Who is a “progressive” these days? Over the last decade, the term “progressive” has come into vogue, superseding the traditional nomenclature of political identity like “liberal” and “moderate.” And ...

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Prof. Jackson Lears has an excellent review of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s new book in The New Republic. The book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of ...

Cigar smokers of the world unite. Actor and conservative advocate Jon Voight engaged in a wide-ranging interview for Cigar Afcionado in which he got into the smoke-filled rooms of politics. The ...

America is in the midst of a crisis that needs no introduction. Ideological warfare and policy paralysis in Washington. Declining economic well-being among the mass of Americans combined with ...

This story is adapted from the book AFRICATOWN, which was published this week by St. Martin’s Press. Four years ago, an announcement from the Alabama Gulf Coast shocked the world: The wreckage of the ...

John Halpin talks about the progressive movement in an interview with Progressive Way. The positions of American Progress, and our policy experts, are independent, and the findings and conclusions ...

The playbook for taming industrial capitalism already exists. It’s the essential starting point for reform today In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville offered a prescient warning for “the ...

Democrat Joe Biden appears to have ousted Donald Trump from the White House, yet for many Democrats and progressives the results of the election have produced mostly disillusionment, even despair. The ...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - When Leon Billings was first asked to join a Congressional subcommittee on pollution, he was not interested. “To me, I thought being polluted was having too much alcohol,” the ...