An immigrant to the United States with a green card walks into his apartment building. Homeland Security agents enter, ...

Every ruling power tells itself stories to justify its rule. Nobody is the villain in their own history. Professed good intentions and humane principles are a constant. Even Heinrich Himmler, in ...

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When Elon Musk called Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time” on Joe Rogan’s podcast on February 28, he was, wittingly or not, echoing a long line of conservative critics. Over the last ...

The fight against global poverty was once all the rage. From the 1950s to the 1980s, when the Global South’s exploding populations desperately searched for jobs and food, everybody seemed to look for ...

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss. How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the ...

Stephen Kantrowitz is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of More Than ...