The Progressive

1 week ago | progressive.org | Norman Stockwell

Dhoruba Bin Wahad, then a leading member of the New York Black Panther Party, was arrested in June 1971 and charged with the attempted murders of two New York City police officers. He served nineteen years in prison before being released in 1990 when it came to light that his arrest was part of the FBI’s illegal counter-intelligence program known as COINTELPRO, which particularly targeted Black leaders. Since his release, he has traveled and written extensively.

2 weeks ago | progressive.org | Dave Zirin

In line with the theme of this issue of The Progressive, I’d like to dedicate the following to every transgender and nonbinary child who feels isolated, attacked, and erased from the country they call home. We are failing them, and it’s not only coming from the far right. These ideas have been trumpeted to the heavens—in terms that are getting uglier by the day—by a liberal hero and one of the all-time athletic trailblazers: Martina Navratilova.

2 weeks ago | progressive.org | Melissa Coulter Ryan |Melissa Ryan

“i used to be mutuals with someone who is now a real school shooter ;-).” —post on an X (formerly Twitter) account believed to belong to Solomon Henderson Natalie Rupnow, the fifteen-year-old who opened fire in December on her fellow students and teachers at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, killing two people before taking her own life, didn’t fit the loner white male school shooter stereotype.

3 weeks ago | progressive.org | John McAulay

As a mid-January morning unfolds in Madinat al-Salam, the provincial capital of the Quneitra Governorate in Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region, the streets come alive. A group of men gather outside a shop, sipping sweet tea from plastic cups and chatting eagerly, while women weave through the bustling local market. But there is also evidence here of the political upheaval that has swept Syria since its longtime authoritarian leader, Bashar al-Assad, was ousted from power in December.

3 weeks ago | progressive.org | Bill Lueders

In the end, after all the spending and contention and noise, the April 1 election for Wisconsin Supreme Court was something of a blowout: Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford trounced Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel. Crawford, backed by Democrats in the wink-wink nonpartisan race, snared 55 percent of the vote against Schimel, who was backed by Republicans including President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk.