Eugene V. Debs

Clarence Darrow’s unfinished work.

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

US shifts on propaganda efforts show a cycle of dismantling and revival, as tech-driven “information states” blur lines between influence, control, and freedom.

From cowboys to labor leaders, David Griscom's debut book calls on Texans to reclaim their leftist roots—and examine who buried them in the first place.

A close examination of the writings of Wisconsin's Victor Berger shows that his views on race changed dramatically over time.

Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless.

How she transformed public health in her fight against lead poisoning.

A new book shows that Marxism in the US "was never constrained to the reiteration of a set of dogmatic principles one associates with party ideologues."

Thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel. They are taking part in a tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism.

Donald Trump recently deployed California’s National Guard to repress protests in LA. The National Guard has a long history of breaking up protests and strikes.

Calls to defund the Marxist left and similar mobilizations against rumors of a new red dawn are nothing new.

During World War I, America lurched toward autocracy. Resistance was minimal.

Black Marxist thought emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and the destructiveness of that oppression for all workers.

A new collection of essays by David Montgomery shows how he used labor history as a means of grappling with the largest questions in American history.

A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.

Grassroots support for public banks early in the 20th century revealed the popularity of socialism-aligned economic ideas.

In the 1920s, many in the U.S. fought for a living Constitution. Plenty of others wanted it dead.

A new book blames institutional Protestantism for undermining a vibrant strain of Christian radicalism that swirled through the Gilded Age.

The history of American Communism shows that dogma and fervor are no substitute for popular support.

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