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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • John Roberts

    The long con of John Roberts

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on August 21, 2026 by Bill Blum (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Sep 03, 2026)

    As a young attorney in the Reagan Administration, he aimed to destroy the Voting Rights Act and undermine democracy. Now the Chief Justice has finished the job.

  • home. (Photo: ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com)

    The housing crisis you’re not hearing about

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on July 21, 2026 by Todd Swanstrom (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 24, 2026)

    Availability and quality are two sides of the same coin.

  • Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in Gaza City, January 2025

    The ceasefire that redrew Gaza

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on July 14, 2026 by Hana Salah (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2026)

    Israel’s Orange and Yellow Lines have become a new geography of control.

  • ‘Welcome To Hell’

    Mohammad Sabaaneh’s desperate and defiant vision

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 23, 2026 by Paul Von Blum (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2026)

    The cartoonist’s new book ‘Welcome To Hell’ is a gripping exploration of life in Israeli detention facilities.

  • Brad Dodson/Unsplash

    America is NOT ‘One Nation Under God’

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 18, 2026 (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 23, 2026)

    Let’s reject false narratives about the nation’s founders and founding documents.

  • Fiona loves climbing trees in her neighborhood.

    ‘Our kids are not free’

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 8, 2026 by Courtney Blackmer-Raynolds (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 12, 2026)

    Laws across the country targeting transgender people are driving families to relocate.

  • Alexander Possingham/Unsplash

    Got a bedroom? Get a benefit cut

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on May 20, 2026 by Mike Ervin (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted May 27, 2026)

    A new rule change will allow the government to count having a place to sleep as income, and deduct it from SSI payments.

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    The problem with preemption

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on May 18, 2026 by Eleanor J. Bader (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted May 20, 2026)

    Laws deny communities the ability to chart their own course.

  • Members of the New York NVMA chapter rally in Albany, New York, on the National Day of Action for Medicaid, September 2025.

    The Nonviolent Medicaid Army is living Martin Luther King Jr.’s values

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on February 5, 2026 by Eleanor J. Bader (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 11, 2026)

    The NVMA is taking up the mantle of King’s vision to create a ‘nonviolent army of the poor.’

  • Law enforcement officers watch from a ledge outside of an ICE facility as a protester stands below in an inflatable frog costume on October 21, 2025, in Portland, Oregon

    How street-level direct action is challenging Trump’s authoritarianism

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on February 3, 2026 by Erik Gleibermann (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Feb 07, 2026)

    Community-based rapid response networks and irreverent performers are disrupting ICE at the source.

  • inneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stands behind U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland as he presents the Justice Department's findings from its investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department, June 2023.

    The fight to end Minneapolis’s use of Israeli surveillance technology

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on October 31, 2025 by Sarah Lahm (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Nov 05, 2025)

    Goonin: We had a petition for people to sign, expressing their opposition to the contract, and we collected more than 2,000 signatures.

  • Graphic by Christopher Cruz

    Tech giants are trying to cover up the environmental impacts of their data centers

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on October 22, 2025 by Julian Cooper (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 27, 2025)

    Silicon Valley is using legal loopholes and NDAs to keep the public in the dark about the water and energy being consumed by generative AI.

  • Easterling Correctional Facility in Clio, Alabama.

    ‘The Alabama Solution’ takes no prisoners as incarcerated workers struggle for their humanity

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on October 10, 2025 by Ed Rampe (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 21, 2025)

    Cellmates use cellphones to uncover ‘America’s deadliest prison system.’

  • Carlos Ochoa/Shutterstock Protesters line the highway in the Florida Everglades to oppose the construction of “Alligator Alcatraz,” June 2025.

    Iced Out

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on October 6, 2025 by Anna Lekas Miller (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Oct 09, 2025)

    Communities across the United States are shutting down detention facilities and refusing to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

  • Fake Teeth. (Photo: Pickadook)

    The South’s oral health crisis is a matter of policy choice

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on September 9, 2025 by Zachary W. Schulz (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Sep 16, 2025)

    Too many Americans are forced to live with dental pain until its underlying causes result in a medical emergency—but it doesn’t have to be this way.

  • A displacement camp in western Gaza City, August 2025.

    Nowhere to run: I am choosing death at home over forced evacuation

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on September 5, 2025 by Nourdine Shnino (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Sep 08, 2025)

    When ‘the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end.’

  • Yasemin Acar, Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee member, on a boat ahead of the GSF launch.

    Global Sumud Flotilla prepares to set sail to Gaza

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on August 30, 2025 by Saurav Sarkar (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Sep 03, 2025)

    Organizers are leading the largest civilian attempt to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.

  • Graphic by Christopher Cruz

    The consolidation crisis

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on August 25, 2025 by Caitlin Scialla (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 29, 2025)

    Mergers, money, and the erosion of patient-centered care.

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    Requiem for the Roberts Court

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on July 31, 2025 by Bill Blum (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Aug 04, 2025)

    Hasty rulings on cases in the Supreme Court’s growing ‘shadow docket’ have fundamentally altered United States governance.

  • A memorial for the lives lost in the Texas flash floods in Kerr County, Texas, July 2025.

    Climate denial paved the way for the Texas flooding

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on July 15, 2025 by Laurie Mazur (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jul 17, 2025)

    Fossil fuel executives lied about climate change. Public officials cut funds for climate science and disaster preparedness. This time, the result was catastrophic flooding in Kerr County, Texas.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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