The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) transformed the U.S. with sweeping reforms targeting corruption, inequality, unsafe working conditions, and challenges from mass immigration. Reformers fought for ...

From the 1890s to the 1920s, the Progressive Era transformed America with sweeping reforms in labor rights, consumer protections, and democratic participation. Activists, journalists, and politicians ...

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the ...

A century after Bob La Follette's death, his ideas live on at The Progressive magazine and UW-Madison's growing School of ...

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory ...