ThinkProgress, a Top Progressive News Site, Has Shut Down

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Political Reporter

Published Sep. 6 2019 1:15PM EDT

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ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in the shadow of the Bush administration and helped define progressivism during the Obama years, is shutting down.

The outlet, which served as an editorially independent project of the Democratic Party think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), will stop current operations...