The recent fight over the speakership proved the point yet again: Today’s Republican Party is driven by egos and power rivalries, not ideas. The GOP once had ideas—lots of them. The problem was that they were unpopular and bad.

Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.

Democrats focus on "kitchen-table issues" to avoid being tarnished as overzealous liberals.

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His underrated career as ideological warrior