Recently I ran across a piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer that lays out four racist words and phrases that should be banished from the English language. It begins like this: "Editor's note: Please be ...

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 ...

As the word has gained popularity in the party, its meaning has become ever more opaque. Time to retire it. Defining the word “progressive” is a lot like defining pornography—you just know it when you ...

The Oxford English Dictionary's definition of "progressive" is, as you might expect, relatively pithy. As an adjective it describes the proportion of tax paid increasing relative to the sum earned, ...

This article originally appeared in In These Times. This article originally appeared in In These Times. What’s a progressive, anyway? The term has a long and unruly history, which I’ll be getting to.

The new, often progressive, words added come after the loss of 238 words scrubbed last year for being seen as too problematic. North American Scrabble Players Association CEO John Chew undertook the ...

IT’S no surprise that in recent years some on the left have embraced the term “progressive” as a substitute for “liberal.” The right has so demonized “the L-word” that during a Democratic debate in ...

The idea actually started a decade ago when he went to a Philadelphia Phillies game with his girlfriend-now wife, Jess. "To impress her I was going to write out every game (date, opponent, win or loss ...

If you still associate the word "progressive" with "prog rock" - all 20 minute keyboard solos and long-haired men in capes - then you probably haven't been paying attention to the news much lately.

What’s a progressive, anyway? Why are so many liberal writers so anxious to persuade us that, deep in his heart of hearts, Tim Kaine is, too, a progressive? The term has a long and unruly history, ...