Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A History of The Progressive Magazine -- Part 1 Championing Civil Liberties -- Free Speech and the Right of Congress to Declare the Objects of the War -- Theodore Dreiser Denounces Campaign Against Communists -- What Are We Afraid Of? -- Freedom's Most Effective Weapon -- The Manifest Destiny of America -- The Last Best Hope -- On Secrecy -- When Nice People Burn Books -- Lesbian Writer Fights Feminist Censors -- Your Urine, Please -- That Country Wouldn't Be America -- The New McCarthyism -- Treated Like a Criminal: How the INS Stole Three Days of My Life -- Our Job Is Not to Stand Up and Cheer When the President Breaks the Law -- Part 2 Combating Corporate Power -- Punish the Real Offenders -- Borah Tells How Our Wealth Is Divided -- The Progressive Platform -- Lawless Big Business Must Be Controlled to Save Democracy -- The Profit in Highway Slaughter -- Valley of the Shadow of Death -- Tobacco Roads: Delivering Death to the Third World -- They Killed My Son -- Free Market Fraud -- Wake Me When We're Equal -- Part 3 Renouncing Empire -- Why War? -- The Armed Ship Bill Meant War -- Defense or Imperialism? -- Armed Intervention in Nicaragua -- We Have Got to Lick Churchill Too -- Vietnam Whitewash: The Congressional Jury That Convicted Itself -- How It All Began -- Behind the Death Squads -- The Secret Behind the Sanctions -- The Algebra of Infinite Justice -- Heckled in Rockford -- The Scourge of Nationalism -- The Curse of Columbus -- Part 4 Campaigning for Women's Equality -- My Baby Girl -- If Things Were Reversed -- May the Women of the United States Vote in 1920? -- Women's Wages in Government -- Women and the Law: Unjust Discrimination -- The "Patriotic" Prostitute -- Memoirs of a Normal Childhood -- Awesome Women in Sports -- What Shall I Wear?.

An Interview with Katha Pollitt, Columnist for The Nation -- An Interview with Gloria Steinem -- Dulcet Tones -- An Interview with Ani DiFranco, Folksinger -- Part 5 Linking Arms with the Civil Rights Movement -- The Color Line -- Twin Evils of the Literacy Test: Privilege and Race Discrimination Threaten the High Standard of This Country -- Murdering Negroes -- Lynching Punishes the Community -- The Plunder Harvest in Indian Affairs -- Sato: A Letter to a Japanese American -- Revolt Against Jim Crow -- Intruder in the Dust -- The Burning Truth in the South -- "I Will Keep My Soul" -- A Letter to My Nephew -- "Arab": Did You Flinch? -- The New Bigotry -- The Underclass Myth -- My Father's Party -- Part 6 Joining the Cause of Gay Liberation -- I'm Proud to Be a Sissie -- An Interview with Randy Shilts, Author of And the Band Played On -- One Good Mother to Another -- An Interview with Larry Kramer, Playwright and Founder of ACT UP -- An Interview with Urvashi Vaid, Author, Executive Director, and Foundation Leader in the Lesbian and Gay Rights Movement -- An Interview with Harry Hay, Founder of the Mattachine Society, the First Modern Gay-Rights Group -- I Do Weddings -- Part 7 Defending the Environment -- Teddy Roosevelt's Greatest Work -- Have You Ever Seen This Bird? -- The National Pollution Scandal -- Earth Day: A Beginning -- Fake Food Is the Future -- The Clamshell Alliance: Getting It Together -- Earth First! -- An Interview with Wendell Berry, Writer, Farmer, Environmentalist -- An Interview with Winona LaDuke, Native American Environmentalist, Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate with Ralph Nader -- Arctic Heat Wave -- An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams, Writer, Environmentalist -- An Interview with Wangari Maathai, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize -- Part 8 Reforming Criminal Justice -- To the Hangmen's Managers and Sympathizers.

Capital Punishment -- Death Punishment Does Not Deter Crime -- Requiem for the Champ -- An Interview with Sister Helen Prejean, Criminal Justice Activist and Author of Dead Man Walking -- Abu Ghraib, USA -- Part 9 Freeing the Media -- People Demand a Free Press -- "Freedom of the Press" Bares Suppressed Facts Concerning Journalism -- The Media Monopolies -- The Bounds of Thinkable Thought -- Body-Bag Journalism -- Oligopoly: The Big Media Game Has Fewer and Fewer Players -- An Interview with Helen Thomas, White House Correspondent -- An Interview with Amy Goodman, Founder and Host of Democracy Now! -- Part 10 Standing Up for Labor -- The Strike of the Shirtwaist Girls -- Why Wisconsin Gave a Record-Breaking Vote to La Follette -- The Eight-Hour Day Will Come -- Anti-Trust Law and Labor: An Appeal to Congress and the Public -- The War of Organized Capital Against the People -- Human Wreckage: A Plea for Federal Relief -- A Letter to Henry Ford -- The Work Ethic: It Works Best for Those Who Work Least -- An Interview with Dolores Huerta, Cofounder, United Farm Workers -- Part 11 Parading Poetry -- Solidarity -- Sleeping on the Bus -- To the Poet Whose Lover Has Died of AIDS -- Sonnet on the Location of Hell -- Storm -- Poem for an Election Year: The Politics of Bindweed -- Black on a Saturday Night -- The Communist Party -- La Niña Obediente / The Obedient Girl -- Veterans Day -- The Avenue of the Americas -- Not Spoken -- Rue Beaurepaire, I and II -- My Name's Not Rodríguez -- Balance -- Book Burning -- Patriotic Poem -- Sizing Up the Cost of War -- On the Third Anniversary of the Ongoing War in Iraq -- The House Murdered -- No Moon -- Prayer for the New Millennium -- Part 12 Waging Peace -- Take the Profit Out of War -- The Right of the Citizen to Oppose War and the Right of Congress to Shape the War Policy -- Gandhi Opposes Bloodshed.

Who Is It That Wants War? -- We Can Have Peace, If We Want It -- Anniversary -- Not a Just War, Just a War -- Dying for the Government -- An Interview with Cindy Sheehan, "The Peace Mom" -- Part 13 Opposing Nuclear Weapons -- Plunderers in Paradise -- The Doomsday Strategy -- Radiation: Unsafe at Any Level -- Born Secret: The Story Behind the H-Bomb Article We're Not Allowed to Print -- The H-Bomb Secret: To Know How Is to Ask Why -- Why We Seized the Hammer -- An Interview with Sam Day, Peace Activist -- Part 14 Weaving a Safety Net -- The Reaction of Moral Instruction upon Social Reform -- How Shall We Pay for Industrial Accidents? -- Why We Need an Income Tax -- The Need for Health Insurance -- Wagner Urges Unemployment Relief Action -- The Long Plan for Recovery -- The Taxing Power Is Only E¤ective Way to Redistribute Wealth and Break Down Vast Fortunes -- Look at America -- A New Economic Bill of Rights -- Cutting the Lifeline: The Real Welfare Fraud -- To Your Health -- Another Country -- President Bush, Meet Lorraine -- Part 15 Upholding Human Rights -- Human Rights Higher Than Property Rights -- Still Those Who Prize Freedom -- Against Isolationism -- Let Me In on the Kill -- On Justice for the Palestinians -- A Palestinian Versailles -- An Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- An Interview with Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- Where We Went Wrong: A Palestinian's Soul Search -- An Interview with Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- An Interview with the Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize Winner -- Part 16 Democratizing Democracy -- Restrict Use of Money in Campaigns -- Initiative, Referendum, and Recall -- Election of National Delegates and the Nomination of President by Direct Vote -- The Great Issue -- Elect President by Direct Vote.

The Power and Duty of the Senate: Expenditure of Huge Sums for Seats in Congress Cannot Be Justified -- "Pay As You Enter" Policy Denounced -- What Democracy Means -- The Erosion of Liberty -- Wall Street's Mascots -- Part 17 Providing a Platform for Writers, Musicians, and Performers -- An Interview with Pete Seeger, Folksinger -- An Interview with Frank Zappa, Musician -- An Interview with Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet -- An Interview with Alice Walker, Novelist -- An Interview with Susan Sarandon, Actress -- An Interview with Allen Ginsberg, Poet -- An Interview with Patti Smith, Musician -- An Interview with Harold Pinter, Playwright -- An Interview with George Carlin, Comedian -- An Interview with Janeane Garofalo, Actress -- An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist -- Crack Kills, Pot Giggles -- An Interview with Tom Morello, Musician -- An Interview with Chuck D, Hip-Hop Artist -- Part 18 Envisioning a Better World -- The Basis of the Struggle -- Toward a Manifest New Destiny -- A Flash of the Possible -- History Is a Dance of Life -- Our Story.