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  •    inneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey stands behind US Attorney General Merrick Garland as he presents the Justice Departments findings from its investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department June 2023   MR Online

    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   MR Online

    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   MR Online

    ‘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 OchoaShutterstock Protesters line the highway in the Florida Everglades to oppose the construction of Alligator Alcatraz June 2025   MR Online

    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   MR Online

    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   MR Online

    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   MR Online

    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   MR Online

    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   MR Online

    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.

  •    Anna Nusslock had crocheted two rainbow hats sweaters and blankets for the twins she was expecting when her water broke at fifteen weeks   MR Online

    The original abortion bans

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 24, 2025 by Amy Littlefield (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 27, 2025)

    Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding.

  •    Grocery Photo Bruce Dupree   MR Online

    Is it time for a public option for groceries?

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 23, 2025 by Glenn Daigon (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 26, 2025)

    In communities where access to fresh food is scarce, public grocery stores can provide crucial resources at lower prices.

  •    A march in support of farmworkers detained by ICE in Burlington Vermont April 2025 Photo Migrant Justice   MR Online

    Farmers protest unjust immigration system

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 20, 2025 by Anthony Pahnke (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 25, 2025)

    If the President and his allies were serious about improving lives, they would back bills that reform our immigration system and protect the farm economy.

  •    Juneteenth   MR Online

    From celebration to cancellation: How Juneteenth became a casualty of America’s reactionary turn

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 17, 2025 by Terrance Sullivan (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 23, 2025)

    The holiday’s public recognition has fallen victim to‘anti-woke’ backlash, leading to a quiet retreat from public memory.

  •    National Guard troops stand guard at a building on June 9 2025 amid immigration protests in Los Angeles Photo Michael NigroSipa USA via AP Images   MR Online

    Sanctuary under siege: L.A.’s fight against ICE raids

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 16, 2025 by Isabel Rodriguez (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 19, 2025)

    Trump’s deployment of national troops is an early test in the fight against creeping authoritarianism.

  •    Titiwoot Weerawong   MR Online

    Trump wants to keep America digitally divided

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 2, 2025 by David Rosen (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 07, 2025)

    By threatening to defund Digital Equity Act programs, Trump has declared war on a program that benefitted many of his own supporters.

  •    Minneapolis Police Officers May 2020   MR Online

    A retreat from justice: Shielding cops from accountability

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on June 3, 2025 by Terrance Sullivan (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Jun 05, 2025)

    Trump’s dismantling of police reform is a gift to white supremacy.

  •    Piman Khrutmuang   MR Online

    Tariffs on medications will make America sick

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on May 6, 2025 by Eric Feigl-Ding (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted May 14, 2025)

    We might soon see the Trump Administration impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals. U.S. patients will suffer.

  •    People holding signs in support of activists detained under the Trump Administration Manhattan April 2025   MR Online

    What the doxxing of student activists means for the First Amendment

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on April 24, 2025 by Aaron Fernando (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2025)

    Is ICE following the lead of rightwing websites to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and activism?

  •    Chris Hayes reports on the Trump hush money trial from Manhattan New York City May 2024   MR Online

    The attentional Oligarchy

    Originally published: The Progressive Magazine on April 14, 2025 (more by The Progressive Magazine)  | (Posted Apr 27, 2025)

    Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez    Mural of Chávez in Caracas Univision   MR Online

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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