On January 9, 1909, Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. of Wisconsin founded La Follette’s Weekly to be “a magazine of progress, social, intellectual, institutional.”
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One of the first voices to speak out against McCarthyism in the 1950s, The Progressive continues to be among the staunchest defenders of the First Amendment, publishing regular McCarthyism Watch updates by Progressive editor, Matthew Rothschild. Now it is one of the few independent voices in the media reporting on Bush’s imperial designs, environmental degradation, and the resurgence in racism, particularly against Muslims and Arab-Americans.
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March 2001 Progressive columnist June Jordan writes “The Invisible People: Black Rage and the Stolen Election.”
Editor Matthew Rothschild writes on “The New McCarthyism.”
The Progressive opposes George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
Thomas J. Nagy publishes “The Secret Behind the Sanctions,” which reveals that the Pentagon knew in advance that sanctions on Iraq would cause epidemics.
Ruth Conniff becomes Washington Editor and appears regularly on CNN’s Sunday Capital Gang.
The Progressive wins the George Polk Award for “Stunning Technology,” a report on the electronic stun belt, by Anne-Marie Cusac.
Editor Erwin Knoll begins stint on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour roundtable and speaks out against the first Gulf War.
The Progressive publishes “Behind the Death Squads,” an exposé of U.S. support for killers in El Salvador, by Allan Nairn.
The U.S. government sues The Progressive in an attempt to prevent publication of the article “The H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It—Why We’re Telling It.” A Milwaukee federal court issues a prior restraint order against The Progressive for seven months.
Progressive contributor and subsequent editor Erwin Knoll is named to President Richard Nixon’s “Enemies List.”
The Progressive publishes a special Earth Day issue: “The Crisis of Survival.”
The Progressive expresses early opposition to the Vietnam War and suggests that the war will turn out to be a catastrophe.
James Baldwin publishes “A Letter to My Nephew” in The Progressive.
Morris Rubin, editor of The Progressive, wins the George Polk Award for his coverage of Latin America.
Martin Luther King Jr. writes for The Progressive on the student lunchcounter protests in the South.
The Progressive publishes an exposé of Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism. The issue is read aloud in the U.S. Senate and helps prompt a reappraisal of McCarthy’s tactics. It becomes the best-selling issue of The Progressive.
The Progressive, revived by contributions from subscribers, endorses Norman Thomas for President.
The Progressive suspends publication for three months because of economic difficulties.
The Progressive, after advocating neutrality, supports U.S. entry into World War II once Pearl Harbor is attacked.
Belle Case La Follette renames La Follette’s Weekly as The Progressive.
Robert M. La Follette Sr. dies.
Representative George Huddleston editorializes on the plight of U.S. political prisoners being held under “war laws.”
Helen Keller describes her life philosophy in La Follette’s Weekly Magazine.
Robert La Follette opposes U.S. entry into World War I.
Belle Case La Follette editorializes on the suffrage movement.
Jane Addams publishes “The Reaction of Moral Instruction Upon Social Reform” in La Follette’s Weekly Magazine.
Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. founds La Follette’s Weekly Magazine, “a magazine of progress, social, intellectual, institutional.”
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