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The Progressive is an
American monthly magazine of politics and culture with a pronounced
leftist perspective. Known for its
pacifism, it has strongly opposed military interventions, such as the US-led
invasion of Iraq in 2003. The magazine also devotes much coverage to
civil rights,
civil liberties, and
environmentalism. It has opposed
nuclear weapons from August 1945 to the present.
History
The Progressive was founded in January 9, 1909, by
U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. of
Wisconsin. It was first called
La Follette's Weekly; in 1929, its name was changed to
The Progressive.
The campaigns
The Progressive has led include the fight to stay out of
World War I, opposition to the
Palmer Raids in the early 1920s, calling for action against unemployment during the
Depression, exposing
McCarthyism in the 1950s, and
denouncing U.S. involvement in Indochina.
In the 1960s, it was a leading voice in the
American civil rights movement, publishing the writing of
Martin Luther King Jr. five times, and publishing
James Baldwin's
open letter "My Dungeon Shook - Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation," the first section of
The Fire Next Time. In the 1970s, the magazine devoted attention to the emerging environmentalist movement, beginning with a special
Earth Day issue in 1970 entitled "The Crisis of Survival."
In 1979,
The Progressive won national attention for its article by
Howard Morland, "The
H-bomb Secret: How we got it and why we're telling it," which the U.S. government suppressed for six months. The magazine prevailed in a landmark
First Amendment case,
United States v. The Progressive, was overturned a
prior restraint.
In the 1980s, it published stories about U.S. support for
death squads in
Central America. During the 1990s,
The Progressive campaigned on behalf of
immigrants, women on
welfare,
LGBT social movements, and
prisoners. In recent years, it worked to end the
economic sanctions on Iraq, to prevent U.S. involvement in the
Colombian civil war, to adopt a more liberal policy toward
drugs, and to institute public funding of political campaigns.
WXXM-FM in
Madison, Wisconsin, an
Air America Radio affiliate, features a "Progressive Radio" show with Matthew Rothschild. The half-hour show is broadcast on terrestrial and Internet radio stations across the country, as is a daily audio editorial, The Progressive Point of View, which features Rothschild.
Contributors
Throughout the years,
The Progressive has published leading social critics such as
Jane Addams,
Helen Keller,
Jack London,
Clarence Darrow,
Upton Sinclair,
Lincoln Steffens,
Carl Sandburg,
George Orwell,
Mike Males,
A.J. Muste,
James Baldwin,
I.F. Stone,
June Jordan,
Noam Chomsky,
Edward Said,
Nat Hentoff and
Molly Ivins.
It has also published liberal politicians such as
Adlai Stevenson,
J. William Fulbright,
George McGovern,
Russ Feingold,
Paul Wellstone,
Dennis Kucinich and
Bernie Sanders.
Currently the magazine's regular contributors include
David Barsamian,
Kate Clinton,
Susan Douglas,
Will Durst,
Barbara Ehrenreich,
Eduardo Galeano,
Fred McKissack,
John Nichols,
Adolph L. Reed, Jr., and
Howard Zinn.
The editor of
The Progressive is
Matthew Rothschild. Its editorial offices are in
Madison, Wisconsin.
Further Information
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