Bill Lueders is editor of The Progressive. He is author of AnEnemy of the State, the biography of the late editor of The Progressive, Erwin Knoll. Lueders was news editor at Isthmus, Madison’s alternative weekly, for twenty-five years, and won dozens of state and national awards. In 2011 he moved to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, where he became one of Wisconsin’s leading investigative reporters. He joined the staff of the The Progressive in 2015 and was named editor in September 2018.
“Although the President is free to criticize the press, he cannot use the power and authority of the United States government to punish and stifle it.”Read more
Trump’s presidency is no laughing matter. It is a national embarrassment, and his continued tenure in office represents an actual national emergency.Read more
More than 1,000 people come to The Progressive’s website every week to look at a single story: James Baldwin’s 1962 masterpiece, “A Letter to My Nephew.”Read more
Just before sunrise on Wednesday, a Republican-controlled senate approved bills to restrict early voting and curb the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general.Read more
There’s absolutely no reason the network can’t both report on Trump’s daily blunders and also vigorously defend itself when he seeks to punish one of its reporters for doing his job.Read more
Undoing the harm that Donald Trump has done will require continual struggle, involving much more profound commitments than just making it to the polls.Read more
One of the few guardrails keeping Donald Trump and crew from careening into pure chaos has been that often-overlooked third branch of government: the courts.Read more
My father worked for more than thirty years, half his life, for a laundry and dry cleaning company in Milwaukee, picking up and dropping off clothes at the homes of people who, unlike us, could afford such things.Read more
