Keywords Progressive Era, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, trusts, muckrakers, reforms, economic inequality, social justice, Pure Food and Drug Act, labor rights More for You ...

The Progressive Party’s presidential candidate in 1924, Robert La Follette, once called the Supreme Court “the one formidable obstacle which must be overcome before anything can be accomplished.” ...

The Social Gospel is a Progressive Era Protestant reform movement centered on, in the first instance, a reform of Christianity’s self-understanding. On its traditional self-understanding ...

The Progressive Era, 1890-1920, was vibrant with reforms and programs designed to create a more equitable and healthier society. ... Improved public health was part of social reform.

For a truly progressive reform of Social Security, follow Alan Greenspan, not Bernie Sanders by Yeva Nersisyan, opinion contributor - 04/05/23 8:00 PM ET ...

To make either Medicaid or Social Security more progressive, Republicans would also have to overcome their instinctive belief that “redistribution” is the worst thing about the welfare state.