Karl Marx

On the ways that people have conflated freedom with whiteness but pays too little attention to the force of freedom as a concept.

Two books trace anti-police uprisings to the urban riots of the Civil Rights era. But as people took to the streets in 2020, why did so few pick up a brick?

The past has habitually been repurposed in a manner inhibiting ethical accountability in the present.

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

From Bronze Age farmers to New World colonialists, the stories of struggle to claim more ground have shaped where and how we live.

The “Middle Class Nation” and “American Exceptionalism” found each other late, and under specific circumstances.

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?

Vivian Gornick’s and Jodi Dean’s books mine a lost history of comradeship, determination, and intimacy.

We are demigods of discards – but our copious garbage became a toxic burden only with the modern cult of ‘disposability.’

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

The dark history of how coffee took over the world.

On the myths and rituals of the market, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the rise of neoliberalism.

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

Looking at the Pullman Strike and the political forces it stirred.

Despite his reputation as a liberal, Dewey's staunch commitment to democracy put him on a collision course with capitalism.

America’s long history of predatory lending.

Why we must ask not only what stories our landscapes of commemoration tell, but also what stories they leave out.

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.