Eugene V. Debs

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

Limited education on Keller's life has implications for how students perceive people with disabilities .

Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

World War I was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle has come to symbolize an era of muckraking and reform. But its author sought revolution, not regulation.

Changes wrought by the war still shape America today.

The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.

The history of the left in the United States is a history of betrayal.

Despite his reputation as a liberal, Dewey's staunch commitment to democracy put him on a collision course with capitalism.

It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.

A new biography of Lucy Parsons makes it clear that the activist deserves attention apart from her more well-known husband.

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.

Headlines tell us that the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have both opened a new chapter of populist politics. How is that possible?