Karl Marx

The paths the country took out of that earlier crisis offer valuable lessons for what we should do now, and what we should fear.

The 2007–2008 crisis was an epic clusterfuck. The rise of private equity has only made things worse.

Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.

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

The result has been reactionary, often racist intellectual defenses of inequality.

The often forgotten takeover of St. Louis by workers showed that the U.S. isn't immune to Paris Commune–style eruptions of class consciousness.

In 1877, one million workers went on strike and fought police and federal troops in cities across America.

While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

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

Taking seriously the midlife crisis.

A spectre is haunting houses—the spectre of possession.

Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.

On the devout abolitionists who excoriated American exceptionalism.

On the nineteenth-century artists and thinkers who pictured a future of abundance powered by steam.

The project's editor falsifies the history of American history-writing, openly embracing the privileging of “narrative” over “actual fact.”

Are the truths in the Declaration of Independence really self-evident?

America, you’ve got the dates wrong. Your intense debate over which year marks the real beginning of the United States—1619 (slavery’s arrival) or 1776.

Reflections on Richard Wright’s recently published novel, "The Man Who Lived Underground."