Expanding the Slaveocracy
Historians Eric Foner and Matt Karp on the international ambitions of the US slaveholding class — and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.
39 Article(s) by: Matt Karp
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Matt Karp is an associate professor of history at Princeton University and a Jacobin contributing editor.
When the South Held the Keys
The slaveholding class defeated in the Civil War were no ragtag band of sectionalists — they were the masters of the US state.
Fairfax County, USA
Hillary Clinton won rich suburbs in record numbers. But her campaign failed to mobilize workers of all races.
The Popular Populist
Bernie Sanders is the most-liked politician in the United States. What does that mean for the future of left politics here?
What Bernie Supporters Want
The Sanders campaign has been driven by class politics, not white male angst.
What Happened in New York
Four points on last week's New York Democratic primary.
Against Fortress Liberalism
For forty years, liberals have accepted defeat and called it "incremental progress." Bernie Sanders offers a different way forward.
Who Can Beat Trump?
The numbers don't lie: Bernie Sanders would be a formidable general election candidate.
A Bernie Upset?
Can Bernie Sanders win the delegate battle? It won’t be easy — but here’s one way it could happen.
Why Bernie Can Win
The pundits are wrong. Bernie Sanders is the most electable candidate this November.
The Clinton Spin
Make no mistake: even a narrow Bernie Sanders victory in today's New Hampshire primary would be an enormous upset.
The War on Bernie Sanders
The Democratic Party elite has launched a virtually unprecedented attack against Bernie Sanders.
Bernie and the Liberals
Whatever the claims of the media, Bernie Sanders's appeal does not seem limited to liberals.
The Bernie Coalition
In Iowa and New Hampshire, Barack Obama won over high-income liberals. Bernie Sanders’s campaign points in a different direction.
Bernie in the Age of Clinton
Seven tidbits from Bernie Sanders’s memoir, Outsider in the White House.
A Second Civil War
Like the abolitionists, Chris Hayes argues, climate activists must mount “a movement of dispossession.”
A Confederacy of Kidnappers
12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era's painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.
Dead White Reds
For today’s beleaguered left, it’s tempting to pine over the past. But the lives of two socialist intellectuals remind us that no one should be too nostalgic for the twentieth century.