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Illustration of Jesus Christ showing anger at money changers in the temple

When Did Jesus Become a Capitalist?

How did a radical social activist, killed for his politics, become the figurehead of capitalist and imperial power?
Socialist deputies march with strikers on February 12 1934.

Feb 6 1934/Jan 6 2021

What do the two events really have in common?
Postcard depicting the Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh

The Rise of Healthcare in Steel City

On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
Rev. Timothy McDonald III in First Iconium Baptist Church
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Attacking Sunday Voting is Part of a Long Tradition of Controlling Black Americans

The centuries-long battle over Sunday activities is really about African Americans' freedom and agency.
A picture of Boston being modernized through urban development, construction is happening on several buildings.

How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?

A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
Photo taken from behind two men in a machine gun nest

‘The Road to Blair Mountain’

It’s the biggest battle on U.S. soil that most Americans have never heard of.
Eugene Debs in a suit

Eugene Debs Believed in Socialism Because He Believed in Democracy

Eugene Debs’s unswerving commitment to democracy and internationalism was born out of his revulsion at the tyranny of industrial capitalism.

Our Chief Danger

The story of the democratic movements that the framers of the U.S. Constitution feared and sought to suppress.

The Free and the Brave

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.

The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”

One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into law was far more savvy.

One Parallel for the Coronavirus Crisis? The Great Depression

“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”

Bad Romance

The afterlife of Vivian Gornick's "The Romance of American Communism" shows that we bear the weight of dead generations—and sometimes living ones, too.

From Noncompliant Bodies to Civil Disobedience

Lessons from Crip Camp, a new documentary that explores the roots of the disability rights movement.

The Young Lords’ Revolution

A new book looks at the history of the Afro-Latinx radical activist group and how their influence continues to be felt.

Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.
Broadside with information about tuberculosis.

This Isn’t the First Time Liberals Thought Disease Would Make the Case for Universal Health Care

Lessons from a century ago.
Photograph of Michael Lind wearing a blazer and tie.

Michael Lind on Reviving Democracy

To fix things, we must acknowledge the nature of the problem.

Life Under the Algorithm

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

Jimmy Hoffa and 'The Irishman': A True Crime Story?

Martin Scorsese's new film is premised on a confession that is not credible.
Margaret Sanger appeals before a Senate Committee for federal birth-control legislation in Washington, D.C., March 1, 1934.

The Socialist Pioneers of Birth Control

When birth control was still taboo, early socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women.

Elaine Race Massacre: Red Summer in Arkansas

An interactive exhibit that explores the events and consequences of the deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history.
A broken key with a fist

The Road Not Taken

The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.
A rent strike in Harlem, New York City, September 1919.

The Fight for Rent Control

In the early twentieth century, immigrant tenant organizers made rent control laws a reality. Today, working-class New Yorkers still fight for housing justice.
Monica M. White, left, pictured alongside her new book.

The History of Black Farmers Uniting Against Racism

A new book details the cooperative practices of Black farmers in the Deep South and Detroit who played a key role in the Civil Rights movement.
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How a Folk Singer’s Murder Forced Chile to Confront Its Past

Víctor Jara was a legendary Chilean folk singer and political activist whose murder during a U.S.-backed military coup in 1973 went unsolved for decades.
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The Senate Has Lost Its Way

Here's how it's supposed to handle Supreme Court nominations.
New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

For 60 Years, This Powerful Conservative Group Has Worked to Crush Labor

Now the Janus decision has helped push the National Right to Work Committee and its sister organizations closer to that goal.

Well-Behaved Women Make History Too

What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?
Will Lee as Mr. Hooper

Spotlighting Communism & Hollywood in the Papers of Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper

The actor who played the loveable grocer found his way to Sesame Street after being blacklisted during the Red Scare.

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