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From Street Gang to Revolutionaries
José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez and the Young Lords laid the groundwork for radical racial justice movements.
by
Felipe Hinojosa
via
Religion Dispatches
on
February 4, 2025
Opus Dei, Embezzlement, and Human Trafficking
The Catholic order has branches all over the world, and a deep history of unethical and illegal behavior.
by
Mark Oppenheimer
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Gareth Gore
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
on
January 21, 2025
The Groypers’ Battle Within the GOP
The “Groypers,” the furthest-right fringe of Trump’s coalition, want the party to adopt an overtly white nationalist agenda.
by
Craig Johnson
via
Jacobin
on
January 20, 2025
When the Personal Was Political
Second-wave feminists meant business—but they had a lot of fun at it, too.
by
Jill Filipovic
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Democracy Journal
on
December 17, 2024
The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism
Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.
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Thomas Zimmer
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Democracy Americana
on
December 16, 2024
The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism
Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.
by
Thomas Zimmer
via
Democracy Americana
on
December 16, 2024
The First Punch
There are uncanny parallels between the elections of 2024 and 1856, with one big exception: in 1856, it was the political left that was on the offensive.
by
Matthew Karp
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Harper’s
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December 5, 2024
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The Early History of “Selling America to Americans”
Using film and advertising to sell capitalism and nationalism to immigrants in the early 20th century.
by
Caroline Jack
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HNN
on
November 26, 2024
What Is Decolonisation?
There’s more talk of decolonisation than ever, while true independence for former colonies has faded from view. Why?
by
Lydia Walker
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Aeon
on
November 21, 2024
Whose Ronald Reagan?
Fighting over the legacy of a conservative hero in the era of Trump.
by
Susan B. Glasser
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Foreign Affairs
on
October 22, 2024
How ‘Left Behind’ Got Left Behind
A changing political mood among evangelicals has many believers imagining the end of the world differently than they used to.
by
Matthew D. Taylor
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The Bulwark
on
September 26, 2024
The Communist Party Helped Shape US History
A new book tells the story of American communism as an integral part of 20th-century US history, with Communists “as social critics and social change agents.”
by
Daniel Colligan
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Jacobin
on
September 16, 2024
Genesis of the Modern American Right
During the Great Depression, financial elites translated European fascism into an American form that joined high capital with lower middle-class populism.
by
Joseph M. Fronczak
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Matthew Wills
via
JSTOR Daily
on
September 16, 2024
Bigoted Bookselling: When the Nazis Opened a Propaganda Bookstore in Los Angeles
On Hitler’s attempt to win Americans over to his cause.
by
Evan Friss
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Literary Hub
on
August 21, 2024
Jesus Freaks: On the Free Spirited Evangelicals of the 1970s and 80s
Chronicling the emergence of a unique blend of counterculture and Christianity.
by
Eliza Griswold
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Literary Hub
on
August 8, 2024
What History Tells Us Might Happen to the Republican Party
The signs that precede the crumbling of American political parties and the creation of new ones.
by
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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The Bulwark
on
July 31, 2024
Did ‘Churchianity’ Sink American Socialism?
A new book blames institutional Protestantism for undermining a vibrant strain of Christian radicalism that swirled through the Gilded Age.
by
Heath W. Carter
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Commonweal
on
July 26, 2024
Were Pirates Foes of the Modern Order—or Its Secret Sharers?
We’ve long viewed them as liberty-loving rebels. But it’s time to take off the eye patch.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
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The New Yorker
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July 15, 2024
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60 Years Later, Freedom Schools Are Still Radical—and Necessary
The Freedom Schools curriculums developed in 1964 remain urgently needed, especially in our era of book bans and backlash.
by
Jon Hale
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Made By History
on
July 8, 2024
Kultur Klux Klan and Cultural Pluralism at One Hundred
Looking back at Horace M. Kallen's collection of essays entitled "Culture and Democracy in the United States."
by
Chad Alan Goldberg
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U.S. Intellectual History Blog
on
June 27, 2024
The Cause That Turned Idealists Into Authoritarian Zealots
The history of American Communism shows that dogma and fervor are no substitute for popular support.
by
Maurice Isserman
via
The Atlantic
on
June 17, 2024
Kids These Days
Compared to their 1960s forerunners, today’s young radicals seem far less interested in moving towards responsible adulthood.
by
D. G. Hart
via
Law & Liberty
on
June 5, 2024
Democracy Was a Decolonial Project
For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.
by
Aziz Rana
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Boston Review
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May 30, 2024
California Communism and Its Afterlives
A new book explores the Communist Party's western base and its alliance with the labor movement.
by
Matt Ray
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Matthew Wranovics
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
May 27, 2024
New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity
Two decades of U.S. policy appear to be rooted in a mistaken understanding of what happened that day.
by
Daniel Benjamin
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Steven Simon
via
The Atlantic
on
May 20, 2024
False Prophet
Meir Kahane's legacy in Israel and America.
by
John Ganz
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Unpopular Front
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May 10, 2024
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Campus Protests Are Called Disruptive. So Was the Civil Rights Movement
Like student protesters today, Martin Luther King Jr. and other 1960s civil rights activists were criticized as disruptive and disorderly.
by
Jeanne Theoharis
via
Made By History
on
May 9, 2024
Reviving the Language of Empire
On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.
by
Aziz Rana
,
Nora Caplan-Bricker
via
Jewish Currents
on
May 9, 2024
Jack Conroy and the Lost Era of Proletarian Literature
In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.
by
Devin Thomas O’Shea
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The Nation
on
April 30, 2024
May Day is a Rust Belt Holiday
Forged in the cauldron of Chicago’s streets and factories, born from the experience of workers in the mills and plants of Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
by
Ed Simon
via
Belt Magazine
on
April 29, 2024
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