How the Vermont senator went from a third-party independent to a 2020 frontrunner.

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.

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

Sanders was expressing broadly bipartisan enthusiasm for Soviet reform, not a love of authoritarianism.

For close to a century, conservatives have seen all government programs as the road to socialism.

Policies dating to the 1930s have helped shape the conflict defining today’s politics.

Reactionary leaders are invoking communism as a way of attacking the left, says author and activist Richard Seymour.