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Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.

As the craft beer industry reckons with its oppressive past, it may be time to re-examine the complicated history (and present) of hops in the United States

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.

Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce

An interview with Ben Tarnoff, the author of "Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future."

Cheap palm oil is part of an interlocking late capitalist system.

Watergate led to a landmark law designed to limit the influence of money in politics. Today, some say the scandal isn’t what’s illegal, it’s what’s legal.

Now is a critical time to acquire a better understanding of this misunderstood and oversimplified philosophy known as Neomercantilism.

The recently rereleased 1979 film can teach today’s workers how to throw their weight around.

The story of the modern web is often told through the stories of Google, Facebook, Amazon. But eBay was the first conqueror.

The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white Americans, and one of the most persistent.

Tufts Professor Kris Manjapra examines the history of the injustice of abolition in the U.S. and abroad and the need for reparations in his new book.

Wealthy planter Samuel Townshend wanted to leave this estate to his children when he died—an ordinary enough wish. The trouble was: his children were enslaved.

What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?

A movement to secure payments for descendants of enslaved people rages on.

Spotless bathrooms used to be a crucial selling point for gas stations.

Harvard made headlines by announcing that it would devote $100 million to remedying “the harms of the university’s ties to slavery.”

Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on the data illusion of the rags-to-riches stories.

The history of control and decontrol in the oil market.

Communists fighting the color line. Baseball players resisting owners. Baseball's untold history of struggles against racial injustice and labor exploitation.

The long, strange saga of government cheese.

What degree of legitimacy by voters does a public institution need in a democracy, and how much independence do experts in such an institution need to do their job?

On inflation, institutions, and the governance of the price level.

History’s lessons for the volatile digital currency markets.

Children from poor families or with special formula needs are most at risk.

On school funding and America’s kleptocratic public school divide.

The reasons have to do with the complexity of the transaction, but also with the industry’s explosive growth in its early years.

There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the USDA helped erase that source of wealth.

The diminished status of the non-white working class is not a matter of accident, but of design.