History

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?

Apr 18, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Steven Hahn

Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later

Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.

Apr 3, 2018 / Feature / Michael K. Honey

Flirtations With Anarchy

Flirtations With Anarchy Flirtations With Anarchy

Two new films take different approaches to Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx, two major figures of modern political history.

Mar 30, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans

A map showing the US empire in 1898

The Left’s Embrace of Empire The Left’s Embrace of Empire

The history of the left in the United States is a history of betrayal.

Mar 28, 2018 / Lyle Jeremy Rubin

Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics

Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics Coming to Terms With Ezra Pound’s Politics

What is the relationship between Pound’s fascism and his poetry?

Mar 28, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Evan Kindley

The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’

The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’ The World of ‘Crime and Punishment’

A new translation captures the painful backdrop of Dostoyevsky’s classic: the poverty, crime, and violence that shaped much of everyday life in 19th-century St. Petersburg.

Mar 22, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Jennifer Wilson

Today’s Life and War

Today’s Life and War Today’s Life and War

From above, there are no souls, only bodies, but they are seen as hollow forms, moving the way atoms do in the universe — ​unseen.

Mar 21, 2018 / Dunya Mikhail

Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights

Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights Selma and the Unfulfilled Promise of Civil Rights

The city’s 20th-century history not only marked a high point in the civil-rights movement; it also captures why America needs more than sporadic intervention if it is to uproot the...

Mar 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Elias Rodriques

A New Picture of Karl Marx

A New Picture of Karl Marx A New Picture of Karl Marx

Any movie about Marx raises questions about its means of production. But maybe it’s time for a good, relatively mainstream film about anticapitalists.

Mar 19, 2018 / Annie Julia Wyman

Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm Deserves a Great Big Statue Honoring Her in the Capitol Shirley Chisholm Deserves a Great Big Statue Honoring Her in the Capitol

Kamala Harris and Yvette Clarke have a bill that would do just that.

Mar 9, 2018 / John Nichols

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