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Federal lawsuit against Trump's business operations allowed to proceed

Average monthly rents in cities around the world

Word:Journalism

Don't drop that Air Force coffee mug. It cost $1200

Russian connected people have paid $109 million in cash for Trump properties

Youth vote registration increasing in some states

Chicago may experiment with basic income program

Trash talk

How Russian "kompromat" could be weighing hard on Trump

States purged 16 million from their voter rolls

NFL and players suspend national anthem rules

Israel apartheid update

Young lag way behind seniors is planning to go to the polls

The cashless society is a con being pushed by big finance

70 infants under one year old summoned to immigration courrts

A brief guide to avoiding socialism

Jobless claims at 48 year low

Before meeting, Trump was informed that Putin was directly involved in cyberattacks

What you're paying for the Trump boys' business travels

Republicans happy with Trump being manipulated by Putin

Accused Russian Spy’s Boy Toy

Voting machine maker admits installing hackable software

What Kavanaugh's appointment could mean to health

Government paid $65K to Trump company for Scotland stay

Kavenaugh claims warrantless telecommunications spying is not banned by 4th Amendment

Trump supporters greatly over estimate role of MS-13

Latest indictment involves direct Russian collusion

Activists seek congressional support against airlines' seat legroom abuse

A new reason for unveiling Trump's tax returns

Putin pet Trump more critical of FBI than of Russia

Definition of treason

U.S. judge suspends deportations of reunited immigrant families

Tax cuts of $111 billion went to top one percent

Word: Putin & Trump

Best and worst big cities in which to buy your first house

Trump calls European Union a foe of US

Ben Carson's cruelty to old and disabled

Most Democrats want candidates to be nore like Bernie Sanders

Milwaukee agrees to major police stop and frisk reforms

Republicans like sexual collusion too

New analysis says 84% of people live in cities

Word: A new danger for Mueller

A 2017 story that tells part of the Russian election corruption tale

Court authorized wiretaps soar

Maryland election system tied to Russian oligarch

Live TV watchers drop

Trump wants to end war on poverty

Wages drop in wake of Trump tax cut

The new confederacy

Episcopal Church joins Israeli disinvestment movement

Justice Department indicts 12 Russians for hacking Democratic files

Six Democratic senatorial seats in danger, only two Republican ones

Trump double talks about British prime minister

The new toll of student debt

Word: Scottish newspaper summarizes Trump

Wife of Trump's new communications head thinks women soldiers should expect to be sexually harassed

Global poll: World more dangerous thanks to Trump

Kavanaugh supports corporate takeover of elections

Bangor Maine police report

More bad Kavanaugh moments

Word; Trump's latest DOJ appointment

Court strips fliers' legal protections against TSA abuse

Trump regime cuts $26 million in funds for organizations that help people sign up for Obamacare

Trump child abuse update

A few good reasons not to have Hilllary Clinton run for president again

NATO gets hit with Trump lies

Tina Desiree Berg interviews your editor

No signs Dems will win Senate

Trump's ex-wife said he had a book of Hitler speeches near his bed

Brett Kavanaugh favors presidential dictatorial powers

Problems with Kavanaugh

Contraception also at risk in new Supreme Court

Federal judge dismisses Trump regime lawsuite against sanctuary cities

The state of American farmlands

ACLU: Less than half of child reunions will meet deadline

Best anti-Trump protest of the week

Deutsche Bank reported ready to give Kushner info to Mueller

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No retirement age for rebellion
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On rebellion
 
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The New Confederacy
What we can learn from dysfunctional families
Finding new homes for the moral and the decent
Brain drain: the hazards of grad school politics
Normalizing failure
The war that never ended
When wrong becomes the norm
The collapse of the First American Republic
The end of treason
Top Rot
Love of trains
Elite emmigration
American beconing a corporate colony
How to get along with other Americans
What's new with me
Backing off of hate
Coming of age with "On the Road"
Eternal fundamentals of leadership (Rev. 8/14/11)
Football and American empire
Why hip is no longer hip
In technocracy we trust
Freedom as a local option
What's a humanities?
Global dumbing: the politics of entropy
Practicing anthropology without a license
The war of the terrified
Factories of fame
Notes on the end of the First American Republic
Notes from a lousy time
Why everything's so hard today
Quiet storm: blowin' in the wind of cultural decay
On the care and feeding of theories
Learning from Orwell & Mussolini
How minorities change America

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Mississippi Summer 1964
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Integration of Glen Echo amusement park
How affirmative action debate could have gone better
Marion Barry, Ronald Reagan and the rise and fall of black power
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The road to fascism gets shorter
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Memoirs of a parents' association president
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Obama and Dr. George
War on education moves to the college campus
PLC? WDYMBT?
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Small schools: Why they matter
 
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Of superheroes and super media
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How the media could rediscover journalism
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Journalism: What good old days
USA Tomorrow
Flogging the blogs won't clear the fog
Filler items for young journalists
Why journalism isn't a profession
The loneliest mile in town
Smackdown with Bill O'Reilly
Canaries in Studio A: 1950s radio
Words of cruelty
Confessions of a former British journalist
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When journalism went bad
The media's anti-left bias
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The Progressive Review (formerly the Idler and later the DC Gazette) was first published in 1964 and is one of the oldest alternative journals in America. Regularly ahead of the curve, the Review has opposed federal drug policy for over 40 years, was a lonely media voice against the massive freeways planned for Washington, was an early advocate of bikeways and light rail, supported neighborhood commissions later adopted in DC, and helped spur the creation of the DC Statehood Party and the national Green Party,

In November 1990 it devoted an entire issue to the ecologically-sound city and how to develop it. The article was republished widely.

In 1992, the Review's editor hosted a meeting at his home that led to the formation of what is now known as Fair Vote, the leading advocate for instant runoff voting.

Even before Clinton's nomination we exposed Arkansas political scandals that would later become major issues. Although our thorough coverage of the story would get us into a lot of trrouble it remains one of the most thorough and accurate accounts of the Clinton story.

We reported on NSA monitoring of U.S. phone calls in the 1990s, years before it became a major media story.

In 2003 editor Sam Smith wrote an article for Harper's comprised entirely of falsehoods about Iraq by Bush administration officials.

The Review started a web edition in 1995 when there were only 27,000 web sites worldwide. Today there are over 170 million active sites.

Our 1990 article on the savings & loan bailout scandal was selected by Utne Reader as one of the ten most under-covered stories of the past decade.

In the 1990s, we began reporting on the dangers of electronic voting.

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In the 1980s, we reported on the dangers of computerized voting and suggested possible solutions including an independent review of software and an adequate audit trail.

In the 1970s we published a first person account of a then illegal abortion.

In 1971 we published our first article in support of single payer universal health care

In 1970, we ran a two part series on gay liberation.

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In 1966 we published two articles on auto safety by Ralph Nader

In 1965 we called for the end of the draft.

In the 1960s we proposed community policing

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The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review for 49 years, has written four books (two at the request of editors), been published in five anthologies, helped to start six organizations (including the DC Humanities Council, the national Green Party and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three sucessful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

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Why you don't have to like Michael Jackson
 
Recording industry
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The difference between a progressive & a liberal

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    TUNES FROM A DC MUSICAL: Sam & Kathy Smith, along with Becky Brown, wrote a musical revue of DC history that was performed by the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop in 1978. The Washington Times listed the show as one of the "Sure Things" for the week. Mayor Marion Barry attended one performance Unfortunately, no recording was made, but years later Sam made a rough recording of some of the tunes for a curiuous reporter.
  • THE ATTICA THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN One year after Attica, there was a prisoner revolt at the Washington, DC Jail during which the director of DC Corrections and a number of guards were taken hostage. But, unlike Attica, no one was killed. Perhaps this is why so few remember what happened on a night when judges, politicians, U.S. Marshals, prisoners, and hostages all gathered in Courtroom 16 to see what could be done - brought together by a single judge who wasn't afraid o talk when others wanted to shoot.
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 SAM SMITH'S BOOKS
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Why Bother, in a wonderfully engaging and erudite manner, addresses the great question confronting democracy, community and justice -- and that is civic motivation. Prepare to be motivated. Sam Smith is an antidote to mindless speed reading. He makes you pause between paragraphs in order to mull over the captivating morsels he is placing in your imagination. - RALPH NADER

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"Lucid . . . Keep going, Sam" -- Mario Cuomo

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"Must read. . . combines laughter and trenchant critique to a degree seldom seen" -- John Rensenbrink, Green Horizons

"The Tom Paine of the Nineties" -- Chuck Stone

"Truly independent journalist" -- Patrick Mazza, Cascadia Times

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"You'll be enlightened, challenged, even entertained" -- Chuck Harder on the Talk America Network.

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