Bernie Sanders

The spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged, continuing to animate the political landscape today.

Should equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics?

Vito Marcantonio fought racial, social, and economic injustices, promoting cross-cultural solidarity and progressive ideals amid McCarthyism and segregation.

Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about the present tense?

The law is routinely blamed for a very real problem it had nothing to do with.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy.

Decisions about medical training and licensing in the 19th and early 20th century are still having an impact today.

Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can explain class operation while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it obscures historically specific social relations.

A sweeping new history weaves personal, intellectual, and spiritual narratives into a book that reminds us of the potential of the socialist movement.

The late socialist writer's first book was a deep exploration of how the US labor movement became so weakened.

The consequences of racial separation are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.

In the absence of tax dollars, American cities like Baltimore are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

The history of the United States as the history of capitalism.