Progressive View
The Progressive View was formerly a column published regularly in the Rossmoor News. Similar articles are available here. Thanks to all our contributors.
The opinions expressed in the Progressive View articles are those of the writer and not the Democrats of Rossmoor.
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Don’t Know Much About History – Part 2
A few days ago, a friend complained that filling her Honda’s gas tank cost $80. As a retiree who doesn’t commute, she can probably absorb the rising costs. But think of the workers in those…
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Don’t Know Much About History – Part 1
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Winner Western news outlets treat the current Middle East conflagration as if it exists in a vacuum, disconnected from the compounding economic disasters…
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Ancient History
When I was 18 years old I picked up a train schedule near Constance, Germany, where I was a student at an immersive German language program, and made my way 113 miles northeast through the…
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Things Fall Apart
From the Observer, a Jamaican newspaper, January 8, 2026 Bruce Golding served as Jamaica’s eighth prime minister from September 2007 to October 2011. This article was sent to Katha Hartley from a friend in Grenada,…
Who Are You Reading on Substack?
Substack is a media app for independent voices. You can find it in your App store. It connects you with the creators, ideas, and communities you care about most. Many, if not all, of the progressive political voices you want to hear can be found on Substack. Below are a few of the contributors, followed by Democrats of Rossmoor Board members:
- The Contrarian
- The Bulwark (former Republicans perspectives)
- Timothy Snyder, Historian, Thinking About
- Dan Pfeiffer
- Letters from an American (Heather Cox Richardson)
- Chop Wood, Carry Water (Jessica Craven)
- The Warning with Steve Schmidt
- The Great Transformation with Mike Madrid
- Hopium Chronicles by Simon Rosenberg
- Law Dork with Chris Geidner (on court cases)
- Meidas Touch Network (for a younger view)
- The Parnas Perspective
- Robert Hubbell. Citizen. Optimist. Realist