progressivism
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John Fetterman’s blue-collar wardrobe and plain-spoken progressivism once made him a star.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Parton preferred to let her closet make the statements, while quietly building a kind of everybody-love-everybody progressivism that promoted equality and kindness while remaining mostly off-the-record.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
The proponents of this new set of first principles, most prominently among them the 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, called it progressivism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Platner’s tattoo, then, is a particularly charged showdown between vectors of progressivism headed in opposite directions—the old world and the new.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2026
What follows upon these reflections is a rather ingenious form of historical progressivism in which the civilizing powers of the poet provide the principal justification for lyric poetry.
From An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by Wallace Jackson
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U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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