12/2025

How much longer will people be taken in by the propaganda emanating from a party that controls every branch of the federal government, yet insists it is powerless to stop the destruction it has unleashed?

How much longer will people be taken in by the propaganda emanating from a party that controls every branch of the federal government, yet insists it is powerless to stop the destruction it has unleashed?

12/11/2025

The Progressive spoke with attorney Rachel Cohen in October about Broadview, resistance, and her new progressive policy platform

An interview with Chicago-based activist Rachel Cohen.

12/11/2025

Republicans’ scare tactics fail, as even the squatter likes NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Republicans’ scare tactics fail, as even the squatter likes NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.