Do you hang out your washing to dry in the sun and wind? Why do so few people in the US do this nowadays? Are there places where it is illegal?

Why do the United States and Canada commemorate Labor Day on the first Monday in September and not, as in many other countries, on the first of May?

About 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are voting on whether to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union (RWDSU).

These mostly Black workers, who have formed the Alabama Amazon Workers Union, ask sympathizers to sign a petition against the union-busting abuses of Amazon and its super rich owner Jeff Bezos.

In the 1950s there arose the myth of America as a ‘middle-class society.’ How has this myth developed since then? What relation does it have to reality?

Why is Trump reopening the US economy — and forcing Mexico to reopen its economy too — when the pandemic is still on the rise?

Ten nurses have been suspended at Providence St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California for refusing to work without the protection of N95 respirator masks. Are they really in short supply?

What is the point of studying the history of early socialism?

Maybe the question itself is rather pointless. After all, nothing really needs to have a point…

But I do think that there is a special value in studying the early period of socialist history, prior to the Russian Revolution. I say this because the “common sense” among many socialists in that era is quite different from the way of thinking that has prevailed since then. Above all, the understanding of what socialism itself means changed radically in the subsequent years.

The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery in 1865. Or did it? Has slavery ever been abolished?