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Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.

Civil liberties

2022
Major moves towards dictatorship and democracy

2021

Poll: 66% of southern Republicans, 39% of northeastern Democrats willing to secede
Cops quitting in record numbers
How US police training compares with the rest of the world
A quarter of Americans oppose a free press
Young losing interest in freedom
The civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protests might be illegal today

 ESSAYS
Clues your country may be becoming a fascist state
The militarization of civilian America
The true power of juries
Letter to a spook
How to stay free
Of pink suits, golf balls & civil liberties
Letter to Thomas Jefferson
Mississippi summer 1964
Backing off of hate
 
 
WAR ON TERROR
The biggest threat to America: ourselves
Final thoughts
September 12, 2001
Follow the limousines
 
GROUPS
CYBER
ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER


CIVIL LIBERTIES
American Civil Liberties Union
Constitutional Accountability Center

National Lawyers Guild
COPYRIGHT
Re-Create
 
GUNS
Gun talk
Gun owners are not the NRA
Firearm insurance
 
JUSTICE
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
CENTER FOR COURT INNOVATION
FULLY INFORMED JURY ASSOCIATION
INNOCENCE PROJECT

NAT ASSN OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS
SPYING
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Privacy Information Center
Project on Government Oversight

Stand Against Spying

PRISONS
SENTENCING PROJECT
SOLITARY WATCH
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ABOUT THE REVIEW

SAM SMITH ESSAYS
OUR ARCHIVES
SAM SMITH'S BIO

READER FAVORITES

  • Translation problem
  • Cities with fast population decline
  • Southern Baptist leaders covered up sex abuse, lied about secret database, report says
  • Word: Music
  • Seventh Day Agnostics arise: you have nothing to lose but your stereotype
  • A stark warning about threats to truth, science, and democracy
  • The death of 'mandatory fun' in the office
  • Why you don't have to care about Michael Jackson
  • New York's Highest Court Weighs Question Of Whether Elephant Is A Person
  • Valedictorian with nonspeaking autism delivers inspiring speech using text to speech computer

MULTITUDES: The unauthorized memoirs of Sam Smith

  • Introduction
  • Georgetown
  • Becoming
  • Friends: A Quaker education
  • Summer
  • Harvard: Magna cum probation
  • The canaries in Studio A
  • Suspect
  • Hooligan Navy days
  • Seeds
  • How the trouble began
  • Fire
  • Place
  • DC Diary: 1970s
  • DC Diary: 1980s
  • DC Diary: 1990s
  • DC Diary: The new century
  • Going Green
  • The loneliest mile in town
  • Rebel

SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES OF OUR PRINT EDITIONS

THE IDLER 1964-1967

DC GAZETTE & PROGRESSIVE REVIEW 1966-1985

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW 1985-2003

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 -- 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


ABOUT THE REVIEW

Regularly ahead of the curve, the Review has opposed federal drug policy for nearly 50 years, was a lonely media voice against the massive freeways planned for Washington, was an early advocate of bikeways and light rail, 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.

Even before Clinton's nomination we exposed Arkansas political scandals that would later become major issues. .

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.

In 1987 we ran an article on AIDS. It was the first year that more than 1,000 men died of the disease.

In the 1980s, Thomas S Martin predicted in the Review that "Yugoslavia will eventually break up" and that "a challenge to the centralized soviet state" would occur as a result of devolutionary trends. Both happened.

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.

in 1965 we called for the end of the draft.

In the 1960s we proposed community policing

KEY LINKS

  • Real America
  • Ukraine
  • Best & Worst States
  • Things that have gotten better or worse
  • An American Agenda
  • Better ways of doing things
  • Sam's bands

LINKS BY TOPIC

  • Activism
  • Alternative media
  • Alternative journalists
  • Alternative sex & gender
  • Asian Americans
  • Blacks
  • Civil liberties & rights
  • Crime & justice
  • Culture
  • Drugs
  • Ecology
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Guns
  • Health
  • Housing
  • Immigration
  • Labor
  • Latino
  • Media
  • Political
  • Population
  • Religion
  • Seniors
  • Urban
  • The Real Trump
  • War Department
  • Women
  • Young America

SAM SMITH ESSAYS

  • Some real corporate history
  • How corpocrats are killing our culture
  • Bringing joy to change
  • The stress of activism
  • The fading of community
  • Being an activist
  • The diversity of diversity
  • Getting the counterculture out of the closet
  • The dysfunctional family known as America
  • Being a rebel
  • Some tips for progressives
  • The myth even academic, the media and liberals accept
  • Practicing anthropology without a license
  • America's real divide
  • Love of trains
  • Filler items for young journalists
  • Another problem with white supremacists
  • Two subcultures that could save us
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