From the “About” page of the Jewish Daily Forward:

The Forward is a legendary name in American journalism and a revered institution in American Jewish life. Launched as a Yiddish-language daily newspaper on April 22, 1897, the Forward entered the din of New York’s immigrant press as a defender of trade unionism and moderate, democratic socialism.

Read more: http://forward.com/about/#ixzz1tdnU82R8

I think the word “forward” does indeed have ties to the kind of democratic socialism that gave us the European-style welfare state.

This is a good thing. It’s about time people with brains in the US started to show the stones necessary to actually start improving things.