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If you're looking for lively and in-depth conversation about the urgent issues of the day, listen to "Progressive Radio" or air it on your station.
"Progressive Radio" is a weekly half-hour radio show hosted by Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine.
Since 2003, Rothschild has been interviewing activists, scholars, and artists who are making the world a better place. Recent guests include Jimmy Santiago Baca, Wendell Berry, Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower, Naomi Klein, Ralph Nader, poet Alix Olson, Greg Palast, Senator Tom Harkin, and Dave Zirin.
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These conversations are recorded at Audio for the Arts, one of the finest recording studios in the Upper Midwest. The quality is crystal clear.
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If you're a program director at a radio station and you want to run "Progressive Radio," feel free to take these commentaries straight off the website at progressiveradio.org. But please take a second to notify us by sending an e-mail to editorial@progressive.org.
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If you're a listener and you want to get "Progressive Radio" by podcast or RSS feed, you can do so by signing up here: PODCAST | RSS/iTunes.
To access the Progressive Radio archive, click here.
For more information, contact radio@progressive.org or call (608) 257-4626.
For technical support, contact Scot Vee Gamble at scotvee@progressive.org.
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CURRENT ISSUE: June 2013
Spying on Occupy Activists
Matthew Rothschild | How local law enforcement and Homeland Security help Wall Street.
The Commerce of Violence
Wendell Berry | The cheapening of life is surely the dominant theme of our time, from Guantánamo to the Boston Marathon.
Jason Collins, Meet Brittney Griner
Dave Zirin | Dave Zirin says Jason Collins and Brittney Griner can teach the guys in the huddle a lot.
e-Books
Preserving Our Home on Earth: 100 Years of Environmental Writing from the Archives of The Progressive Magazine. is now available from Amazon and Barnes&Noble.
"Since we only have one planet to call our own, it might be worth reading this book." —Bill McKibben
Welcome to The Progressive Magazine
Welcome to the Radio Offerings of The Progressive
We produce two things.
First, we offer a weekly half-hour interview show called "Progressive Radio," hosted by Matthew Rothschild, the editor of The Progressive.
And second, Rothschild does a short commentary every weekday, called "Progressive Point of View,” which runs approximately 90 seconds.
Both are free to radio stations and listeners.

















