Jesse Jackson Sr.

Understanding Jesse Jackson and the radicalism of 1980s Black presidential politics.

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

Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.

As Cornel West is receiving ballot access help from Republicans, 20 years ago Al Sharpton’s campaign for president was largely orchestrated by Roger Stone.

The Christian, the athlete, and the activist.

Clintonites taught their party how to talk about helping people without actually doing it.

On L.A. solidarity and the Black radical tradition.

We looked at 271 presidential candidate logos from 1968–2020 to find out how race and gender intersect with color choices.

How a party spent decades making itself white.

In 1968, impoverished Americans flocked to DC to live out MLK's final dream: economic equality for all.

The mighty but divided soul of C.L. Franklin.

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

As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.

Can language unify the people?

Demography has not managed to be destiny in the past half-century—but predictions of a millenarian shift have not lost their appeal.

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

“This isn’t about being for one group or against another. It’s about basic human rights.”

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.

The government responded with ruthless persecution — just one egregious example in the NSA’s long, sordid history of fiercely guarding its secrecy.

The Law and Economics movement was one front in the decades-long advance of a revived free-market ideology that became the new American consensus.