Music Around the World: Ripple

In honor of the Grateful Dead's 50th anniversary, Playing for Change reprises the Grateful Dead's 1970 classic, "Ripple."

Daily Fantasy Sports

Daily fantasy sports sites claim they are not gambling enterprises, but they seem awfully…gamblish. If only their ads were more truthful.

Bernie Sanders: How I See Democratic Socialism

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visits Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. to share his vision for a United States more equal, more just and more prosperous through democratic socialism.

Bernie Defines Socialism

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Evoking Franklin Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr., the Vermont senator bridged the aspirations of New Deal liberalism with the democratic socialist tradition.

Eden in Pilsen

Philip C. Kolin Finishing Line Press
At the turn of the 20th Century Czech immigrants flocked to the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen on the city's near west side attracted there by the offer of jobs. Mississippi-based poet Philip C. Kolin depicts their hopes and realities in a newly-published chapbook.

Doris Lessing's MI5 File: Was She a Threat to the State?

Lara Feigel The Guardian
The security services set out to ensnare Lessing. But they weren't sure where she lived, why she went to Communist party meetings or even whether her nickname was Tigger or Trigger. M15 spied on Doris Lessing for 20 years, declassified documents reveal. Lara Feigel interrogates the secret archives.

What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees on the Eve of World War II

Ishaan Tharoor The Washington Post
1938-five years after Hitler came to power, after the beginning of the "Final Solution", Jewish refugees were denied entry into the United States. Then it was anti-Semitism and fear of European radicals and communists; today it is anti-Muslim hysteria. Then the U.S. closed its' eyes to the Holocaust; today GOP governors and congressmen are closing the borders while over 250,000 have died in Syria, there are over 3 million refugees and 6.5 million are internally displaced