Donald Trump

People comparing covid-19 and AIDS may obscure more than they clarify.

The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.

History teaches us that prioritizing the economy could kill hundreds of thousands.

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

Has Trump plunged America into another Great Depression?

Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.

Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.

Citizenship used to demand sacrifice. Then we taught Americans to buy things instead.

What we can learn from the Spanish flu.

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

Failing upward with Oliver North.

Robin D.G. Kelley on the predecessors to Antifa.

The GE exec was known for his big personality. He should be known for the role he played in creating America's toxic corporate culture on a base of inequality.

Plan Colombia functioned like an ideological laboratory for forever war in the twenty-first century.

In 1962, tricked black Southerners into migrating north and transformed families' lives forever.

In segregated units set up under the Federal Theatre Project, African American artists took on work usually reserved for whites and wrote radical dramas.

The similarities between 2020 and 1972 are too astonishing to ignore. But there’s one big difference.

A look at the impeachment of Warren Hastings and the nature of American power.

Even Donald Trump’s most draconian and violent immigration policies are still circumscribed by the interests of capital.