Progressive Picks

“Smuggler Nation” takes on the notion that the United States has been strictly a law-abiding nation when it comes to imports.

You may have watched fireworks celebrating US independence from colonial rule. However, what if you were to learn that an important factor in the US Revolution was to ensure …

In this interview, author and activist Janet Mock discusses the complexities of disclosure as a trans person, the mythology of the gender binary and her memoir, “Redefining Realness.”

From our current depletable and polluting energy sources to the rare minerals that are vital to modern technology, the earth's nonrenewable resources are not far from disappearing, warns author …

As we exhaust the fossil fuels and minerals of the planet, we face the threat of exhausting the raw materials that built the modern world.

Angela P. Harris speaks with Truthout about the challenges facing nonwhite and nonheterosexual academics and the increasing impact of the corporatization of universities.

Academia allegedly encourages meritocracy and the creation of objective knowledge - values that should make race and gender identities irrelevant. But women of color too frequently find themselves "presumed …

A recent US Supreme Court ruling weakening the unions of state-funded workers limits the ability of many domestic workers who care for our most vulnerable to win higher pay, …

Mostly foreign-born women, domestic workers have been excluded from labor protections that workers in the rest of the economy take for granted. A growing movement calling for domestic workers …

An interview with political sports writer Dave Zirin, about his latest book, explores the unfolding of the World Cup and the Olympics in Brazil, and what we can expect …