re: #3 iossarian

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

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.

Uh, yeah. The Forverts was called that because the founders were socialists, and it’s still a strongly progressive publication.