The Progressive Populist is a magazine in tabloid newspaper format published twice monthly. Founded in 1995, the magazine is based in Storm Lake, Iowa with editorial offices in Manchaca, Texas. The editor is James M. Cullen, managing editor is Art Cullen and the publisher is John Cullen.
The magazine labels itself as "A Journal from America's Heartland." [1] It deals with political and economic topics of interest to "workers, small businesses, and family farmers and ranchers"; according to its about page, the journal "report[s] on issues of interest to the middle class of America." [1]
The magazine publishes original and syndicated columns of progressive journalists and pundits. Regular contributors include Jim Hightower, Amy Goodman, Dean Baker, John Buell, Margie Burns, Alexander Cockburn, Joe Conason, Froma Harrop, Arianna Huffington, Jesse Jackson, Hank Kalet, Donald Kaul, Gene Lyons, Margot Ford McMillen, Garrison Keillor, Ralph Nader, John Nichols, Vicki Nikolaidis, Wayne O'Leary, Greg Palast, Rob Patterson, Ted Rall, Joan Retsinas, Roberto Rodriguez, Connie Schultz, Michael Silverstein, David Sirota, Norman Solomon, Tom Tomorrow, Sam Uretsky, Mark Weisbrot, Robert Weissman, Dave Zirin and Dave Zweifel.
Since October 31, 2010, The Progressive Populist also has a partnership with Vicki Nikolaidis to produce an Internet radio show via Blogtalkradio. For the first two editions of the program, held on October 31 and November 11th, the show was called "The Progressive Politics Show" and was hosted on Asnycnow Radio One [2] The show was renamed Talking Progressive Politics and moved to the Populist's BTR service since November 17th, 2010. [3] [4]