‘We Are Coming to Get Our Check’
Black Americans have sought reparations for slavery since the Emancipation Proclamation. In the wake of Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund, could we actually make them?
Black Americans have sought reparations for slavery since the Emancipation Proclamation. In the wake of Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund, could we actually make them?
Donald Trump was the inevitable result of a country that has spent its existence profiting from slavery, economic exploitation, and a military-industrial complex
Israeli bombardment has destroyed most agricultural land in Gaza, but Mohammad Al-Jadba has remained steadfast in his commitment to his land and livelihood.
When families disappear from food assistance, they don’t disappear from need. For more than fifty years, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) has been a critical lifeline for millions of pregnant…
President Donald Trump’s Executive Order banning gender-affirming care for those under the age of nineteen has no bearing in other countries—but U.S. citizens living in Canada say they’re still facing obstacles.
Twenty-four-year-old Kareem Hassan Awad Al-Tanah woke up one morning in July 2024 feeling too weak to work. He had been spending his days selling children’s toys out of a stall on Gaza’s coast in Az-Zawayda, where he had arrived two months
Modern translations and adaptations of the Greek epic poem reveal as much about our present politics as that of the past. Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation of the Odyssey. Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation of the Odyssey, wh…
Wisconsin wunderkind lays out a strategy for Democrats to reclaim power, state by state. Campaign signs for Susan Crawford in Madison, Wisconsin, April 2025. If you believe, as Ben Wikler does, that democracy in this country is in a death s…
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in February 2025, I knew my life would become more complicated. I am among the estimated fourteen million Americans under age sixty-five
Progressive Perspectives, formerly the Progressive Media Project, was launched in 1993 to help 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 distri…
Authors Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams discuss democracy as an engine of change. Has the term “democracy” lost all meaning? I can’t be the only leftist who is skeptical of its political usage, given that it has been instrumentalized…
Grassroots opposition to corporate hyperscale data center expansion has generated a rare moment when members of both parties seem unified with many voters.