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.
Crises Highlight Racial Inequity
The current crises spotlight our nation’s economic and racial injustice, but they did not create it. Read more
Aug 4, 2020
Tony Webster
Congress Must Act to Save Public Transit
Our cities, our essential workers and our economy all rely on public transportation. Read more
Aug 3, 2020
Nam Y. Huh AP
Grocery Workers Deserve Hero Pay
It would acknowledge that their work is essential and allow them to put food on their own tables. Read more
Jul 30, 2020
Workers Need the Right to Sue
Republicans want to give corporate CEOs a five-year “get out of jail free card” for jeopardizing the health and safety of their workers while threatening the overall economic recovery. Read more
Jul 29, 2020
Doug Brown, ACLU of Oregon
A Rightwing Fantasy Comes True
Surely, no one knew then that the president who would really send a secret force of camouflaged federal agents in unmarked cars into the streets of American cities would be one of their own. Read more
Jul 28, 2020
Yash Mori
Defund the Bloated U.S. Military
To reduce our reliance on policing and prisons, racial justice leaders are urging that resources devoted to law enforcement be used instead to address the root causes of violence. Read more
Jul 24, 2020
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Why Environmental Racism Must End
Since Donald Trump came to office, his administration has rolled back 100 environmental safeguards, devastated public lands, and made the world less safe for all of us. Read more
Jul 23, 2020
The ADA as a Work in Progress
On the ADA’s 30th anniversary, we should reflect on what’s still missing to make sure that all people with disabilities are included in the United States. Read more
Jul 22, 2020
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The Problem with Meat
The meat, dairy, and egg industries are unhealthy, unhappy, and unsafe. It’s time we put them out to pasture. Read more
Jul 20, 2020
We Must Protect the Fall Election
Trump is working overtime to strip the voter rolls, undermine vote-by-mail, and discard the electronic ballot images that are key to a rapid, reliable vote count. Read more
Jul 16, 2020
