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A sordid history to remember and the horrific prospects of a vice president's embrace of Germany's neo-Nazi party.

Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.

Computer gremlins have interrupted production of this week's. This Week in People's History. With any luck, all will be back to normal next week.

Many in Washington bristled at the public’s failure to register how strong the economy was during the Biden Administration but were they relying on flawed statistics? Unemployment was higher, wages lower, growth less robust than was claimed.

Vance's Munich speech was a call to arms for the populist right to be able to seize power in Europe, and a promise that the “new sheriff in town” would help them to do so.

The rich tradition of Black Marxist thought — one that includes W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Frantz Fanon, among many others — emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and its destructiveness for all workers.

In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.

Take the “One Thousand Photos — One Thousand Shares” pledge at ActionNetwork.org, share it widely, and support the union activists leading the fight to transform garment supply chains.

President has begun slashing federal workforce while hobbling labor watchdogs NLRB and EEOC

U.S. history is not a steady march toward greater equality, democracy and individual rights, these liberal values compete with an alternative set of illiberal values that hold that citizenship should be limited by race, ethnicity, gender and class.