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The Progressive is a reader-supported, nonprofit, independent news organization that has been speaking truth to power since 1909. Our mission is to be a voice for peace, social justice, and the common good. Our commitment is to quality writing and accurate, fact-based reporting. All editorial decisions are made to advance these goals. The Progressive is a nonprofit supported by our readers. We are beholden to no group, party, or ideology. Our acceptance of donations from readers, fees from advertisers, and grants from foundations does not drive our editorial judgment. We subscribe fully to the standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News, meaning that we retain full control over editorial content, consistent with our journalistic and organizational goals.  While the Progressive may accept donations to support the coverage of particular subject areas, we maintain full editorial control of the coverage. No one outside the organization is allowed to assign, review, or determine editorial content. The Progressive is organized as a 501(c)(3) and thus does not endorse any political parties, candidates, or ballot measures.



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The Progressive publishes investigative reporting, pieces on current events from a progressive perspective, and reports on activism and social movements. We also publish pieces on foreign policy as long as there is a strong U.S. angle. We are particularly interested in reported pieces on topics or issues in the United States that have either been ignored or underreported by mainstream media. 

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Progressive Perspectives, formerly the Progressive Media Project, was launched in 1993 to help diversify and democratize our nation’s op-ed pages. We publish op-eds on our website and they are distributed nationally by the Tribune News Service and are regularly picked up by news outlets ranging from small local newspapers to internationally read websites. Our goal is to support voices that are underrepresented in the mainstream media. We provide writers with statistics about the news outlets that have published their op-ed.

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Public Schools Advocate is a project of The Progressive magazine that delivers timely and authoritative news and commentary on the state of the nation’s K-12 public education system that is critical to our economic future and the health of our democracy. PSA writers are teachers, advocates, activists, thinkers, and others in the progressive education movement.<div><br></div><div>Our goal is not only to inform the public about the threats to public education, but also to spotlight the work of leading education thinkers, the teacher- and citizen-led grassroots movement to defend public schools, and the education practices, such as community schools, that are fulfilling the promise of public education.</div>

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The Progressive publishes a bimonthly print magazine to a readership of thousands of subscribers. The magazine features a number of recurring columns, but we search for reported features, investigative pieces, book reviews, one interview, one personal essay, and one photo essay for each issue. <div><br></div><div>Print articles are generally one page (about 650 words), two pages (around 1,500), three pages (1,900, to make room for art), or four pages (2,400), depending on the topic. </div>

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