Michael Harrington

The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?

A sweeping new history weaves personal, intellectual, and spiritual narratives into a book that reminds us of the potential of the socialist movement.

Documents show Henry Kissinger misled President Gerald Ford about clandestine U.S. efforts to undermine the elected government of Salvador Allende.

How did taxes become something we "do"?

Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.

In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.

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

In 1950s America, the Cold War was raging, but socialists were playing key roles in the early civil rights movement.

The idealistic presidential candidate was on the verge of seizing control of the 1968 race just as Sirhan Sirhan’s bullet struck.

The New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.

“Mississippi’s white Appalachians may have owned the earth, but they could never own the past.”

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.

A review of "Great Society: A New History," by Amity Shlaes.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

It wasn't some radical left-wing pipedream. It was moderate; and it worked.