These are tough days for those of us who call ourselves progressives and identify with the Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez branch of the Democratic Party. It is hard not to feel depressed ...

Ed Koch was angry—and perhaps a bit embarrassed. It was the spring of 1986, and his Parks Department had wasted millions of taxpayer dollars trying to rehabilitate Central Park’s Wollman Rink. At the ...

Teddy Roosevelt’s busting of monopolistic trusts and his Square Deal for average citizens were examples of progressivism. When the stock market crashed in 1929 and the Depression followed, it was ...