The Bush administration’s war on terror meted out unthinkable violence in the Middle East while imposing an atmosphere of repression and nativism at home. It was the perfectly malignant petri dish for helping produce Donald Trump.
Famed socialist Victor Grossman on why Henry Wallace’s 1948 Progressive Party campaign mattered.
Yemen had the longest and deepest Arab Spring — why did the country collapse into civil war?
What do you get when you cross big-money politics and tepid progressive positions? A look back at the career of Nancy Pelosi, who’s now poised to retake the House Speaker post.
The United States has long danced with dictators in Central America. US support for Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández is no different.
On Bastille Day 1889, militants from around the world met in Paris to declare an international union of socialist parties. The Second International promised to spread the spirit of the revolution across borders, only itself to fall victim to nationalist passions.
Four decades since the passing of Spain's democratic Constitution, the "regime of '78" is sharply criticized by the Left and the Catalan independence movements. Yet former prime minister Felipe González still defends it.
The US brags about its commitment to democracy. But its interventions have yielded death and despotism for the Middle East.
Pushed by leftist activists and legislators like Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic Party is finally having it over Israel. It's a long-overdue step toward shifting US foreign policy and challenging Israel's occupation.
Bernie Sanders and AOC have helped to transform our domestic politics. But in order for those politics to stick, we also need to confront US imperialism and the power of multinational corporations.
David Ranney was part of the wave of US revolutionaries who went into factories in the 1970s to organize workers. In an interview, he discusses his new book about those explosive years — and the pitched battles his coworkers waged against both their corrupt union and the company.
You can't understand the North Korean conflict without understanding the history of US imperialism.
The "alt-right" and Israeli settlers have a shared fervor for ethno-nationalism, Islamophobia, and racism.
The Swedish Dockworkers Union has announced plans for indefinite strike action. The future of independent, left-wing, rank-and-file trade unionism in Sweden hangs in the balance.
Whatever the media depiction, Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign rally was attended by large numbers of women and people of color. We talked to some of them about why they support Bernie.
The FBI has historically served as a political police force, tasked not just with monitoring dissent but actively destroying it. Nowhere is that clearer than in their infiltration of the Left in the 1960s and ’70s.
Million-strong protests in Algeria have forced President Bouteflika to call off plans to stand for a fifth term. Yet powerful elites are working to maintain their grip on the transition.
Tory Brexiteers’ talk of a “global Britain” is a mere fantasy of returning to the glory days of empire. But even left-wing Remainers are pushing the case to maintain British military supremacy — and using it as a stick to beat Jeremy Corbyn.
Two-state proponents argue that comprehensive peace is only possible with deeper American involvement in the process. They couldn't be more wrong.
The battle between the US and China over global hegemony has moved to the technological arena. But what we really need is a democratic digital commons.