Nancy MacLean tells the story of the Populist movement of the 1890s--when it briefly challenged the hold of white supremacy in the U.S. South. IT WAS an event without precedent in the South. On a few ...

THE NORTHERN Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Southeastern Montana lies on one of the richest coal deposits in North America. The Northern Cheyenne are a nation of a little over 4,000 people. The ...

At the time of the Socialist Party's greatest electoral success in 1912, the party was internally divided. Brian Erway explains the issues behind the growing left-right split in the SP--differences ...

Since its national conference in January, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain, the country's largest revolutionary organization, has been shaken by the most severe crisis in its history, ...

HE EARNED the nickname of "Lenin of Harlem" in his early years, but ended his life as a determined anti-communist. He was known as "Mr. Black Labor," but always protected his union presidency, even ...

Bloomberg Businessweek can't hide its racism--not after putting caricatures of African Americans on a cover illustration about the housing market. Leela Yellesetty explains. The illustration echoes ...

Joe Allen reviews a new book that provides a history of the right-wing organizing in Dallas that set the stage for the Kennedy assassination in November 1963. FOR MANY Americans of a certain ...

GERMANY IS now passing through one of those great historic hours upon which the fate of the German people, the fate of Europe, and in significant measure the fate of all humanity, will depend for ...

From a transcontinental speech by Glenn Greenwald to the discussions at dozens of workshops, the Socialism 2013 conference inspired and educated, reports Alan Maass. THE ANNUAL Socialism conference ...

Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, shows how the military's push to deploy personnel, despite their physical or mental health, goes well ...

STANLEY NELSON'S new documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard to the Revolution is a bracing examination of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Given that we are ...

DESPITE THEIR nonstop coverage, nearly all of the media accounts of the wildfires in Southern California missed the deeper causes of the catastrophe--years of destructive land development driven by ...