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Progressivism (United States politics)

Change in the Air

by Jeff Madrick,

When Bill de Blasio won the New York City mayoral election with 73 percent of the vote, I couldn’t help but wonder whether it was the start of something big. For more…

Donkey Business

by Thomas Frank,

That the Republican Party has worked its way to a lonely and unpopular place is not news. The G.O.P.’s congressional wing has been moving rightward since the 1980s, and in…

The Future Progressive

by Jeff Madrick,

In his classic book On Liberty, the nineteenth-century British philosopher John Stuart Mill urged that man strive to become “a progressive being.” Mill defined progressivism as the cultivation of individuality;…

The Maintenance Crew

by Thomas Frank,

Remember the moment when “the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”? It was late in the spring of 2008, and that was one…

The vanishing liberal

by Kevin Baker,

How the left learned to be helpless

Barack Hoover Obama

by Kevin Baker,

The best and the brightest blow it again

Liberalism Regained

Edited by Lewis H. Lapham,

Building the next progressive majority

Turn on, tune in

by Thomas De Zengotita,

Toward a progressive talk show

A new language for the left. Translating the conservative discourse

by Benjamin R. Barber,

The most difficult job

by Carlo, conte Sforza,

The lost liberals

by John Fischer,

Can they find a new road map?

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