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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.

A sweeping new history weaves personal, intellectual, and spiritual narratives into a book that reminds us of the potential of the socialist movement.

The late socialist writer's first book was a deep exploration of how the US labor movement became so weakened.

The consequences of racial separation are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.

In the absence of tax dollars, American cities like Baltimore are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

The history of the United States as the history of capitalism.

During the 1840s, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists.

Today's centrists are a hot mess.

It basically started the wave of activism that revived the left—and taught people to get serious about power.

The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

The word “isolationist” has been used by the U.S. foreign policy establishment to narrow the range of acceptable public opinion on America’s role in the world.

Long before Trump, politicians on the country’s West Coast mobilized a white working-class base through violent hate of Chinese and Japanese immigrants.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."