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Capitalism and (Under)Development in the American South
In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy.
by
Keri Leigh Merritt
via
Aeon
on
April 2, 2024
Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History
Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.
by
Rogé Karma
via
The Atlantic
on
November 25, 2023
Greenbacks, Chits, and Scrip
Alternative currencies flourish in desperate times and situations.
by
Michael Meyer
via
Distillations
on
May 3, 2022
Reconstruction Finance
Popular politics and reconstructing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
by
Nic Johnson
via
Phenomenal World
on
April 28, 2021
Milton Friedman Was Wrong
The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.
by
Eric Posner
via
The Atlantic
on
August 22, 2019
A Centuries-Old Idea Could Revolutionize Climate Policy
The Green New Deal’s mastermind is a precocious New Yorker with big ambitions. Sound familiar?
by
Robinson Meyer
via
The Atlantic
on
February 19, 2019
How Immigrants Fit Into America's Economy, Now and 100 Years Ago
Compared to 19th-century arrivals, today's new arrivals are much more likely to be at the extreme ends of the earnings spectrum.
by
Gillian B. White
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The Atlantic
on
January 24, 2016
History’s Lessons on Anti-Immigrant Extremism
Even Trump’s recent assertion that he would use executive action to abolish birthright citizenship has a historical link to the Chinese American experience.
by
Michael Luo
via
The New Yorker
on
January 5, 2025
Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public vices.
by
Tim Barker
via
Origins of Our Time
on
January 1, 2025
A Newly Declassified Document Suggests Things With Russia Could Have Turned Out Very Differently
This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.
by
Fred Kaplan
via
Slate
on
December 23, 2024
Why the CEO Shooter Makes the Perfect American Folk Hero
Our country has a long history of admiring particular acts of violence.
by
Elliott Gorn
via
Slate
on
December 18, 2024
partner
Nuggets of Condescension
By universalizing their own economic history, Western observers have used the past to portray African economic culture as backward and inadequate.
by
Bronwen Everill
via
HNN
on
December 17, 2024
Practical Knowledge and the New Republic
Osgood Carleton and his forgotten 1795 map of Boston.
by
John W. Mackey
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Argomaps.org
on
December 17, 2024
partner
The 2024 Election Marked the Inversion of the Electoral Map
Basic political geography means Democrats might need to ask themselves a broader question as they look to rebound.
by
Stephanie Ternullo
via
Made By History
on
December 16, 2024
Brad DeLong’s Long March Through the 20th Century
A sweeping new history chronicles a century of unprecedented economic progress driven by markets and innovation.
by
Thomas Strand
via
Jacobin
on
December 15, 2024
Our Plastic Obsession
The story of credit cards is the story of industry versus regulators. Industry won.
by
Richard Vague
via
Democracy Journal
on
December 12, 2024
"It's the Economy, Stupid" is Never Just About the Economy
Can the Clinton campaign slogan chart a path forward for Democrats? Its history tells another story.
by
Jacob Rosenberg
via
Mother Jones
on
December 12, 2024
partner
Will Grover Cleveland's Second Term Foreshadow Trump's Future?
The only president before Trump to win, lose, and win again ended up decimating his own party during his second term.
by
Luke Voyles
via
Made By History
on
November 21, 2024
The Age of Class Dealignment
Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.
by
Bhaskar Sunkara
via
Jacobin
on
November 21, 2024
US Labor and the Gaza War: Historical Perspective
Are we doomed to repetition? It’s something I worry about.
by
Tim Barker
via
Origins of Our Time
on
November 15, 2024
The New Trumpian Bargain
Trump's second term echoes 19th-century policies: tariffs and immigration limits protect workers, while deregulation risks widening inequality.
by
Sohrab Ahmari
via
New Statesman
on
November 12, 2024
Who Owns the Mountains?
Hurricane Helene has revived urgent questions about the politics of land — and tourism — in Appalachia.
by
Olivia Paschal
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 3, 2024
Donald Trump Would Be Weaker the Second Time Around
Donald Trump wants the ideology of William McKinley and Gilded Age Republicanism, but with a totally different social base. It won’t work.
by
Paul Heidman
via
Jacobin
on
October 23, 2024
The Original Angry Populist
They say there’s never been a man like Donald Trump in American politics. But there was—and we should learn from him. Look back to early-20th-century Georgia.
by
Zachary D. Carter
via
Slate
on
October 16, 2024
American Feudalism
A liberalism that divides humanity into a master class and a slave class deserves an asterisk as “white liberalism.”
by
Paul Crider
via
Liberal Currents
on
October 2, 2024
The Intractable Puzzle of Growth
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.
by
Benjamin Kunkel
via
The Nation
on
August 26, 2024
The Return of Hamiltonian Statecraft
A grand strategy for a turbulent world.
by
Walter Russell Mead
via
Foreign Affairs
on
August 20, 2024
The American Con Man Who Pioneered Offshore Finance
How a now-obscure financier turned the Bahamas into a tax haven—and created a cornerstone of global plutocracy.
by
Brooke Harrington
via
The Atlantic
on
August 19, 2024
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The GOP's 72-Year-Old Inflation Playbook
Since the 1950s, the GOP has simplified the causes of inflation in order to blame Democrats.
by
Johnny Fulfer
via
Made By History
on
August 14, 2024
Dispelling the WWII Productivity Myth
Generally speaking, emergencies tend to reduce productivity, at least in the short and medium terms.
by
Alberto Mingardi
via
Law & Liberty
on
July 30, 2024
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