Bernie Sanders

During the 1840s, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists.

Today's centrists are a hot mess.

It basically started the wave of activism that revived the left—and taught people to get serious about power.

The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

The word “isolationist” has been used by the U.S. foreign policy establishment to narrow the range of acceptable public opinion on America’s role in the world.

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

What's the matter with left-populism?

Just because the filibuster wasn't created to promote racial slavery doesn't mean there’s no good argument against it.

The filibuster, invented to uphold slavery, must be eliminated if Democrats hope to deliver progressive legislation.

Daryl Michael Scott on propaganda and myth from ‘The 1619 Project’ to Trumpism.

Mass inequality in the Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.

There’s no reason we can’t have universal childcare that’s wildly popular and provides high-quality care — in fact, during World War II, we did.

The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.

A political history of the present moment.

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.