Eugene V. Debs

The law, passed in a frenzy after the First World War, is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was founded on the principle of interracial organizing.

Ever since the execution of labor radicals in 1886, reactionaries have tried to tarnish their legacy — and leftists have honored them as working-class martyrs.

In the early 1900s heyday of the Socialist Party, Texas boasted a vibrant state party that attracted oppressed farmers in droves.

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

A look at socialism’s far-reaching influence on American thought.

Congress was able to break the rail strike last week because of a century-old law designed to weaken the disruptive power of unions.

American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very “American” values it is accused of undermining.

A two-volume biography tracks the life and times of one of Harlem’s leading socialists.

Authorities who investigated Jane Stanford’s mysterious death said the wealthy widow had no enemies. A new book finds that she had many.

The US Civil War was a revolutionary upheaval that crushed slavery and stoked hopes of a broader emancipation against the rule of property.

The American socialism movement's open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.

As the HBO series The Gilded Age suggests, charity allowed wealthy women to play a visible role in public life. It was also a site of inter-class animosity.

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.

Aaron Sorkin's new film dramatizes three pivotal moments in the lives of comedy legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism? 

How did a radical social activist, killed for his politics, become the figurehead of capitalist and imperial power?

The GOP’s new embrace of Lincoln, emancipation, and Juneteenth is no sign of progress.

A review of Jon Meacham's newest book and documentary.

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.