Articles on the American Left
Air America: gone and already forgotten
On Tariq Ali's support for John Kerry
The death of the American newspaper
Michael Albert versus Karl Marx
Amber A’Lee Frost and Anna Khachiyan: the two dingbats who bonded with Spiked Online
Michael Ansara's special pleading for Hillary Clinton
How a Bard trustee and billionaire agribusinesman corrupts higher education
Walter Russell Mead: Bard's Thomas Friedman
The growing intimacy between Bard College and the American Military
In response to a Pentagon official (and Bard College graduate)
Bard College professors attack OWS
It takes a professor to get the Occupy Movement really, really wrong
Another Bard College professor proffers bad advice to OWS
Bard College's lumpen bourgeoisie
Erectile dysfunction and a Bard College honorary doctorate
Some animals are more equal than others
The House He Lived In: Conversations with Fred Baker
The Speech that Jack Barnes should have given
Biden's neoliberal transition team
Book party for Wald-LeBlanc book on American Trotskyism
Harry Braverman on early American history
Brownbagging at the Monthly Review
The Boston branch of the SWP shuts down
Paul Buhle's "Images of American Radicalism"
Pete Buttigieg and the $900 bottles of wine
Smedley Butler speaks to the Bonus Army
North Star: a tribute to Peter Camejo
Harold Camping and Jack Barnes
Cancelling a Nation subscription
Craig Carton and the American malaise
Vivek Chibbers' Apolitical Marxism
Vivek Chibber and the turn to the working-classRobert Brenner, Vivek Chibber, and the 'organization question'
Cynthia Cochran memorial meeting
What Alexander Cockburn meant to me
Jeff Cohen's Kerry endorsement
The Communist Party versus Liza Featherstone
The lives of American Communists after Communism
The Communist Party's liberal turn
Conference on American Trotskyism
Cliff Conner's "People's History of Science"
Is the 60s counterculture to blame for today's banksters?
The devolution of Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn and the vicissitudes of old age
How a Russian troll sucker-punched Counterpunch
Sustain CounterPunch and sustain yourself
The conspiracist left and the far right: strange bedfellows on COVID-19
Antibodies and anticapitalists
What Stanford University and Fox News have in common
Reflections on my COVID-19 immunity
COVID-19 and the "Just-in-Time" Supply Chain
The sports bar louts endangering our lives
25 reasons not to vote for Obama
Was the 2012 election really a referendum?
Left Strategy for the 2020 Elections: a critique
The Rebranding of Barack Obama
Progressives for Obama, version 2.0
Obama and the battered voter syndrome
Obama's bromance with Robert Kagan
Frank Marshall Davis's warning to Barack Obama
Michael Denning's "The Cultural Front"
Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin and Abby Hoffman
De Blasio's Karl Marx double-think
Why are the Democrats so okay with losing? Jacobin's road map within the Democratic Party
Democratic Socialism: a Hot Commodity
Another Depression, another Occupation
Genora Dollinger: Child of the Sit-Downs
Open Letter to G. William Domhoff
El Salvador, MS-13, and the war on immigrants
Life and Death at the Epicenter
The Establishment Left shifts gears
Bill Fletcher channels Gus Hall
Stan Goff, Bill Fletcher and the 2-party system
Stan Goff rejects Marxism: a reply
A government of national unity?
Richard Greener: a life in radio
Should the Green Party mollify the Democrats?
Young Marxist intellectuals and the Democratic Party
Hard Crackers 2 Hard Crackers: the Revolutionary Legacy of Noel Ignatiev
The ISO and the Howie Hawkins campaign
Howard Dean and the Iowa Primary
In reply to Henwood, Featherstone and Parenti
The Strange Career of Eugene Genovese
Doug Henwood's Kerry endorsement
Alger Hiss accuser is Alger Hiss Professor
Christopher Hitchens 1949-2011
My days in Houston on assignment with the SWP
Thoughts triggered by ex-ISO'ers seeing the light
Maurice Isserman versus the new SDS
How Jacobin got Henry Wallace wrong
A Jacobin/DSAer's Red Herrings
New Communists? A reply to Jacobin
Ben Norton throws a tantrum at Jacobin magazine
Russell Jacoby versus Eric Lott
Whatever happened to the American left? A reply to Michael Kazin
John Kerry and Langston Hughes
Who says the Koch brothers and Sheldon Adelson wasted their money?
Left Forum 2014 panel on Lenin and democracy
Left Forum 2014 panel on fracking
Left Forum 2014 panel on art and gentrification
Left Forum 2014 panel on post-Chavez Venezuela
Left Forum 2014 panel on registering class
Left Forum 2014 panel on Syriza
Left Forum 2015 panel on South Africa
Left Forum 2015 panel on North Star
Left Forum 2015 panels on Syria
Left Forum 2016: The Truth is Out There
Andrew Levine and the lesser evil
Left in form, right in essence
The Rise of the Leninist Right?
The Winter of Liberal Discontent
Why did liberal Republicans go the way of the dodo?
Caroline Lund memorial meeting
Harry Magdoff Memorial Meeting
What can the left learn from Vito Marcantonio?
Reply to Eric Mann and Ted Glick on supporting Kerry
Letter to Ray Markey on stopping Bush
Countering a tribute to Cormac McCarthy
David McReynolds in the context of American radicalism
Thoughts on the 2006 midterm elections
Comments on Albert Goldman and Felix Morrow
A 1996 meeting for Ralph Nader
Examining the motives of Nader and Camejo
John V. Walsh, Ralph Nader and the right-left alliance
Early Days of the Nation Magazine
Maoism and the Democratic Party
The Nation Magazine's Tainted Liberalism
The Nation Magazine and the 2008 elections
The New Deal, Leon Trotsky, and the bureaucratic state
Reflections on The New Republic shake-up
Preliminary notes on the New Deal
The New York Press: dogshit on the sidewalk
Newsweek: the death of a corpse
John Nichols's socialism and ours
The comeback kid and bipartisan attacks on working people
What's wrong with a primary challenge to Obama?
Barack Obama, Neville Chamberlain and the mythology of appeasement
Obama: I am not a radical or a Bolshevik
Marxists for Obama: a bumpy road ahead
Obama wins over the 'decent left'
Polio, COVID-19, and socialism
Progressives for Obama: still intoxicated
President Obama, Governor Paterson and Ayn Rand
Why Obama would likely lose to McCain
The New Yorker cover cartoon of the Obamas
Chuck Todd interviews Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Encounters with Occupy Wall Street
Alexander Cockburn throws a spitball at Occupy--and misses
The status of the Occupy movement
Disenchantment with Occupy Wall Street
Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle and a new graphic history of SDS
Nancy Pelosi and the horse-trading progressives
Comments on a Phelps-Luce-Brenner article on the Democrats
Donate to Philly Socialists Fund-drive
Thoughts provoked by the Platypus
Politicians, consultants and the class struggle
The political economy of the sell-out
Ratner, Bostein and Gehry: birds of a feather
Going toe-to-toe with Leon Bostein
Adolph Reed: master of Marxism-Clintonism
Adolph Reed Jr., Jacobin, and the George Floyd protests Was Adolph Reed Jr. really cancelled?
Julius Krein and Adolph Reed Jr.
Chris Maisano's class-reductionism apologetics
Misusing German history to scare up votes for Hillary Clinton
Reply to LeBlanc on his comments on my review
Reply to Rick Perlstein on the Democrats
Rick Perlstein accused of plagiarism
Review of Harvey Klehr's "Secret World of American Communism"
Review of Wald-LeBlanc book on American Trotskyism
Right-Left Convergence? Phooey
Corey Robin on the "new socialistss"
Suze Rutolo's "A Freewheelin' Time"
The Twilight of the Political Revolution
The campaign suspension speech Sahders should have given
What does Bernie Sanders mean by political revolution, anyway?
Bernie Sanders and the New Deal
What Bernie Sees in the New Deal
Said Sayrafiezadeh behind the curve
Bernie Sanders funds scumbag Democrats
Bernie Sanders arrives at the Finland Station
Thoughts on a Bernie Sanders campaign
On Bernie Sanders's political revolution
The speech that Bernie Sanders should give but won't
Bernie Sanders pulls his punches
Richard Seymour justifies voting for Bernie Sanders Left-leaning critics of Sanders? Left of Attila the Hun that is
Bernie Sanders and the Rainbow Coalition
When Junius Scales went into industry
Thoughts on the passing of Earl Shorris
George Scialabba collected articles
Socialist Scholars Conference 2003
Bullying in the National Football Leaguel
The American SWP and anti-imperialist struggle
Slavery, capitalism and economic growth: a response to Timothy Shenk
Socialism 2019: the Left at a Crossroads
Donald Trump's enablers at Stanford University
The Demonization of Jill Stein
Jill Stein, The South Front and the lesser evil
Donald Sterling: racist and sexist pig extraordinaire
The redbaiting of Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
A Socialist Party in Our Time?
Peter Dreier, Bhaskar Sunkara, and the Green Party
Bhaskar Sunkara's "The Socialist Manifesto"
Butting in to Bhaskar Sunkara's debate with a Trotskyist
The New Republic climbs aboard the DSA bandwagon
A multiple choice test by the NY Times, answer correctly and you are DSA material
The DSA, Julia Salazar and the future of the left
The speech that Rich Trumka should have given on Oct. 2nd
Salvage Magazine on the Trump fascist threat
Fascism, Trumpism and the left
How can Trump be a fascist when he is for making deals with Russia?
Donald Trump, Project 1619, Howard Zinn, and critical race theory
Donald Trump, fascism, and steel industry realities
Is Donald Trump our Vladimir Putin?
William Blum channels Donald Trump
Donald Trump, the American Vladimir Putin
The University of Virginia fracas
Letter to a Washington Post editor
Two important books on last year's struggle in Wisconsin
Report on October 2nd "One Nation" Washington rally
Is there a connection between Leon Trotsky and Paul Wolfowitz?
Can socialism be advanced by running in the Democratic Primary primaries
Excuses made for voting Democrat (part 1)
Excuses made for voting Democrat (part 2)
Sean Wilentz, Ralph Nader and the early 1960s
Sean Wilentz, Whigs and Democrats
Max Sawicky, Marc Cooper and the late Tookie Williams
Gordon S. Wood on Sean Wilentz
Reflections on the World Socialist Web Site
The Working Families Party in historical context