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.

Can we salvage an egalitarian vision from the ruins of Labor Zionism?

This year's Objectivist Conference revealed that her cult of hyper-capitalism has a major recruiting problem: All the young people want to be socialists!

Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.

Eric Hobsbawm’s awkward embrace of the Establishment

The leaders facing off in the U.S.-China trade war are obsessed with prestige.

It's not as dangerous as the country's right-wing violence. But a romantic history of resistance has led to a strange culture of normalizing anarchist bombings.

Sixty years to the day after the Cuban Revolution transformed the right-left struggle in Latin America, far-right Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil's president.

“1983” imagines a terrifying alternate reality, but ignores the real dangers that Poland faces today.

Fifty years on, the Czech philosophers of the Prague Spring have much to offer the current moment.

How Hollywood tried to fight fascism and ended up blacklisting suspected Communists.

The partisan world of Pablo Neruda

Why have post-Soviet countries embraced populism and nostalgia?

Was the October revolution bound to lead to terror? China Miéville's "October" and Tariq Ali's "The Dilemmas of Lenin" reconsider the history.

Trump's alt-right speech in Poland redefined the West in nativist terms, eschewing democratic idealism in favor of "blood and soil" nationalism.