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.
What a delightful irony it would be if, in the end, this most determinedly divisive of Presidents ended up bringing the people of this country together.Read more
One of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, belted out with characteristic conviction by Bob Weir, is “I Need a Miracle.” I think of it often when I go to work.Read more
Most Americans are well aware of the Underground Railroad that helped escaped Southern slaves find freedom in the North, but few have heard of the Reverse Underground Railroad that delivered free Northern black Americans into slavery.Read more
The state legislature and University of Wisconsin Board of Regents are seeking to punish campus free speech disruptions that are not occurring.Read more
Centrist Democrats like Joe Biden still aim to gin up mass fear over the prospect of leaving behind predatory insurers and the dizzying array of deductibles, co-pays, exclusions, humiliations, and rationing of care that characterizes our current systRead more
Honestly, it’s hard to see how any of the current contenders would not come across looking better in a debate against the Prevaricator-In-Chief. The question will be whether it matters.Read more
“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
