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About
the Review
The Progressive
Review (formerly the Idler and the DC Gazette) was first published
in 1964 and is one of the oldest alternative journals in America.
Regularly ahead of the curve, the Review has opposed federal
drug policy for 40 years, fought against the massive feeways
planned for Washington, was an early advocate of bikeways and
light rail, supported neighborhood commissions later adopted
in DC, 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. Although our thorough coverage
of the story would get us into a lot of trrouble it remains one
of the most thorough and accurate accounts of the Clinton story.
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.
Our 1990
article on the savings & loan bailout scandal was selected
by Utne Reader as one of the ten most under-covered stories of
the past decade.
In 1987 we ran an article
on AIDS. It is 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
1980s, we reported on the dangers of computerized voting and
suggested possible solutions including an independent review
of software and an adequate audit trail.
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 1966
we published two articles on auto safety by Ralph Nader
In 1965
we called for the end of the draft.
In the
1960s weproposed community policing
About
the editor
The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered
Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive
Review for 49 years, has written four books, been published in
five anthologies, helped to start six organizations (including
the DC Humanities Councilo, the national Green Party and the
DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three sucessful class
action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in
jazz bands for four decades.
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