U.S. Politics / Elections

Three Times When the World Broke Open—and Two When it Might Again

The millennial embrace of socialism has allowed a new generation to draw inspiration from a long legacy of struggle.

Fifty years ago, a protest against the Miss America pageant kicked off a new phase of the women’s liberation movement. We present a narrative history of that landmark protest, as …

A conversation with directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera about their new film, The Infiltrators.

History suggests that the battle over the bailout—which is set to be delivered through a once-obscure Treasury Department mechanism called the Exchange Stabilization Fund—has only just begun.

The thousands of low-wage, hourly, and gig-work employees who are getting sent home amid the crisis need an income guarantee that goes beyond traditional unemployment insurance.

Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.

Ultimately, finding an optimal tax rate for the super-wealthy is a moral and political issue as much as an economic one.

If there is a vision of U.S. patriotism that is redeemable, it must surely draw on Seeger’s insistence that it encompass both ardent dissent and robust internationalism.

In cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs.