Jane Addams showed how the seeds of social change can be planted at the local level even as the wealthy gain power and ...

Democrats need a politician like Teddy Roosevelt, who fought corruption, was progressive, and used the bully pulpit to ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

If Johnson was born at the end of one major era of social reform—Reconstruction, he lived his years as a competitive boxer under the thrall of another—the Progressive Era. Between 1912 and ...

The Technocracy Movement was an offshoot of progressivism, and adherents believed that science and technology were the keys ...

He envisioned Judaism as a progressive religion that needed to be ... Walter Rauschenbusch came of age in the late 19th century, an era marked by boundless energy and optimism undercut by fear ...

Joe Manchin and London Breed have nothing in common. One is an old-school Democratic senator from West Virginia, surviving and thriving in an increasingly red state; the other is the progressive ...

I am a populist. I not only view the people as the source of all governmental power, but I believe in the right of citizens to act directly to amend the constitution and enact legislation without the ...