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The progressive movement in America has lost a beautiful voice. Andrea Lewis, radio host at KPFA and a contributing writer for The Progressive magazine and Progressive Media Project, died this weekend of a massive heart attack. She was only 52.read more

She believed in the power of laughter. She knew it could keep you from getting depressed or burning out. And she knew it could deflate the abusers of power.read more

The Progressive lost a loyal, longtime subscriber two months ago, and the peace movement and the feminist movement lost a creative voice. Her name was Erena Rae. A graphic designer and artist, Erena Rae used her talents to denounce poverty, the death penalty, and war (and, in her last few years, the Bush Administration), and to promote disarmament, to foster compassion, and to champion feminism. read more

John Kenneth Galbraith, the embodiment of Democratic liberalism, died on April 29. For more than two decades he served on The Progressive’s Editorial Advisory Board, and we are saddened by his passing, and we will miss his words of piquancy.read more

He was one of the very few who felt equally at home with America’s power elite and with The Progressive.read more

May 1, 2006

My friends, we can’t preserve the Earth while being an empire.

We can’t preserve our democracy while being an empire.read more

July 14, 2005

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July 14, 2005

I went to the memorial service for Gaylord Nelson, a giant of progressive politics.read more

January 21, 2003

When Mamie Till Mobley died on Jan.read more

Here the speaker of "I Stand Here Ironing" looks back on the difficulties of young, single motherhood: "She was a miracle to me, but when she was eight months old I had to leave her daytimes with the woman downstairs to whom she was no miracle at all, for I worked or looked for work and for Emily's father, who "could no longer endure" (he wrote in his good-bye note) "sharing want with us."read more