Chris Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled By Joe Biden May 4, 2021 What is exceptional about America is its culture of sadism. Read more →
The Argument for a Maximum Wage October 27, 2020 Could British levels of support for an income cap ever take root in the U.S.? Sam Pizzigati says the idea isn’t as un-American as it may seem. Read more →
A Summer of Protest, Unemployment & Presidential Politics – Welcome to 1932 July 3, 2020 In 1932, as in 2020, the nation experienced an explosion of civil unrest on the eve of a presidential election, writes James N. Gregory. Read more →
COVID-19: FDR’s Polio Crusade & Leadership Amid Crisis May 21, 2020 Thomas Doherty offers a reminder of the lesser-known battle that FDR waged, in public and in private. Read more →
Is the DNC Repeating History in Derailing a Socialist Candidate? March 20, 2020 When FDR died in 1945, Truman took over as president. Had it been Henry Wallace, history may have taken a much different course, writes Marjorie Cohn. Read more →
The Greening of the New Deal November 7, 2019 Charges that the Green New Deal will crash the budget and serve as an antechamber to socialism are just as bogus as similar arguments against its Depression-era predecessor, writes Steve Fraser. Read more →