Winds of change.

• Author: Conniff, Ruth
• Position: Editor's Note

It is great fun to bring you this month's cover story on Wendy Davis by reporter Mary Tuma of the San Antonio Current. Tuma comes to us by way of our new web editor, Stephen Webster, who moved to Madison, Wisconsin, from Austin, Texas, and is braving the freezing temperatures here in order to inject new energy into our website at progressive.org. Stephen is bringing on sparkling writers like Tuma, as well as a flesh lineup online.

If you've been reading the site, you've seen that we are regularly publishing Marcy Wheeler, Ian Murphy, Jim Hightower, and the radical ladies of Skepchick, along with a whole host of great progressive contributors.

And now I'm pleased to announce that the legendary investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna, Stephen's former colleague at The Raw Story, is joining our team.

Larisa is the reporter who first revealed the location of a CIA black site during the Bush Administration, uncovered the political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, and exposed the shady dealings of Karl Rove's electioneers.

Her new blog will be hosted exclusively on The Progressive website. We are sure you will find her insights on the news an important part of your daily read.

In this print edition of the magazine, I am particularly proud to bring you Rebecca Kemble's exclusive reporting on the clash of indigenous people and the owner of the G-Tac mine in northern Wisconsin, a story with global implications. And I know you will love Ian "David Koch" Murphy's hilarious book review of Scott Walker's memoir, as well as a terrific interview with Joyce Carol Oates.

We have big plans--and some big issues planned--for the rest of 2014. In this era of consolidation, monopoly, and technological change, here at 409 East Main Street we are grappling with what it means to be a 100-year-old print publication in the digital age.

It would be naive to say there is...