Great Depression

Election Day 2020 should have mimicked 1932. What went wrong?

August 13, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg And John Wojcik

While a broad coalition beat back GOP control in several branches of government last year, progressive majorities don’t match the ones we had in 1932.

On anniversary of Great Depression, 25 million collecting unemployment

October 29, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Nine decades after the first Great Depression started, we are now in the midst of another, with a president who has no plan to get us out of it.

Coronavirus reveals same contradictions as Great Depression: Will we learn this time?

June 5, 2020 By Tim Libretti

Products go to waste, while many go hungry. Millions unemployed, while Wall Street soars. Have we learned the lessons of the Great Depression?

Welcome to Trumpville

June 5, 2020 By Greg Kearney

A cartoon from Greg Kearney.

Growing up as a communist kid in the 1930s

September 23, 2019 By Noyma Appelbaum

I didn't always understand the nuances of the political arguments advanced at the big gatherings, but I always felt comfortable in the warmth of a movement that had as its professed goals brotherhood of peoples and...