On Aug. 22, President Donald Trump halted construction of the massive offshore wind farm Revolution Wind, located off the coast of Rhode Island. Citing an executive order by Trump aimed to slow the ...
How has the idea of revolution changed? A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept. The storming of the Bastille. Here’s a puzzle: Must revolution always ...
This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...
It was telling that the last pop culture sensation to tackle the American Revolution—the 2015 musical Hamilton—felt that the best way to make the nation’s founding legible to modern audiences was to ...
In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...
The World Socialist Web Site is publishing here Chapter 10 of Leon Trotsky’s work “The Permanent Revolution,” written in 1929. We publish this chapter as a supplementary text to the lecture given by ...
Over the Christmas holidays, a time when one quite often meets people whom one hasn’t seen for a while, I mentioned to two friends that I was working on a book for young people about what life was ...