Progressive Picks

At its height, the Pentagon controlled 13 percent of Puerto Rico's land and operated five atomic missile bases.

The book “War Against All Puerto Ricans” is a vivid, detailed account of the brutal treatment of a people “liberated” from Spain.

Women occupy jobs that are excluded from legal protections, making the workers very easy to exploit and underpay.

Author Caroline Fredrickson shares her findings on how female workers continue to be economically shortchanged in the United States.

In this interview with Brad Evans and Henry A. Giroux, the public intellectuals discuss their new book and what they mean by “disposable futures.”

Exposing violence is not the same as being exposed to it, though the former too often comes as a result of the latter.

Slavery's lasting ideology of white supremacy figures into the history of racial injustice in incarceration, says author Bryan Stevenson.

Bryan Stevenson makes a detailed, compelling and personal case that prisons in the United States are filled with victims of injustice.

Salvatore Babones discusses 16 ideas for furthering the progressive agenda in the US.

Mark Karlin interviews author Ian Millhiser on the devastating impact the Supreme Court has had on democracy in the US.