THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW | March 2012 issueread more

From the country of “freedoms,” the self-proclaimed defender of justice and international rights, from the country that fought against fascism in the 20th Century, from the country that has waged its latest wars by brandishing people’s rights to self-determination, from the country that has been built by immigrants—that is where the banning of several books, including one of my own, has originated, books snatched from students because the law deemed them detrimental.read more

Why more women are breaking the fear barrier.read more

"There's never been a successful progressive, radical, or revolutionary movement in this country that hasn't had a great soundtrack."read more

"I've never seen anything like the Occupy Wall Street movement in my life," says the author of The Shock Doctrineread more

"We're always trying to find ways that we can disturb power," says the co-founder of Code Pink.read more

Director Charles Ferguson’s first film, No End in Sight, snagged an Academy Award nomination. Ferguson’s second doc, Inside Job, won the Best Documentary Oscar. His acceptance speech was the finest moment of this year’s otherwise exceptionally boring Academy Awards ceremony.read more

Vandana Shiva is a burst of creative energy and intellectual power. Born in India in 1952, she is one of the Third World’s most eloquent and passionate voices on the environment, women’s rights, and sustainable development. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in New Delhi. In 1993 she received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize.
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Amartya Sen of India won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998 for his pioneering work on development issues. He has focused attention on the social sources of famine, poverty, and inequality, and he has highlighted the need for women’s empowerment.
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More than a decade after she burst onto the world literary scene with The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy is again working on a novel. She wouldn’t say much about it, other than that Kashmir figures in it. She once told me, “Fiction is the truest thing there ever was.” But she is also drawn to write about politics.read more

"The difference between human beings and animals is not an opposable thumb," says the musician and activist. "It's the fact that we create and consume art."read more

An interview with Wangari Maathai from our May 2005 issue.read more

"If I can have a writing career, anyone can," says the humorist.read more

"When you have a liberal class that no longer functions, then you cede power to very frightening, deformed figures."read more

“Instead of trying to hoodwink the public, we’re trying to hoodwink the corporations.”read more