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Reader Comments: Mainstream Press Covers DSA and Elections; The ‘Red Scare’: Then and Now; Todd Blanche and The Art of the Steal; Dr. Fauci;; New Howard Zinn Biography; Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes Against War, Genocide

Hiroshima is a reminder that nuclear weapons have one purpose, and one purpose only: to cause death and destruction on a colossal scale.

As a new Zinn biography makes clear, A People’s History of the United States arose from a life of deep and admirable commitment. Read it, and you will be shocked and outraged, and learn. But as historical analysis, it has real flaws.

Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demand

We speak to Dave Zirin, author at The Nation, about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States.

Once again, people have lost their lives at Europe’s border, and once again, the real question remains unanswered.

The Democratic establishment’s hysteria over the Democratic Socialists of America’s organizing methods has it exactly backward: the Democratic Party has almost no ability to democratically organize voters, while DSA is reviving grassroots campaigning

A slate of union-backed working-class Democratic candidates is running on an economic-populist platform in swing districts. If the Blue Collar Brigade proves successful, their strategy could set a precedent for winning working-class votes.

We joined a recent bus tour of 30 judges, lawyers and advocates fighting not for any partisan aim, but for the rule of law itself

Reagan Shows the Union Who’s Boss (1981), On Vacation and Asleep at the Switch in Texas (2001), The Sniper Known as ‘Lady Death’ (1941), Police Brutality Gets an Official Work-Over (1931}, Taking a Baby Step Down the Slippery Slope (1961)