Bernie Sanders

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

The left case for an independent Canada.

The region has unique political traditions tailor-made for the momentum gathering behind economic populism in the Democratic Party.

UnitedHealthcare, the health insurer whose CEO was murdered, has spent decades fighting and winning political battles to maintain the for-profit health system.

Can the Clinton campaign slogan chart a path forward for Democrats? Its history tells another story.

On campaign finance, economic policy, and the 2024 US election.

The meritocratic pitch was emblematic of Democrats’ long march away from working-class voters.

Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson defended the abolition of capital punishment at a moment when political support for that movement reached its nadir.

Grassroots support for public banks early in the 20th century revealed the popularity of socialism-aligned economic ideas.

At its peak in the 1920s and early ’30s, the Socialist Party in Wisconsin used confrontational tactics and nonsocialists alliances to make legislative advances.

The spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged, continuing to animate the political landscape today.

Should equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics?

Vito Marcantonio fought racial, social, and economic injustices, promoting cross-cultural solidarity and progressive ideals amid McCarthyism and segregation.

Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about the present tense?

The law is routinely blamed for a very real problem it had nothing to do with.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

In a new book, “Did it Happen Here?,” scholars debate what the F-word conceals and what it reveals.

How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy.

Decisions about medical training and licensing in the 19th and early 20th century are still having an impact today.

Keir Milburn argues that generational analysis can explain class operation while Adolph Reed Jr. writes that it obscures historically specific social relations.