Republicans at their convention have used terms including “communist,” “socialist,” “Marxist” and “Bolshevik” to describe Democrats and their policies. The words have specific historical meanings and ...

In the 1930s, the Communist Party of the United States of America boasted nearly 100,000 members. Today, its few thousand remaining adherents include two full-time employees and a few splinter groups ...

It seems we’re on the verge of another Red Scare in the United States, so long as it’s a winning political message for Republicans. President Donald Trump has been going on the offensive against what ...

In June, New York Democrats chose democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani over former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a surprising mayoral primary upset — the latest sign that socialism is gaining mainstream ...

The dramatic collapse of communist regimes worldwide in the late 1980s and early 1990s leaves the impression of a failed system that got virtually nothing right. However, communism did advance some of ...

In 2024, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1264, “requiring instruction in public schools on the history of communism,” into law. While some Americans may consider such a law superfluous, I ...

Florida could soon be teaching students about the “dangers and evils of communism” under proposed new academic standards that some argue amount to “propaganda” and wrongly aim to rehabilitate the ...

Democratic socialists are gaining popularity. Is it the same thing as communism and marxism? Not quite. Here is what the DSA advocates for.