Magazine Interviews

“I’m not a liberal; I’m a radical progressive,” says the star of Babe and the actor who played George H. W. Bush in W.read more

“There are lots of people in Hollywood who give lip service to progressive causes,” says the TV legend and star of Up.read more

"It is unacceptable that there are people who just can't go to the doctor when they need to." Here's a sneak peek at The Progressive's April issue with Edie Falco, formerly of The Sopranos and now starring in Nurse Jackie.read more

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