Magazine Interviews

Al Franken, From the Archives.read more

“We don’t have a right to be disappointed” by Obama, says the author of The Shock Doctrine.read more

“In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities,” says the environmentalist. “We’re the first people with no real practical need for each other.”read more

A 2004 Progressive magazine interview with Studs Terkel.read more

“I didn’t set out to be a political activist,” says the director of Boys Don’t Cry and Stop-Loss. “I’m just a human being who’s moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.”read more

“Something very drastic has happened to the very idea of America,” says the movie star.read more

“We’ve never been at a greater risk of American military action against Iran,” says the former Marine and U.N. weapons inspector.read more

George Carlin as political and social philosopher? Why not?read more

Director Sydney Pollack has been in show business for more than four decades.read more

Utah Phillips is a legend on the folk music circuit. A great storyteller and an unapologetic activist, Phillips sings about both current events and the old days of labor unions, hobos, trains, and tramping. Phillips, sixty-eight, has produced twelve albums and has appeared on seventy-three audio anthologies, doing both music and spoken word.read more

"The world community knows the basic principles of a solution.read more

Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Junot Díaz interviewed by The ProgressiveAfter catapulting to literary stardom with his brilliant short-story collection, Drown, more than ten years ago, Junot Díaz is back with his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.read more

“If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights,” says the feminist crime novelist.read more

“The media acts as a megaphone for those in power,” says the executive producer and host of Democracy Now.Amy Goodman is one of the leading journalists of our time.read more

“The problem for me with the other candidates is I don’t know what it is that drives them. What is it they really believe in that makes them get up in the morning and want to do this?”read more