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His focus on welfare measures as the ultimate standard of progressivism left the city ill-equipped to propose alternative economic strategies needed for addressing its fiscal crisis.
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Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
Newland toldshe believes the trend reflects a broader retreat from the progressivism that once defined her generation.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
For all his progressivism, Mamdani is a relentlessly boosterish NYC insider with a uniform — black suit, white shirt — familiar to New York’s financiers.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Reform—Within Reason Malthus aimed to puncture Godwin’s grandiloquent progressivism.
—Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
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Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
Newland toldshe believes the trend reflects a broader retreat from the progressivism that once defined her generation.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
For all his progressivism, Mamdani is a relentlessly boosterish NYC insider with a uniform — black suit, white shirt — familiar to New York’s financiers.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Reform—Within Reason Malthus aimed to puncture Godwin’s grandiloquent progressivism.
—Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for progressivism
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Unlike Chakrabarti, Wiener has also been a part of San Francisco’s insular community for decades, and has his own base of support — though he is considered a moderate to Chakrabarti’s progressiveness.—
Anita Chabria,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Its reputation is one of progressiveness and social awareness.—
Christian Orozco,
NBC news,
12 Sep. 2025
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Randall accused him of a feel-good liberalism that ignores deeper racial and class reckonings that South Bend (a city that is just barely half white) has coming.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026
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During Vargas Llosa’s lifetime, his political beliefs underwent extreme changes, from supporting Castro’s revolutionary Communism to championing traditional European liberalism, which included an adamantine belief in unregulated markets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Progressivism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/progressivism. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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