Ben Adler reviews 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation, by James Carville, with Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza.read more

Eduardo Galeano writes a column for The Progressive. Here's one from last April that will give you a taste.read more

Discussing Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009

Speaking at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City on Tuesday, April 21, at 7 p.m.read more

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

One of the best books I've read in years is "Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin.read more

There is a high-stakes drama playing out in India these days, and the novelist Arundhati Roy is one of its most visible actors.read more

Dear James:

I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. I keep seeing your face, which is also the face of your father and my brother. I have known both of you all your lives and have carried your daddy in my arms and on my shoulders, kissed him and spanked him and watched him learn to walk. I don't know if you have known anybody from that far back, if you have loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man. You gain a strange perspective on time and human pain and effort.read more

Though we may count calories or carbs, we don’t really know where our food comes from. But when people die because of spinach—spinach!—ignorance can suddenly, horribly, turn deadly. How, exactly, do three counties in California cause grocery stores across the country to take spinach off the shelf?read more

“Bush is a thug. I think there is something really wrong with him,” says the writer.read more