Centrists treat politics as fandom. Progressives treat politics as a goal. If the rest of my feature disappears from your phone, don’t fret. Those two sentences are the entire argument. Everything ...

The word “progressive” has a very specific meaning for historians, but in its contemporary use, it’s just a synonym for liberal, at least that’s how I use it. For a writer it’s just easier to cut out ...

This is always a fun conversation, and it’s one that’s worth revisiting every couple of years as the meaning continues to shift: how do we define “progressive” metal? What does it mean to be ...

Throwbacks from the 1990s seem to be everywhere these days: low unemployment, a Bush and a Clinton running for office, friends from “X-Files” entering our living rooms again. And now identity politics ...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is trying to redefine progressive politics in a way that would in effect create a new wing of the Democratic Party. And Hillary Clinton is fighting Sanders over what it ...