The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American Revolution, no one was more responsible for setting capitalism’s ...

Is America a democracy? Reactionaries, such as the activist Charlie Kirk and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, say it is not, never was, and shouldn’t be. They justify the antidemocratic features of the ...

There has been much talk about democracy lately. When we think about democracy’s origins, we automatically point to our 18th-century founding fathers. Yet more than a century before, Adriaen van der ...

Charles Barnes marches through downtown St. Louis carrying an American flag during the 'No Kings' protest on Saturday, June 15, 2025. Demonstrators made their way through downtown demanding the ...

The following is a more-or-less verbatim transcript of a conversation I overheard between two people in line to vote. I record it here for future historians who may want to know how, exactly, ...

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (WANE) — The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program and Indiana Humanities are teaming up to bring the traveling exhibition, “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America,” to ...

We are living in an authoritarian state. It didn’t feel that way this morning, when I took my dog for his usual walk in the park and dew from the grass glittered on my boots in the rising sunlight. It ...

Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival, by Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio. Westview Press, 285 pages, $25.00. In Comeback Cities, Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio make the case ...

I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while, and a conversation in the Domestic Consequences threat finally inspired me to write it up. My question is, what do you think was the point of no return ...

Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and U.S. politics by working inside and outside of the party by working to elect empowered progressives and by ...