progressive

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Cheyenne Hunt, the executive director of progressive nonprofit Gen Z for Change and one of those involved in the Swalwell allegations becoming public, has offered to help former Swalwell staffers find new jobs.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

“Alzheimer’s is the progressive failure and loss of synapses and nerve cells, which patients experience as failing memory, failing thinking and lost independence,” Vissel tells MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

Mark Joseph Stern: The speech is ostensibly bemoaning the progressive movement of the early 20th century, but the New Republic’s Matt Ford has a fantastic piece about how his history is completely wrong.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Pope Francis was often seen as a spontaneous progressive, who sometimes alienated Catholic traditionalists - for example in his restrictions on Latin Mass, which Pope Leo has eased.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

Hull House had become a bastion of progressive thought inhabited by strong-willed young women, “interspersed,” as one visitor put it, “with earnest-faced, self-subordinating and mild-mannered men who slide from room to room apologetically.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson