UNDERNEWS: An American Agenda

Democracy
Amend Congress
Elect the Attorney General
Instant runoff voting
Ballot initiatives
Public campaign financing
Urban statehood


Drugs
End the war on drugs

Elections Do away with the electoral college

Family
Daycare for all

Healthcare Single payer health plan

Housing
Dealing with foreclosures
Shared equity program

Justice
Improve jury rights
Restorative justice
Community courts

Local
Building little republics in a failing empire
Local currency
Localism
Participatory budgeting

Money Alternative currencies
Raise minimum wage
Credit unions
Credit unions in your state
Printing money
Restore Glass-Steigall
End credit card usury

War
War abolition

Youth Lower the drinking age

ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

A truly independent journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist

A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader

Inimitable -- Mother Jones Magazine

Sam's a cynical cat -- Marion Barry

Sam's one of the few independent voices left. The press today is either extreme or special interest or else just establishment, an extension of the corporate spirit -- Sen. Eugene McCarthy,

One of a small group of whites with whom many blacks would trust their political lives - Chuck Stone, Washingtonian.

A reputation for wit, intelligence and anger. -- Claude Lewis, Chicago Tribune

Smith is an island of reason and information in a sea of narcissistic blather. -- City Paper, Washington

Whatever the debate, the Review's sharp critiques encourage us to look out our window, notice and act upon what we see, and also to look further -- to the rest of the country and globe -- to see how the organized big world interacts with our more spontaneous small worlds. - Utne Reader

UNDERNEWS

January 10, 2021

An American Agenda

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