Bernie Sanders

History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past record, is not always what you get from a president once in power.

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

Grass-roots pressure will be key to turning the idea into reality.

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.

“Modern Housing,” by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.

In 1860, a novel paramilitary-style organization mobilized hundreds of thousands against the Southern planter class.

The fight over free education is much older than you think.

Susan Neiman, a philosopher who studies Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past, examines how the United States can remember slavery and segregation.

The tribal sovereignty movement from the late 1960s never really ended. To find the future of the Native left, look to the past.

A conversation with John Nichols about the night in 1944 that altered the trajectory of the Democratic Party.

Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.

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.

If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the left, it should at least listen to itself from 30 years ago.

Far from making Americans crave stability, the pandemic underscores how everything is up for grabs.

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

Lessons from a century ago.

The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks.