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American political magazine and website

The Progressive is a left leaning American magazine and website covering politics and culture. Founded in 1909 by U. S. senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. and co edited with his wife Belle Case La Follette, it was originally called La Follette's Weekly and then La Follette's. In 1929, it was recapitalized and had its name changed to The Progressive. For a period, The Progressive was co owned by the La Follette family and William Evjue's newspaper, The Capital Times. The publication covers civil rights and civil liberties related topics, immigrant issues, environmentalism, criminal justice reform, and democratic reform. Its current acting and managing editor is David Boddiger. Previous editors included La Follette Sr., Belle Case La Follette, their son Robert Jr., William Evjue, Morris Rubin, Erwin Knoll, Matthew Rothschild, Bill Lueders and Ruth Conniff.

During the 1940s, The Progressive adopted an anti Stalinist view of the Soviet Union. During the early 1940s, the magazine argued that the United States should stay out of World War II. The Progressive also criticized U. S. nuclear policy and clandestine CIA activity in this period. The magazine also opposed the second Iraq War.

In 1979, The Progressive gained national attention for its article by Howard Morland, "The H bomb Secret: How we got it and why we're telling it", which the U. S. government suppressed for six months because it contained classified information. The magazine prevailed in a landmark First Amendment case of prior restraint, United States v. Progressive, Inc

For its 100th year in print, the magazine published a book featuring "some of the best writing in The Progressive from 1909 to 2009" titled Democracy in Print, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

With a fall to 27,000 subscribers in 1999, in April 2004, following the Iraq War, The Progressive's circulation reached a record 65,000. The Progressive solicits gifts, grants, and sponsorships, publicizing donors who give a total of $5,000 or more per calendar year, according to its website.

Throughout the years, The Progressive has published articles by Jane Addams, James Baldwin, Louis Brandeis, Noam Chomsky, Clarence Darrow, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charles V. Hamilton, Nat Hentoff, Seymour Hersh, Jack London, Milton Mayer, A. J. Muste, George Orwell, Marcus Raskin, Edward Said, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, I. F. Stone, Norman Thomas, George Wald,