Economic, Political Stakes Loom as US Shutdown Threat Rises

The White House’s threat to leverage an Oct. 1 government shutdown to conduct mass firings of federal employees — and ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Penn History Department launches political history concentration for undergraduate majors

The Penn Department of History is located in College Hall. Credit: Jean Park Penn’s History Department is adding a new political history concentration, giving students the opportunity to explore the ...
Jacobin on MSN

Perry Anderson Writes Marxist History on the Grandest Scale

The British historian and New Left Review editor Perry Anderson set out to trace the history of European class societies from ...
The New York Times

The Political Rage of Left-Behind Regions

There were local elections in several German states a few days ago, and the results — a strong showing by the Alternative for Germany or AfD, a right-wing extremist party — were shocking but not ...