The Progressive

The Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics and culture with a pronounced left-of-center perspective. It is known for its pacifism; its strong opposition to military interventions, such as the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The magazine also devotes much coverage to civil rights, civil liberties, and environmentalism. It has opposed nuclear weapons from August 1945 to the present.

History

The Progressive was founded in January 9, 1909, by Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr.. It was first called La Follette's Weekly; in 1929, it name was changed to The Progressive.

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Wisconsin - Senator - Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

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Among the campaigns The Progressive has led was the fight to stay out of World War I, the Palmer Raids in the early 1920s, unemployment during the Depression, expose McCarthyism in the 50s, and US involvement in Indochina.

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World War I - Palmer Raids - Depression - McCarthyism - Indochina

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In the 1960s, it was a leading voice in civil rights movement, publishing the writing of Martin Luther King Jr. five times.

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In the 1970s, the magazine devoted attention to the emerging environmental movement, kicking it off with a special Earth Day issue in 1970 entitled The Crisis of Survival.

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In 1979, The Progressive won national attention for its article by Howard Morland, The H-Bomb Secret: How we got it and why we're telling it, which the US government suppressed for six months.

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But the magazine prevailed in a landmark First Amendment case, United States v. The Progressive, Inc.. This was a historic case overturning a prior restraint.

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First Amendment - United States v. The Progressive, Inc. - Prior restraint

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In the 1980s, it published groundbreaking stories about U.S. support for death squads in Central America.

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Death squad - Central America

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During the 1990s, The Progressive campaigned on behalf of immigrants, women on welfare, gays and lesbians, and prisoners. In recent years, it worked to end the economic sanctions on Iraq, to prevent US involvement in the Colombian civil war, to adopt a more liberal policy toward drugs, and to institute public funding of political campaigns.

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Immigrants - Welfare - Gays and lesbians - Colombian - Civil war - Drugs

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