Prof. Jackson Lears has an excellent review of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s new book in The New Republic. The book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of ...

The January 1903 issue of McClure’s Magazine was the high-water mark of the Progressive Era investigative journalism known as muckraking. Muckrakers took on the corruption of turn-of-the-century ...

President Trump refers to the constant attacks by the liberal press as fake news. The press is supposed to be objective and report the facts not a spin that supports their personal view. During the ...

This is the second part of an ongoing series chronicling oligarchy and its effects on North American society. There were a number of famous muckrakers. One of the most famous was Ida Tarbell, a ...

It's hardly surprising that an era marked by huge advances in communication technology would also be one in which independent muckrakers would enjoy a surge of influence for the first time in a ...