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From Noncompliant Bodies to Civil Disobedience
Lessons from Crip Camp, a new documentary that explores the roots of the disability rights movement.
by
Susan Stryker
via
The Nation
on
March 24, 2020
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.
by
Ed Morales
via
The Nation
on
March 24, 2020
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.
by
Adaner Usmani
,
Jacobin
via
Jacobin
on
March 17, 2020
This Isn’t the First Time Liberals Thought Disease Would Make the Case for Universal Health Care
Lessons from a century ago.
by
Beatrix Hoffman
,
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
March 13, 2020
Michael Lind on Reviving Democracy
To fix things, we must acknowledge the nature of the problem.
by
Michael Lind
,
Aaron Sibarium
via
The American Interest
on
January 29, 2020
Life Under the Algorithm
How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.
by
Gabriel Winant
via
The New Republic
on
December 4, 2019
Jimmy Hoffa and 'The Irishman': A True Crime Story?
Martin Scorsese's new film is premised on a confession that is not credible.
by
Jack Goldsmith
via
New York Review of Books
on
September 26, 2019
The Socialist Pioneers of Birth Control
When birth control was still taboo, early socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women.
by
Adam J. Sacks
via
Jacobin
on
August 14, 2019
Elaine Race Massacre: Red Summer in Arkansas
An interactive exhibit that explores the events and consequences of the deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history.
via
Center For Arkansas History And Culture
on
July 29, 2019
The Road Not Taken
The shuttering of the GM works in Lordstown will also bury a lost chapter in the fight for workers’ control.
by
Sarah Jaffe
via
The New Republic
on
June 24, 2019
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.
by
Daniel Wortel-London
via
Dissent
on
June 5, 2019
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.
by
Cynthia R. Greenlee
,
Monica M. White
via
Civil Eats
on
December 20, 2018
partner
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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Retro Report
on
November 18, 2018
partner
The Senate Has Lost Its Way
Here's how it's supposed to handle Supreme Court nominations.
by
Dov Weinryb Grohsgal
via
Made By History
on
October 6, 2018
Capital of the World
The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.
by
Kim Phillips-Fein
via
The Nation
on
August 2, 2018
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.
by
Moshe Z. Marvit
via
The Nation
on
July 5, 2018
Well-Behaved Women Make History Too
What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?
by
Joanna Scutts
via
Slate
on
June 21, 2018
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.
via
American Heritage Center Blog
on
April 18, 2018
'Housing Is Everybody’s Problem'
The forgotten crusade of Morris Milgram.
by
Amanda Kolson Hurley
via
Places Journal
on
October 10, 2017
The Rise and Fall of the “Sellout”
The history of the epithet, from its rise among leftists and jazz critics and folkies to its recent fall from favor.
by
Franz Nicolay
via
Slate
on
July 28, 2017
A Billionaires’ Republic
A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.
by
Jedediah Britton-Purdy
via
The Nation
on
July 11, 2017
Why Are America’s Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?
Suburban corporate campuses have isolated themselves by design from the communities their products were supposed to impact.
by
Hunter Oatman-Stanford
via
Collectors Weekly
on
April 8, 2016
partner
Women at Work: A History
Women in the workplace, from 19th century domestic workers to the Rosies of World War II to the labs of Silicon Valley.
via
BackStory
on
February 6, 2015
Universalizing Settler Liberty
America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.
by
Aziz Rana
,
Nikhil Pal Singh
via
Jacobin
on
August 4, 2014
The Voluntarism Fantasy
Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.
by
Mike Konczal
via
Democracy Journal
on
March 17, 2014
The History of Scabby the Rat
The most visible symbol of a labor movement that isn't dead yet, that is willing to fight, not just make backroom deals.
by
Sarah Jaffe
,
Molly Crabapple
via
Vice
on
March 7, 2013
American Dreamers
Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.
by
William Hogeland
via
Boston Review
on
May 1, 2008
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