Dorothea Lange died on this day in 1965. Her photographs captured the brutality of the Great Depression and the inhumanity of the Japanese internment.

Socialist writer Charles Fourier died on this day 188 years ago. Nearly two centuries later, his insightful, outlandish, yet oddly practical ideas still seem shockingly modern.

For author Patricia Nilsson, “online culture runs on the onanistic logic of porn.” The porn industry is not just a beneficiary of the internet, but has deeply shaped a platform economy based on monopolizing users’ attention.

Despite heavy opposition, United UAW candidates are winning in the union’s internal elections by overwhelming margins, suggesting widespread membership support for President Shawn Fain’s aggressive approach to bargaining and organizing.

From an adolescence spent in Berlin during the Nazis’ rise to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Eric Hobsbawm lived through the Left's greatest hopes and its worst defeats, and he never stopped asking what was still possible.

Under Abdul El-Sayed’s current Medicare for All proposal, everyone would be enrolled in the public plan for free, but they would also be allowed to buy duplicative private plans. Virtually nobody is going to buy such duplicative insurance.

We talked to economist Howard Botwinick about Anwar Shaikh's influence on his thinking, why competition divides the working class, and what that means for union strategy and the enduring potential of classwide solidarity.

A critic of Elon Musk and Israel, Pedro Sánchez takes stronger moral stances than most social democrats. But his government has done little to meaningfully shift power in Spanish society and may pay the price for it in next month’s snap elections.

Moral debates about sex work often overlook the wider effect of online porn in shaping our digital existence. More than just a corner of the internet, it has profoundly shaped how platforms keep our attention, and how we present ourselves online.

The message from United Auto Workers members in their recent internal elections, in which President Shawn Fain and his slate are poised to win big, is clear, argues former Fain Chief of Staff Chris Brooks: they want their union to keep fighting.

Eric Hobsbawm was in Berlin when Adolf Hitler took power, in Paris at the Popular Front’s peak, and in the Communist Party when it all came down. Emile Chabal’s new biography follows a historian who always asked what remained possible after defeat.

In studying with Anwar Shaikh, economist Howard Botwinick learned that Karl Marx’s account of capitalist competition is far richer than his critics assumed. That insight, Botwinick argues in an interview, offers the working class a road map to victory.

Some commentators are claiming that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed once supported Medicare for All and now merely backs a “public option.” Matt Bruenig explains why this is not true.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani demands the Trump administration remove ICE from New York City and reiterates his call to abolish the agency.

Pedro Sánchez’s coalition won reelection in 2023 based on a real record of measures to rein in the cost of living. Pulling off the same trick now may be much harder, after three years of institutional inertia.

Revolutionary Che Guevara was executed on this day in 1967. “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice than you are a comrade of mine.”

More and more, particularly in liberal democracies, we are seeing immigration policies leveraged as a way to punish and censor speech.

In 2014, DSA had a membership of 6,500 with a median age of 68. The organization has experienced astronomical growth since the first Bernie Sanders campaign. The challenge of rooting itself in the American working class remains.

A key Trump-allied strategist in Latin America’s rightward lurch was arrested in Bolivia for allegedly ordering a hit on his pregnant girlfriend. When officials began investigating him for potential drug ties, Bolivia arrested its own prosecutors.

While criticizing capitalism, Karl Marx understood that the recognition people get for their productive contributions to society was essential to their flourishing.