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''The Progressive'' is an American monthly magazine of politics, culture and progressivism with a pronounced liberal perspective. Founded in 1909 by Senator Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette, it was originally called ''La Follette's Weekly'' and then simply ''La Follette's''. In 1929, it was recapitalized and had its name changed to ''The Progressive'';〔〔"Timeline", ''The Progressive'' magazine May 1, 2004.〕〔Bernard A Weisberger, ''The La Follettes of Wisconsin : Love And Politics in Progressive America'' Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. ISBN 0299141306 (p. 282)〕 for a period ''The Progressive'' was co-owned by the La Follette family and William Evjue's newspaper ''The Capital Times''.〔 The magazine is known for its strong pacifism. It devotes much coverage to combating war, militarism, and corporate power. It supports civil rights and civil liberties, women's rights, LGBT rights, immigrant rights, labor rights, human rights, environmentalism, criminal justice reform, and democratic reform. Its current Editor-in-Chief is Ruth Conniff. Previous editors included Fighting Bob La Follette, his son Robert Jr., William Evjue, Morris Rubin, Erwin Knoll and Matthew Rothschild. Its editorial offices are in Madison, Wisconsin. == History == On the first page of its first issue, La Follette wrote this introduction to the magazine: In the course of every attempt to establish or develop free government, a struggle between Special Privilege and Equal Rights is inevitable. Our great industrial organizations () in control of politics, government, and natural resources. They manage conventions, make platforms, dictate legislation. They rule through the very men elected to represent them. The battle is just on. It is young yet. It will be the longest and hardest ever fought for Democracy. In other lands, the people have lost. Here we shall win. It is a glorious privilege to live in this time, and have a free hand in this fight for government by the people.〔 Some of the campaigns ''The Progressive'' has waged include the fight to stay out of World War I,〔 opposition to the Palmer Raids in the early 1920s and calling for action against unemployment during the Depression. La Follette's wife Belle edited the publication's women's section, and also wrote articles for the publication condemning racial segregation.〔 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 Two.〔 Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, ''The Progressive'' declared its support for the American war effort.〔 However, ''The Progressive'' also condemned the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima, in contrast to both ''The Nation'' and ''The New Republics support for the bombing.〔 ''The Progressive'' reprinted an essay from the ''The Christian Science Monitor'' by Richard Lee Strout arguing that by using the bombs, "The United States has incurred a terrible responsibility to history which now, unfortunately, can never be withdrawn".〔 In 1947, ''The Progressive's'' editors announced they were suspending publication. However, after readers raised $40,000 to save the magazine, ''The Progressive'' returned as a monthy magazine issued as a non-profit venture.〔〔 In the 1950s, ''The Progressive'' dedicated itself to combating McCarthyism, although the magazine agreed that the U.S. government had the right to blacklist members of the Communist Party.〔''The Progressive'' issued a special issue criticizing McCarthy, ''McCarthy: A Documented Record'' in 1954; sections from the issue were read aloud in the U.S. Senate, and it became the magazine's best-selling issue.〔〔Robert Griffin, ''The Politics Of Fear : Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate '' (Second Edition). Amherst, the University of Massachusetts press, 1987. ISBN 0870235540 (p. 187).〕 ''The Progressive'' also criticized U.S. nuclear policy and clandestine CIA activity in this period.〔 In the 1960s, it was a platform for the American Civil Rights Movement, publishing the writing of Martin Luther King, Jr. five times, and publishing James Baldwin's open letter "My Dungeon Shook - Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation", the first section of ''The Fire Next Time''. ''The Progressive'' also devoted much of its articles to denouncing U.S. involvement in Indochina.〔 1984 saw ''The Progressive'' publish "Behind the Death Squads" by Allan Nairn, a critique of U.S. policy in El Salvador.〔 ''The Progressive'' opposed the Persian Gulf War, accusing the George H. W. Bush Administration of rejecting any options for peaceful negotiation of the crisis. While condemning Saddam Hussein's government for its abuse of human rights, it accused the Bush administration of hypocrisy for not taking action against other governments which also abused human rights. The magazine also argued against the second Iraq War. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Progressive」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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