In 1901, the Amsterdam city government started to replace privately owned slums with cooperatively run housing. The project attracted many innovative designers, but its aesthetic function didn’t always suit the needs of the new homes’ inhabitants.
During the Cold War, the CIA and State Department understood that there is power in a union. After the successful purges of leftists from unions, US labor leaders were enlisted by government officials to join in their imperialist operations across the world.
Wall Street–backed charity funds provide ultrawealthy donors with massive charitable tax breaks — yet operate without any requirement to ever distribute the money to working charities.
Of all the internal controversies Occupy generated, the one over whether the movement should adopt specific demands may have been the most significant.
In Detroit charter schools, mismanagement and opportunistic “education entrepreneurs" thrive.
We will not go into the socialist city blindly, but with lessons from a century of experiments.
Abortion opponents are at the forefront of a wider effort to punish poor women and attack social services.
How Chicago elites imported charters, closed neighborhood schools, and snuffed out creativity.
The Rio Olympics start in one month — they won't be the first games to spark popular protest.
Private charity will never cure capitalism's ills. Only working-class organizations can do that.
How a town dominated by oil interests gave birth to one of the most successful left-wing political insurgencies in the country.
Betsy DeVos has spent a fortune to influence education policy. If she is confirmed as education secretary, for the first time, she can do it for free.
To preserve and expand public education, educators and parents will have to fight not only free market zealots like Betsy DeVos, but Democrats like Dwight Evans.
The transformation of community organizing into a “profession” is a barrier to radical political change.
Some CEOs are endorsing Medicare for All. For socialists, that could be a trap.
The story of the British National Health Service, one of the twentieth century’s great working-class achievements.
The rise of psychiatry was funded by America’s Gilded Age industrialists. Their aim: to cast society’s ills as problems of individual "mental health."