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Idylls of the Liberal

The American dreams of Mark Lilla and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

by Asad Haider via Viewpoint Magazine on September 11, 2017

A New View of Grenada’s Revolution

The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.

by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro via New York Review of Books on July 26, 2017

On Health Care, History is Watching. And it’s Watching Four Senators in Particular.

We should not be surprised by the attacks on Obamacare, they are, in fact, the typical response to social reform.

by E. J. Dionne Jr. via Washington Post on July 16, 2017

The Souring of American Exceptionalism

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on July 3, 2017

The New Working Class

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.

by Gabriel Winant via Dissent on June 27, 2017

Political cartoon depicting fat-cat tycoons sitting on money on a dock made of commodities held aloft by struggling laborers.

From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American 'Elite'

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.

by Steven Conn via Origins on May 1, 2017

Not Our Independence Day

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.

by William Hogeland, Jonah Walters via Jacobin on July 4, 2016

Jeff Bezos

“What We Have is Capture of the Regulators’ Minds, A Much More Sophisticated Form of Capture Than Putting Money in Their Pockets”

How every major industry and marketplace in America came to be controlled by a single, monolithic player.

by Barry C. Lynn, Asher Schechter via Pro-Market on March 26, 2016

The History of National Women's History Month

The celebratory month has its roots in the socialist and labor movements.

by Julia Zorthian via TIME on February 29, 2016

Malcolm X

The Legacy of Malcolm X

Malcolm X died fifty-one years ago today, just as he was moving toward revolutionary ideas that challenged oppression in all its forms.

by Ahmed Shawki via Jacobin on February 21, 2016

Lincoln and Marx

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.

by Robin Blackburn via Jacobin on August 28, 2012

A collage graphic featuring the couple from "American Gothic" at a cookout.

Labor Day in America: Or, the Day That is Not in May

America’s ambivalence about labor is nothing new. In the colonial era the ruling class had nothing but contempt for anything that could be justly called "work."

by Edward G. Gray via Commonplace on October 1, 2006

Cartoon depictinf a man pouring a bowl of sugar babies in front of a group of onlookers.

Birchismo

Culture-shocked Americans in the 1960s were all too happy to take directions from the John Birch Society: take an extreme right and drive forever.

by Dan Kelly via The Baffler on December 16, 1999

Painting imagining John Brown (bearded man embracing Black child), being escorted by authorities.

Eugene Debs’s Stirring, Never-Before-Published Eulogy to John Brown at Harpers Ferry

In 1908, Eugene Debs eulogized John Brown as America's "greatest liberator," vowing the Socialist Party would continue Brown's work. We publish it here in full.

by Eugene V. Debs via Jacobin on October 1, 1908

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