The president came up with a bizarre new moniker on Friday.

Welcome, Comrade Trump?

Isn’t this called ... communism?

They were a disaster when Harry Truman forced them on federal workers—but at least he demanded loyalty to the United States, not to the president himself.

Tracing the leftist icon’s influence on the history of the United States

“Hons and Rebels” might easily be mistaken for a freewheeling memoir of aristocratic life. It’s also a study of intense ideological conflict in a family.

Where some celebrated the triumph of liberal capitalism in the 1990s, Hobsbawm saw a failed dream.

Donald Trump’s strongman image is a plus for many voters.

In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.

The Russian president’s invasion of Ukraine is part of his broader mission to undo the late Soviet premier’s entire legacy.

No one understood political battle lines better than a Communist politician from Sardinia.

Lea Ypi’s memoir recounts Albania’s troubled transition to democracy.

The last decade’s cycle of uprisings and protests has demonstrated more than a confrontation with white supremacy; it has been the most explosive articulation of a crisis in Black politics.

An elaborate secret life was a necessity for children’s author Louise Fitzhugh.

Politicians love to bluster about saving “our democracy”—without acknowledging all the ways it’s broken.

In the 1950s, the residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the dangers of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.

What the bureau’s decades-long surveillance of the international celebrity reveals about the U.S. government’s Cold War pathologies

From Indonesia to Brazil, the United States fostered a global network of brutal repression in the name of anti-communism.

Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.

The U.S. has to rethink its role in an era of ecological disaster.