Socialism

The fiction of Anzia Yezierska captures the perennial tension between personal ambition and the obligations of care.

The renowned Black scholar Adolph Reed opposes the politics of anti-racism, describing it as a cover for capitalism.

This summer, India Walton looked likely to become the first Black woman to lead Buffalo, and the first socialist mayor of any major American city in decades. Then the sitting Democratic mayor launched a campaign to defeat her.

“Kids skip his house, because he just gives out coal,” one neighbor said.

The war of the gowns is on in Washington.

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.

The senator on the protests, his phone calls with Joe Biden, and when to compromise.

Once again, reality is catching up with the author’s instinct for prognostication.

Sanders’s Presidential campaign ultimately foundered, but the egalitarian agenda he promoted is more relevant than ever.

The historian Michael Kazin on whether the Vermont senator’s rise in a time of political upheaval is less shocking than people think.

The former Colorado governor is at odds with the implied passivity of programs such as Medicare for All and employment guarantees.

The starkest apparent point of contrast between the two Presidential candidates lies in how they describe themselves ideologically.

There is a direct link from the Wall Street bailout to the Presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.

Among both Democrats and Republicans, the term conjures dramatically different images, from decency to social decay—and the 2020 Presidential election may hinge upon its interpretation.

The Netflix series is thoughtfully trashy, a “Lord of the Flies” made more in the image of “Riverdale,” with an unabashed horniness for sex, murder, and supernatural occurrences.

At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, setting the table for a Third Red Scare was the main idea.

Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one.

A new book illustrates how it might be possible for a woman in a socialist society to have an entirely different relationship to something as fundamental as sex or health.