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During the Civil War, the Lincoln administration demonstrated that a progressive agenda and effective anti-inflationary measures could overlap.

Hurricane Fiona hit the island as only a Category 1 storm. But thanks to bad management, the electrical grid immediately collapsed.

While unionization in the service industry is increasingly in the news today, it is important to recognize that this is not a new development.

Lincoln's wartime governance had dire, and longstanding, economic consequences.

Although most enslaved people worked in the fields, captive workers with strong swimming and diving skills were also exploited by plantation owners.

Murdered during the 1929 Loray Mill strike, Ella May Wiggins became a working-class martyr—and a symbol of labor’s fight to democratize the anti-union South.

How new student loan programs turned students into consumers — and ignited a competition among universities that left them drowning in debt.

An excerpt from "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism."

The electricity industry knew about the dangers of climate change 40 years ago. It denied them anyway.

How to understand Adam Smith’s politics.

It exposes their failed mortgage debt relief policies after the Great Recession.

Ash derided women’s liberation as “that foolishness” – but her success story is very feminist.

Masks and social distancing are largely gone, but just as consequentially, a less visible pandemic intervention is ending: universally free school meals.

In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

Solidarity between men and women workers is crucial to advancing the cause of workers in America.

The emergence of the supermarket was used as a key piece of anti-communist propaganda early in the twentieth century against the alternative of grocery co-ops.

Amid the global threats posed by climate change, energy costs, unemployment and inequality, the need to rethink progress is now an urgent priority.

Most of these tools are based on the Consumer Price Index, a measure of changing prices in the U.S. over time

The Federal Reserve keeps increasing interest rates to try to bring prices down — but that may erase gains by non-White workers.

Was coining a heinous offense that underminined public trust in currency, or a creative solution to the shortage of specie across the Atlantic world?

History shows that targeted price caps work when accompanied by a public campaign.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

The often forgotten takeover of St. Louis by workers showed that the U.S. isn't immune to Paris Commune–style eruptions of class consciousness.

High unemployment is extremely dangerous.

Out of a common history emerged racism, capitalism, and the whole world. This offers us a clue on how to change that world.

How nonprofits went from essential service providers to vehicles for programs shaped and approved by capital.

A new book recognizes the global character of Asian exclusion.

Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation's newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today.

In 1877, one million workers went on strike and fought police and federal troops in cities across America.

Using records digitized in part by amateur genealogists, economists have upended conventional wisdom about which immigrants succeed and why.