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Eugene Dardenne

Making science serve the people

The experiences of an organization that took on racist and reactionary pseudoscience 40 years ago hold lessons for us today.

April 19, 2017
Ronald and Nancy Reagan
Elizabeth Schulte

Loveable dingbats or hateful warmongers?

All the mythmaking in the world following the death of Nancy Reagan isn't going to disguise the bigotry and reaction of the Reagan years.

March 10, 2016
Scott McLemee

The filth and the Feds

Witch hunts against minorities and activists based on their sexual relationships was all in a day's work for J. Edgar Hoover.

December 15, 2014
Lyndon Johnson giving the State of the Union address in which he announced the War on Poverty
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Who won and who lost in the War on Poverty?

The 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson's declaration of a "War on Poverty" has reignited a debate about the persistence of inequality.

February 4, 2014
Obituary: Sal Castro

Their heads held high

An inspirational teacher-activist who encouraged Chicano students to organize against education inequity died on April 15.

May 2, 2013
Michele Bollinger and Dao X. Tran

Revolutionary changemakers

Excerpts from a "people's history" for students about this country's changemakers, like Tom Paine and Helen Keller.

December 4, 2012
Jason Netek

The myth of the “conservative revolution”

The Tea Party's appropriation of the rhetoric and imagery of the American Revolution is especially infuriating.

December 14, 2011
Annie Levin

Federal Bureau of Intimidation

The FBI has a long and sordid history of harassment, infiltration and repression of political activists, radicals and socialists.

October 4, 2010
Thomas Paine
Mike Marqusee

Propagandist of the American Revolution

Thomas Paine, who inspired and guided revolutions in North America and France, died in virtual obscurity 200 years ago.

June 11, 2009
Todd Chretien

Specialists in coups and killing

In light of the tendency of some liberals to identify Bush's critics within the CIA as the "good guys," it's worth recalling the agency's real history.

January 18, 2008