US History
On the consequences of the Kennedy coverup | By James K....
In the fourth volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Passage of Power, Robert Caro remarks that the Warren Commission was suited to...
Remembering Jean Genet: the United States and Palestine
By Franklin Frederick
" ... because I don't love the oppressed. I love those whom I love, who are always beautiful and sometimes oppressed, but...
Noam Chomsky: “We’re on the Road to a Form of Neofascism”
By C.J. Polychroniou
December 8, 2022
Neoliberalism has reigned supreme as an economic philosophy for nearly half a century. But neoliberal policies have wreaked havoc around...
“Gangsters of Capitalism”: Jonathan Katz on the Parallels Between Jan. 6...
January 26, 2022
We speak to award-winning journalist Jonathan Katz about his new book “Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and...
The True History Behind ‘The Plot Against America’
Philip Roth’s classic novel, newly adapted by HBO, envisions a world in which Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 presidential election
By Meilan Solly
Associate Editor, History
March 16,...
This Was the Worst Slaughter of Native Americans in US History....
The 1863 Bear River Massacre decimated the Northwestern Band of the Shoshones but was overshadowed by the Civil War
By Dana Hedgpeth
The Washington Post
26 September...
New Evidence Implicates CIA, LAPD, FBI and Mafia as Plotters in...
By Jeremy Kuzmarov
September 1, 2021
photo: washingtonpost.com; collage courtesy of Steve Brown
Yet even after over 50 years, high government officials like Vice President Kamala Harris...
Cuban Exile Told Sons He Trained Oswald, JFK’s Accused Assassin, at...
By Nora Gamez Torres / Miami Herald
Oct. 30, 2021
photo: Ricardo Morales, known as "Monkey," second left, and his "cleanup" crew posing with CIA-provided sniper...
The removal of Jefferson’s statue. A shame for America and the...
The removal of Jefferson’s statue is a gift to the political right
By Tom Mackaman
19 October 2021
New York City will remove from City Hall a...
100 years since the Battle of Blair Mountain
By Andy Thompson, Jerry White
9 September 2021
This month marks the 100th anniversary since the end of the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when...