Eugene V. Debs

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.

Why unionism is so integral to achieving equality.

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

Limited education on Keller's life has implications for how students perceive people with disabilities .

Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.