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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Occupy Wall Street targeted rising inequality, as many did in the Progressive Era. Reuters A decade and a half into the 21st century, the American labor movement resembles a chronically ill patient ...

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 ...

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A new progressive era is dawning in America, and almost nothing Republicans can do will hold back the tide — unless Republicans destroy democracy altogether (more on this in a moment). Start with 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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. a conservative president who is deeply unpopular with Americans. A country facing ...