Magazine
Erin Robinson
A Letter to My Niece
As a baby, you knew nothing of the definitions the world was going to press onto you later in life—black, female, Southern. The world had not yet told you who you were, who you could or should be. You just were. Read more
Editor’s Note: Letters for a Better World
More than 1,000 people come to The Progressive’s website every week to look at a single story: James Baldwin’s 1962 masterpiece, “A Letter to My Nephew.” Read more
DOD
The Seduction of Labels
We feel the urge to pit "Us" against "Them." I wanted to understand why. Read more
Kanter's Lonely and Dangerous Rebellion
Enes Kanter, of the Knicks, fears assassination by the Turkey government. Read more
Fed-Up Service Workers Push Back
In California hotel employees have agitated for laws ensuring better working conditions. Read more
Black Feminism and the Internet
In ‘Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets,’ Feminista Jones chronicles how a political philosophy and social movement has grown online. Read more
Ben Garvin
The Charter School Next Door
What happens when public education becomes a marketplace? Read more
Timuel Black’s ‘Typical’ Life
An activist and historian recalls his 100 years on the streets of Chicago. Read more
Comment: The Politics of Racism
To say that Donald Trump is a racist is to state the obvious but miss the point. Read more
Gabriel Barathieu
Hemming and Hawing: Maternity Leave
According to one poll, 93 percent of Americans agree that mothers should receive some paid leave. So why is the U.S. one of the only industrialized nations without institutional support for mothers? Read more
Allan Warren
How Do We Counteract Othering in America Today?
We turned to some leading thinkers and social justice activists to ask how we must reckon with prejudice. Read more
Todd Krysiak
Anti-Semitism in the Age of Trump
A new U.S. embassy. A snapshot of high schoolers giving the Nazi salute. A march of chanting Neo-Nazis. A shooting at a synagogue on Shabbat. What does anti-Semitism look like in today's America? Read more
Jake Naughton
On the Line: Finding Us
A collaborative and deeply intentional project to understand what it means, individually and in general, to be in love. Read more
The Will to Kill, in Black and White
Race has played a heavy hand in the fates of soldiers facing death sentences in the U.S. military. Read more
Joey L./ACLU
To My Fellow White Others
I am The Other in a society that needs binaries, that deploys notions of gender difference to sustain patriarchal norms. Read more
