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A shoreline expert writes about dredging vessels, Louisiana, neoliberalism, and her lifelong quest to save her hometown from the sea.

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth transformed America’s pastime by becoming a new kind of star.

Our cash could spread disease — and there is precedent for changing it because of the pandemic.

Claims that the programs adopted in the 1930s lengthened the Great Depression don’t hold up.

Keeping meat production moving during the pandemic is dangerous. But history shows that there’s little Americans won’t sacrifice for a cheap steak.

Federal funding during and after the New Deal ended up hurting cities because of who spent it and how.

The first major general strike in the United States coincided with the last major pandemic. Here’s the full story.

Protecting the food supply chain means protecting workers.

A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe.

The benefits that come with serving the country have withered in recent decades.

The bond market has fueled vast inequities between cities and suburbs — especially in smaller locales.

The mail delivery agency is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.

The gig economy wasn’t built in a day.

As 19th century reformers showed, only a healthy workforce can fuel economic prosperity.

In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short.

While worrying about our food supply, we must also worry about workers producing it.

In "Race for Profit," Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor walks us through the ways racist housing policy survived the abolition of redlining.

COVID-19 has taught us all just how frayed our social safety net has become, and how its holes make us all more vulnerable.

Fears about “undeserving” people receiving public assistance have deep ties to racism and the policing of black women’s bodies.

“Growing your own vegetables is great; beating Nazis is great. I think we’re all nostalgic for a time when anything was that simple.”

Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.

Our thanks should be recognizing the crucial role they play in our society.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

We examine the 1918 flu to understand whether social distancing has economic costs or if slowing the spread of the pandemic reduced economic severity.

When it's safe to return, baseball can play a big role in uniting Americans and providing comfort.

While assisting businesses, Congress must also continue to help consumers.

When societies shift their economies to a war footing, it doesn’t just help them survive a crisis—it alters them forever.

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

This is nothing like 2008. Or even 1914.

But in 1862, the federal government doled out the 2020 equivalent of $23 million—not to the formerly enslaved but to their white enslavers.