Dispatches
Dispatches
News from the front lines of progressive grassroots politics.
The Other Americans: Violence Against LGBTQ at Home and on the Migrant Trail
The Honduran government justifies the violence against the LGBTQ community by invoking article 142.3 of the Law of Police and Social Coexistence, which protects “good manners and public morals.” This law cost twenty-seven-year-old Jonathan Cruz his l more
Dec 7, 2018
The Will of the People, Ignored
On power-grab bills, Wisconsin spoke, the GOP didn’t listen. Here’s the evidence. more
Dec 7, 2018
Chessum/Supervision. Photo courtesy of Magnolia.
Triumph of the Swill: New Doc Puts Roger Ailes in the No Spin Zone
The best exposé on Fox in years dives into its former chief’s history of racism and the sexual misconduct that would ultimately be his undoing. more
Dec 6, 2018
White House
How George H.W. Bush and Other Conservatives Undermined his Americans with Disabilities Act Legacy
Bush deserves credit for what he did to make the ADA happen. But federal civil rights laws are just empty symbolic gestures unless the executive branch vigorously enforces them and judges take them seriously. more
Dec 6, 2018
chmeredith
How Progressives Are Changing America’s South
“If we can progress in the belly of the beast, we can have progress anywhere.” more
Dec 6, 2018
Scott Pruitt caricature by DonkeyHotey
Hemming and Hawing: Getting Away with It
I propose to all the women out there—take a page out of the dude book, and audaciously actualize those goals! more
Dec 6, 2018
The Republican Strategy Against Democracy
The Wisconsin GOP power grab is part of a larger national strategy that attacks the pillars of democratic governance. Progressive editor-at-large Ruth Conniff lays it all out on ‘Democracy Now!’ more
Dec 5, 2018
Claire VanValkenburg
Wisconsin Republicans Spurn the Will of the People
Just before sunrise on Wednesday, a Republican-controlled senate approved bills to restrict early voting and curb the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general. more
Dec 5, 2018
George H.W. Bush: Lying in State
The term “lying in state” is used when former leaders are commemorated after death, and more rarely applied when leaders are in office. We look back on our coverage of the former President. more
Dec 5, 2018
Norman Stockwell
Wisconsin Republicans Make Unprecedented Power Grab. The People Push Back
Citizens jammed the halls and chanted outside locked hearing-room doors, while Republican legislators rushed through a series of bills designed to take power away from the incoming governor. more
Dec 4, 2018
Free the Free Press from Wall Street Plunderers
Local ownership of the press matters, as some 1,300 of our towns have learned after Wall Street’s corporate demigods of greed swept in to seize their paper, gut its journalistic mission, and devour its assets. more
Dec 4, 2018
Zina Saunders
Wisconsin’s GOP Scheme to Keep Scott Walker as Zombie Governor
Republicans are using their gerrymandered control of the state to push through a slew of power-grabbing bills before the newly elected Democratic governor and attorney general can take office. more
Dec 3, 2018
Felton Davis
Foreign Correspondent: Senate Tumult Reflects Popular Discontent with Yemen War
75 percent of Americans oppose the Yemen War and 57 percent oppose all arms sales to Saudi Arabia. more
Dec 3, 2018
Gladi Aguilar
No Way In: Trump’s Stranglehold on Asylum
Asylum seekers at official ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border are running into countless obstacles and rejections, part of a “horrendous and blatantly illegal” effort to discourage those seeking safe haven. more
Nov 30, 2018
The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East
When children waste away to literally nothing while fourteen million people face conflict driven famine, a hue and cry—yes, a caterwaul —most certainly should be raised, worldwide. more
Nov 29, 2018
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Violence from the Far-Right is Growing. Why Aren’t We Doing More to Stop it?
Newly elected House Democrats promise to crack down on “domestic terrorism.” more
Nov 29, 2018
Montanasuffragettes
Are We Ready to Listen to Sexual Assault Survivors Yet?
As we experience a cultural shift around sexual assault, there are concrete steps we can take to help survivors. more
Nov 28, 2018
A Mexican Perspective on Trump’s Border Crisis
“You’ve got a President of the United States who is a racist. Instead of having the United States be a world leader in human rights, Trump wants to be world leader of racism. It’s very difficult.” more
Nov 28, 2018
A Small Town Was Saved by Refugees, Now It’s Fighting Repression from the Italian State
The mayor who helped create Italy’s “hospitality town” has been arrested and banned, even as he is lauded for his efforts to welcome immigrants, reinvigorating the local culture and economy. more
Nov 27, 2018
