Why Everything Is So Unaffordable
Zohran Mamdani, who identifies as a Democratic Socialist, recently won the Democratic Party nomination for Mayor by campaigning on the need to make.
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Trump’s Policies are Killing his Voters
Coal Country is MAGA Country. In the coal producing regions of Appalachia, Donald Trump received almost three-fourth of the votes in each of.
- by Alan Singer
- July 9, 2025
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Zohran Mamdani and the History of Municipal Socialism
The stunning victory of self-identified “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s Democratic Party primary has sent a shock wave through the.
- by Shelton Stromquist
- June 30, 2025
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Trump, Historians, and the Lessons of U.S. Tariff History
In his recent executive order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump criticized historians for “replacing objective facts with.
- by Elizabeth McKillen
- May 1, 2025
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Chicago Teachers Union is Model for American Labor
“When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;Yet what force on earth.
- by Alan Singer
- April 22, 2025
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New Book Interviews
Sean Griffin on The Root and The Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860
Sean Griffin, The Root and the Branch (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024)The Root and the Branch: Working Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860 conveys.
- by Rosemary Feurer
- April 9, 2025
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Did your professor make you uncomfortable? There’s a law for that!
Lisa Phillips, Indiana State University, analyzes Indiana’s new law, SEA 202. The law, due to go into effect in June calls DEI (Diversity,.
- by Lisa Philips
- March 15, 2024
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Ahmed White on Under the Iron Heel
Ahmed White recently published Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. It takes a closer look at.
- by Randi Storch
- March 15, 2023
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The Worlds of American Communism: An Interview with Author Joshua Morris
Joshua Morris has published The Many Worlds of American Communism in September. Morris completed his Ph.D. at Wayne State University and teaches at.
- by Randi Storch
- December 13, 2022
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The Role of Independent Working-class Political Action
This is the fourth and final contribution to our symposium on Tom Alter’s new book, Toward a Cooperative Commonwealth: The Transplanted Roots of.
- by Tom Alter
- September 26, 2022