6+ hour, 14+ min ago  (753+ words) Trump's attacks may, in the long run, be less damaging that what the press is doing to itself. By now, we've all seen ample evidence of President Donald Trump's raging antipathy toward the media. In recent months, the Trump Administration…...

5+ hour, 51+ min ago  (502+ words) Here's what these banned books mean to young women across the country. Raya Patel, a high school senior from Ridge Point High School in Missouri City, Texas, says her perspective on book bans is shaped by the lack of women-centered…...

5+ hour, 30+ min ago  (722+ words) Like the First Lady, I came to the United States in search of opportunity'and found it. Graphic by Christopher Cruz First Lady Melania Trump was recently in a spotlight of her own choosing with the release of a new documentary,…...

5+ hour, 58+ min ago  (1028+ words) The Progressive The psychologist Richard Bentall has noted that a child diagnosed with leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, in the 1970s faced roughly a 20 percent likelihood of survival, but in the present day, the likelihood of survival for a child…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (501+ words) The way Jackson carried himself in the sports world offers lessons progressives would do well to remember and carry forward. It was November 2011, and I was deep in a Sunday-morning slumber when the phone rang. Groggy at first, I was…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (535+ words) Congress is debating whether to open our public waters to the corporate seafood systems that exploit our marine resources. Trout in an industrial fish farm. For years, coastal communities like mine in New England have been rebuilding what corporate seafood…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (563+ words) John Garrison Marks's "Thy Will Be Done' reckons with the life and legacy of George Washington. George Washington at Mount Vernon plantation, illustrated by Nathaniel Currier in 1797. "Although Washington's will may have transformed the lives of hundreds of formerly enslaved…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (701+ words) The Reverend Jesse Jackson dramatically redefined what was possible in American politics. For those who chart the story of progressive politics in the United States'as'The Progressive'has for the past 117 years, and as Sanders has for much of his career 'there…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (192+ words) Steal This Story, Please!" is a call-to-action for independent media. Amy Goodman covering the Standing Rock oil pipeline protest, October 2016. That kind of self-confidence impressed Jeremy Scahill, who was living and working at the Catholic Worker House in New York…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (465+ words) Illustration by Rachel Monk An opaque, "Kafkaesque" citizenship process has led many foreign-born adopted children in the United States to fear deportation from the only country they"ve ever called home. Michael, a thirty-year-old in the American heartland, is surprisingly…...