Eugene V. Debs

The American socialism movement's open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.

As the HBO series The Gilded Age suggests, charity allowed wealthy women to play a visible role in public life. It was also a site of inter-class animosity.

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.

Aaron Sorkin's new film dramatizes three pivotal moments in the lives of comedy legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

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

How did a radical social activist, killed for his politics, become the figurehead of capitalist and imperial power?

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

Limited education on Keller's life has implications for how students perceive people with disabilities .

Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

World War I was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle has come to symbolize an era of muckraking and reform. But its author sought revolution, not regulation.

Changes wrought by the war still shape America today.