Debs ran twice for president against the man who put the "Teddy" in "Teddy Bear," in 1904 and again in 1912 when Roosevelt ran on the Bull Moose Party ticket. (Good party name or best party name?)I...

Probably the most famous Socialist in America during the early 20th century—besides Debs himself—was the writer Upton Sinclair. Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, dealt with the lives of meat-packin...

A fact you probably know: in 1967, twenty-five-year-old Muhammad Ali was the heavyweight champion of the world. And he was also the heavyweight champion of trash-talking.At the peak of his fame and...

The leader of Russia's Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin was the world's most famous Socialist while Debs was opposing World War I and going to jail for his speeches that urged workers to see the war as...