Barack Obama

Whether it’s happening or not.

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

Keep in mind what it meant to the people who created it.

Cynthia Tucker shares her hope that a new generation of activists can learn from Lewis' courageous and peaceful fight for “beloved community.”

Iran and surplus imperialism.

“Big money alone does not fully explain the Republican embrace of the gospel of more.”

In 1988, Jesse Jackson ran for president on a platform that included universalist policies like single-payer. His success terrified establishment Democrats.

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks.

Winning the South Carolina primary requires exciting a crucial constituency.

It took a while for pundits and other observers to truly understand the power of the new platform.

A scholar of social movements in Iran asks why the US has consistently failed to support that country's activist reform movements.

Even Donald Trump’s most draconian and violent immigration policies are still circumscribed by the interests of capital.

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.

A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther King Jr.‘s moral and ethical vision.

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?

Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism.

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?

How the United States created the largest immigrant detention system in the world.

No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.