J. Edgar Hoover

On the 50th anniversary of his death, it’s time to remember who he really was.

The history of Black Socialism in America.

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

What motivated Viola Liuzzo to take up the cause of justice hundreds of miles from her home?

He risked his life to expose Emmett Till’s death and the Freedom Rides to a national audience.

For more than a century, the American government has surveilled and harassed activists from marginalized communities.

Niebuhr is a theological hero to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

100 years ago, war proved to be a godsend for a president with no tolerance for opposition. We would be wise to heed the lesson.

Mark Felt wasn’t out to protect American democracy and the rule of law; he was out to get a promotion.

From COINTELPRO to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.

The memorial to the men sat in a field until 2010 when officials took a fork lift to it.

Two political pioneers staged a "Pantsuit Revolution."

The South couldn't stop the rumors. Can we?

The executive order that forced Japanese-Americans from their homes also put immigrants from Italy under surveillance.

What the 1971 uprising and massacre reveal about our prison system and the liberal democratic state.

If radicalism meant insecurity, and immigration meant radicalism, the government's course was clear.

Politicians are suddenly eager to disown failed policies on American prisons, but they have failed to reckon with the history.

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.

How the Supreme Court got it wrong.