Socialism isn’t about taking away freedom or punishing success. It’s about ensuring fairness, opportunity, and dignity for ...

Communism and socialism are political and economic systems that are historically related but often confused with each other.

During the Cold War, the term “socialism” for many Americans was synonymous with “communism,” which meant the Soviet Union, a.k.a. the enemy. Today, things are different, explains Samuel Arnold ’01, ...

Socialism has an abysmal record in the twentieth and twenty-first century, its effects include economic destruction, failure, and misery — Venezuela being the latest in a long line of wretched ...

History is filled with political movements born from noble promises. Few have been more appealing in theory than socialism.

It is technically correct to say that communism is one type of socialism, but this obscures the fact the democratic socialists and communists are often at odds when it comes to articulating their ...

The leftist Democratic Socialists of America, which helped congressional star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get elected in 2018, looks to be a big political player again in New York City’s 2021 municipal ...

As someone who escaped socialism to find opportunity in a nation built on centuries of capitalist principles, I find it troubling to see growing support for socialism among people who have never ...