The story of the Congressional Black Caucus reflects the class contradictions of black politics in the post–civil rights era. Illustration by Trevor Davis. It was a bright spot in a depressing decade ...
Jacobin's documentary, The Ecuadorian Candidate, chronicled the young leftist economist Andrés Arauz as he faced right-wing opposition and embarked on a journey to become the next president of Ecuador ...
Fifty years after the publication of The Power Broker, the legacy of urban planner Robert Moses is ripe for revisiting. (CBS Photo Archive / Getty Images) At the end of his 2019 memoir, Working, ...
Juliana DeVaan is a PhD candidate in US history at Columbia University, where she studies 20th-century cultural and intellectual history, focusing on dance and performance.
The liberal attempt to counter Rush Limbaugh on the airwaves was too little, too late. Illustration by Trevor Davis. The national talk-radio network Air America was founded on a can’t-miss premise: ...