-
Dec 6, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
Robert M. La Follette, the founder of this magazine, fell short in his independent progressive bid for the presidency in the fall of 1924. It was a tough loss for a campaign that opposed corporate monopolies, promised to strengthen unions, supported civil rights, and dared to challenge the “dictatorship of plutocracy” that the U.S. Senator from Wisconsin saw looming over the United States.
-
Oct 8, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
When Vice President Kamala Harris and I have spoken in the past about her political influences, one name always comes up: Shirley Chisholm. Harris eagerly expresses her admiration for the late New York Democrat, who, in 1968, became the first Black woman elected to Congress and, in 1972, the first Black woman to mount a serious campaign for the presidency of the United States.
Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings
By Shirley Chisholm, edited by Zinga A.
-
Aug 15, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
The thing to remember about American politics is that the deck is stacked. In most races, in most places, the winner of the election is decided before the campaign begins: by the gerrymandering of election district lines, by the power of incumbency, by the influence of money, and by media outlets that prefer the manufactured drama of a two-party grudge match.
-
Aug 13, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
Just as Joe Biden made history on September 26, 2023, by the first President of the United States to join the picket line of a striking union, Kamala Harris also made history on March 14, 2024, as the first Vice President of the United States to visit an abortion clinic.
-
Aug 7, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
Kamala Harris set up a virtual primary for the Democrats who wanted to join the party’s 2024 ticket as her vice-presidential running mate. She offered them all—governors and Senators, progressives and centrists, East Coasters and Midwesterners, Southerners and Westerners—an opportunity to secure the nomination. And they all gave it their best.
-
Aug 6, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
Just as Joe Biden made history on September 26, 2023, by the first President of the United States to join the picket line of a striking union, Kamala Harris also made history on March 14, 2024, as the first Vice President of the United States to visit an abortion clinic.
-
Jul 22, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
The founder of this magazine, Robert M. La Follette, referred to his 1924 campaign for the presidency as a moral crusade to save a young United States from the ravages of monopoly and the threats by authoritarians to the future of American democracy. “That tyrannical power which the American people denied to a king, they will no longer endure from the monopoly system,” argued La Follette’s Progressive Party platform.
-
Jun 6, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
The 2024 presidential election in November will be the first in U.S. history to be conducted without a functional media system.
In the past two decades, 43,000 journalists have lost their jobs, and close to one-third of print publications have been shuttered. The consolidation of broadcast media ownership has led to the elimination of newsrooms across the country, and the digital platforms that were supposed to be the future of communications have been collapsing at an alarming rate.
-
Apr 17, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
Bernie Sanders has made plenty of history as a democratic socialist mayor of Burlington, Vermont, an independent U.S. Representative, and then a U.S. Senator. He was a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and again in 2020, inspiring a new generation of progressive activists and candidates.
But Sanders also has a keen sense of history. He spoke recently with John Nichols, his co-author of the best-selling book It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, about Eugene V.
-
Feb 21, 2024 | 
progressive.org | John Nichols
Lucas Kunce could well determine the fate and the future of American democracy. A Marine Corps veteran who served a tour of duty in Iraq and two in Afghanistan before a stint as an arms control negotiator, Kunce in recent years has emerged as one of the country’s most passionate and effective critics of corporate monopolies and economic inequality.
As a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, he’s mounting a populist challenge to Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
