Bernie Sanders

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism? 

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? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-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.