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Americans love games of chance, but history shows they're a poor substitute for a robust investment in public goods.

Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.

Despite having their citizenship withheld before the war, Chinese American women in the Bay Area made significant contributions to the wartime labor force.

The emergence of student loan debt in the late 1960s can be situated within a broader shift towards neoliberal governance.

In the 1920s, advertisers tried to convince women to exercise their political power not only at the ballot box but also in the store.

The forgotten history of the Lloyd-La Follette Act and of whistleblowing in the federal workforce.

Inside the weird synergies that launched the videogaming industry—and made the Pentagon fantasies in Call of Duty its stock in trade.

Economists and Democrats dismiss Trump’s tariffs talk at their peril.

In "Counterrevolution," Melinda Cooper reads the 1970s economic crisis as an elite revolt rather than proof of the New Deal order’s unsustainability.

The tariffs he keeps babbling about didn’t make that decade great. They helped usher in a depression.

Researchers measured lawmakers’ wealth and found that those whose Southern ancestors owned slaves before abolition have a higher net worth today.

Dr. Bronner blends spirituality, ethical consumerism, and social activism, aiming to support both community and environmental causes through “All-One” values.

A new film examines Trump's formative years under the tutelage of Roy Cohn.

“The Bookshop” tells the story of American bookstores in thirteen types. Its true subject is not how bookstore can survive, but how they should be.

MLB’s focus on wealthier fans stands in stark contrast to rhetoric about the ballpark that had long called it a site of egalitarian intermixing.

To achieve a new political settlement, she has to resolve a tension dating from the Revolution.

How Ibn Khaldun influenced the president and a generation of conservative tax policy.

AT&T’s early leaders used PR to sway public opinion, casting their monopoly as a public service and obscuring its political roots.

On the transatlantic development of pilsners and lagers from Central Europe to the Americas.

As women stretch themselves thin, homesteader influencers sell them an image of containment.

The deep roots of debt relief activism in the United States.

Harris' rhetoric about working at McDonald's shows how Democrats have rethought their 1990s emphasis on fast food jobs.

Grassroots support for public banks early in the 20th century revealed the popularity of socialism-aligned economic ideas.

Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving necessary.

America's public schools were founded on the ideal of uniting rich and poor, but inequality persists due to racial, income, and systemic divides.

Through his work in both the Teamsters and the NAACP, Ernest Calloway embodied the potential of a united labor and civil rights movement.

How we calculate inflation has always been a subject of debate. Small changes that might seem trivial lead to enormous changes in how well-off we think we are.

The idea of "Black jobs" owes to 18th and 19th century divisions of labor designed to uphold slavery and white supremacy.

Should equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics?

The key measure of a healthy economy has long been growth, yet if production and consumption expand at their current rate we risk the health of the planet.