history

As U.S. empire falters, people of Afghanistan pay the price

August 16, 2021 By C.J. Atkins

The U.S. attempt to conquer and control Afghanistan was doomed from the start.

A real coup couldn’t happen here…could it?

August 16, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Yes, it could and it almost did, not once, but at least three times.

History as upheaval and progress enters stage with novelist Walter Scott

August 13, 2021 By Jenny Farrell

Born 250 years ago, Walter Scott showed another kind of historical novel is possible from the ones we see today.

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.

Thousands of Indigenous children perished in ‘genocide boarding schools’

August 12, 2021 By Albert Bender

Hunger. Starvation. Beatings. Ill-clothed in winter. Forbidden to speak their Native tongues. Sexual predators roaming the dormitory halls. Such was the lot of thousands of Indigenous children in the Indian boarding school era.