Op-Eds
We founded the Progressive Media Project in 1993 to diversify and democratize our nation’s op-ed pages. We train activists and nonprofit staff on how to write powerful op-eds. Our op-eds are distributed nationally by the Tribune News Service, reach a potential audience of 150 million readers each year, and are regularly picked up by mainstream news sites, including the Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, Houston Chronicle, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Charlottesville Observer, and The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Our goal is to support voices that are underrepresented in the mainstream media.
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Why Are the Feds Blocking Marijuana Reform when Research Shows Cannabis Saves Lives?
For many people, marijuana offers a viable alternative to opioid use. Read more
Sep 4, 2019
Johnny Silvercloud
What Do Black Voters Want?
A new census of black America shows that despite a high level of political engagement, more than half of respondents think that politicians do not care about black people. Read more
Aug 29, 2019
Wikimedia Commons / Gage Skidmore
Trump’s Labor Pick Kept Workers in Pain
The President has had poor luck with labor secretaries, and now he is poised to nominate Eugene Scalia, whose anti-regulatory advocacy two decades ago helped fuel today’s opioid epidemic. That’s not the best credential for a future labor secretary. Read more
Aug 21, 2019
Donald Trump vs. the Statue of Liberty
How many budding job-creators will we now turn away? Read more
Aug 15, 2019
Scientists Can’t Be Trusted on Gene Editing
Scientific self-regulation is only as effective as the field’s ability to corral its strongest egos. In other words, it’s not. Read more
Aug 14, 2019
Senior Airman Briana Jones / U.S. Air Force
U.S. Jews on Trump’s camps: ‘Never again’
I’m not saying the events of the Holocaust are repeating themselves right now. I’m saying that, as a Jew, I carry with me the memory of what can happen when everyday people allow our leaders to scapegoat an entire community. Read more
Aug 7, 2019
Black Trans Women’s Lives Matter
Thus far in 2019, at least twelve black transgender women have been murdered. Read more
Aug 1, 2019
USDA
Farmers Need More than Trump Bailouts
“They’re suffering. The trade wars are not helping that whatsoever.” Read more
Jul 29, 2019
The Soft Power of Héctor Figueroa
Wherever working people were hurting, he was ready to organize. From immigrant rights to taxi workers, he believed in the power of everyday people, when organized, to change everything. Read more
Jul 24, 2019
Peter Haden
Migrants Are Fleeing Something Worse
Clearly, if the appalling conditions in detention centers are an improvement from what they are fleeing, these migrants have a sufficient basis for seeking asylum in the United States. Read more
Jul 16, 2019
