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A group of men gather at a headquarters of the Communist Party USA following a protest demanding pay raise and an end to police brutality, US, circa 1920. Hirz / Archive Photos / Getty

How McCarthyism and the Red Scare Hurt the Black Freedom Struggle

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.
by Paul Heideman via Jacobin on May 21, 2020
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Conservative Fatalism About the Coronavirus Might Actually Help Us

The philosophy behind calls to lift stay-at-home orders.
by Lara Freidenfelds via Made By History on May 21, 2020

The Inner Life of American Communism

Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.
by Corey Robin via The Nation on May 5, 2020

History Won’t Save Us

Why the battle for history must be won in the here and now.
by William Hogeland via The New Republic on March 25, 2020

Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.
by Adaner Usmani, Jacobin via Jacobin on March 17, 2020

Lovers Under an Apple Tree

Why did the priest and the choir singer die, and what was the nature of their love?
by Audrey Clare Farley via Contingent on March 8, 2020

Not So Great

Reflections on the problems with progressives’ central principle that activist government is the only mechanism able to solve a modern society’s problems.
by William Voegeli via The New Criterion on February 27, 2020
Silhouetted soldiers with guns in the street at night

The Imperial History of US Policing: An Interview with Stuart Schrader

Dan Berger interviews Stuart Schrader about his new book on US imperialism.
by Dan Berger, Stuart Schrader via Black Perspectives on January 29, 2020
Photo of Richard Holsbrook on an abstract paint background.

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.
by Samuel Moyn via London Review of Books on January 27, 2020

The New China Scare

Why America shouldn’t panic about its latest challenger.
by Fareed Zakaria via Foreign Affairs on December 9, 2019

The Obamanauts

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?
by Corey Robin via Dissent on October 7, 2019
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The Outsider

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?
by Matthew Rose via First Things on September 16, 2019

Biden’s Defense Of Anti-Busing Past Distorts History Of Segregation In Delaware

Like other northern liberals in the 1970s, Biden worked to restrict federal civil rights enforcement to the Jim Crow South.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Talking Points Memo on July 18, 2019
Hillary Clinton speaking about early childhood development.

The Mismeasure of Minds

25 years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die.
by Michael E. Staub via Boston Review on May 8, 2019

‘It’s a Racial Thing, Don’t Kid Yourself’: An Oral History of Chicago’s 1983 Mayoral Race

How Harold Washington became Chicago’s first black mayor.
by Jordan Heller via Intelligencer on April 2, 2019

The Old Culture War Over Bible Reading in Public Schools is Starting Again

It was among the first social issues to split American Protestants into liberal and conservative camps.
by David Mislin via The Conversation on February 4, 2019

The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government

What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Atlantic on January 31, 2019
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How the Federal Government Became Responsible for Disaster Relief

The Alaska earthquake that put Washington in charge of natural disasters.
by Andrew Morris via Made By History on December 4, 2018
Armed militiamen in front of a house in Jieh, Lebanon, Jan. 18, 1976. AP

How Likely Is A New American Civil War?

Surprising lessons from Lebanon’s Conflict in the 1970s.
by Emily Whalen via Task & Purpose on October 18, 2018

Philanthropists Will Not Save Us

All of Andrew Carnegie’s arguments were devoted to explaining why inequality ultimately was good: not only for its beneficiaries, but for poor people as well.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Public Books on October 17, 2018

Evangelicals Bring the Votes, Catholics Bring the Brains

To understand Catholic overrepresentation on the U.S. Supreme Court, we must look to the history of American Catholic education.
by Gene Zubovich via Aeon on October 9, 2018
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Ante Up: The Scales of Power Seen Through Norman Podhoretz’s Eyes

In retrospect, it was peculiar but not surprising that the Jewish-American novel peaked early—halfway through the beginning, to be precise.
by Frank Guan via The Point on September 29, 2018

Paens to the 'Postwar Order' Won't Save Us

A critique of a recent open letter by members of the foreign policy intelligentsia.
by Stephen Wertheim via War on the Rocks on August 6, 2018
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Ceding Power to the Executive is Backfiring on Free-Trade Advocates

Liberal Democrats sidestepped Congress to bring free trade to the U.S. Now, Trump is able to do the same thing to destroy it.
by Jennifer Delton via Made By History on June 7, 2018

The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee

How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support.
by Peter-Christian Aigner, Michael Brenes via The New Republic on May 11, 2018

Teacher Strikes Might Hurt Republicans This Time

Labor unrest harmed Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s. This time the GOP might be the loser.
by Stephen Mihm via Bloomberg on April 27, 2018

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on April 18, 2018

Somewhere in Between

The rise and fall of Clintonism.
by Ryan Cooper via The Nation on February 14, 2018
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

Martin Luther King Jr. Spent the Last Year of His Life Detested by the Liberal Establishment

King was roundly denounced for his stances against the Vietnam War and injustices north of the Mason-Dixon line.
by Zaid Jilani via The Intercept on January 15, 2018

What America Taught the Nazis

In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States.
by Ira Katznelson via The Atlantic on October 5, 2017
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