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Hubert Harrison with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William “Big Bill” Haywood, and other leaders of the Paterson Silk Strike. Before it was defeated, Harrison had denounced the Socialist Party’s lackluster response to the strike and the IWW because he felt the silk workers needed all the financial, political, and moral support that they could muster.

Hubert Harrison’s Brand of Black Radicalism Hubert Harrison’s Brand of Black Radicalism

In this interview with Brian Kwoba, “The Nation” talks with the author about his new book on the legacy of a little-known but influential activist.

Aug 19, 2026 / Q&A / Peter Cole

Participants from a coalition of voting rights groups march over the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on May 16, 2026, in a protest following the Supreme Court decision “Louisiana v. Callais.”

Attacks on Black Citizenship Are Attacks on Democracy Attacks on Black Citizenship Are Attacks on Democracy

Too often, Democrats reinforce Republicans’ lie that the language of racial justice is the problem—instead of the injustices the language is trying to name.

Aug 18, 2026 / Column / Kali Holloway

Howard Zinn speaks into a microphone during the 2009 Sundance Music Festival

Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again

Zinn saw firsthand what happened when liberals did more to fight the left than the right—they sabotaged their own power.

Aug 4, 2026 / Dave Zirin

Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in the mid-1920s.

What Makes American Architecture American? What Makes American Architecture American?

It’s never been afraid to play fast and loose and big.

Jun 30, 2026 / Feature / Kate Wagner

The labor-activist group Union Now was founded with support from Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.

How to Win the Next 250 Years for the Working Class How to Win the Next 250 Years for the Working Class

It begins with building back a strong union movement
rooted in deep solidarity.

Jun 30, 2026 / Feature / Sara Nelson

The founding father included a recipe for abortions in The American Instructor, his 1748 reprint of a popular British textbook.

Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition Abortion Has Always Been an American Tradition

More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction.

Jun 29, 2026 / Feature / Regina Mahone

The heirs of the Boston Tea Partiers are fighting to block data-center projects.

We Were Founded on Anti-Monopoly Principles We Were Founded on Anti-Monopoly Principles

The premises of the American democratic vision must be applied to the economy if we are to be free in all alreas of life.

Jun 29, 2026 / Feature / Zephyr Teachout

A Bicentennial celebration on July 4, 1976, in San Francisco. The author had arrived in the US the year before as a refugee.

American Dream, American Nightmare American Dream, American Nightmare

This nation’s DNA is a double helix of beauty and brutality.

Jun 26, 2026 / Feature / Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Activism, it turns out, is the antidote to despair,” writes Jane Fonda, seen here at an anti-Vietnam War protest in 1970.

Jane Fonda: My Life of Protest Jane Fonda: My Life of Protest

What I’ve learned about America from six decades in the struggle.

Jun 26, 2026 / Feature / Jane Fonda

From the late 19th century to 1920, there were at least 100,000 Syrian immigrants who came to the United States.

Arab Americans Have Always Been Here Arab Americans Have Always Been Here

The story of my people, and my country.

Jun 25, 2026 / Feature / James Zogby

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