I miss his long view that social change happens from below, and at surprising times, and his advice that we shouldn’t get too down.read more

The Times Magazine shouldn’t even bother with “The Lives They Lived,” which is a conceit, anyway, and a slam against all the anonymous great people who die every year. Those, by the way, were the people Howard Zinn celebrated.read more

AIM redbaits Howard Zinn even after his death, and assails The Progressive for being “deceived” by him.read more

First, the FBI tried to nail him as a member of the Communist Party.

Then, they tried to recruit him as an informant.

Finally, they put him on a list to be arrested during an emergency.read more

On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Remembering Howard Zinn on July 4.read more

“His greatest wish was that there be peace in the world,” said his daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn.read more

"Yes, we’re dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don’t want war. We don’t want capitalism. We want a decent society."read more

Howard Zinn will never stop informing us on our ultimate responsibility of being human.read more

“Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens, ” wrote Howard Zinn back in March 2008. Zinn was a columnist for The Progressive and we are deeply saddened by the news of his death.read more

I want to talk about three holy wars. They aren’t religious wars, but they’re the three wars in American history that are sacrosanct, that you can’t say anything bad about: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II.read more

The American Revolution was not a simple affair of all of us against all of them. And who actually gained from it? Not the Indians.read more

Obama has to be pulled in the right direction.read more

I’ll be blunt: The Progressive magazine needs your support.
It’s one of our most important voices, and yet it is facing an acute cash-flow crisis right now.read more