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The Dead Kennedys band.

America Needs a Definitive History of Dead Kennedys…And Here’s Why It Won’t Happen

"I pledge to laugh / At the Flag / Of the United States of America..."
by Will Greer via Tropics of Meta on July 30, 2018
Two inmates survey the aftermath of a prison uprising.

Prisons and Class Warfare

A look at the evolution of the prison system in California.
by Clement Petitjean, Ruth Wilson Gilmore via Historical Materialism on July 25, 2018

Neoliberalism’s World Order

Neoliberalism set out not to demolish the state, but to create an international order strong enough to override democracy in the service of private property.
by Adam Tooze via Dissent on July 1, 2018

How the Disposable Straw Explains Modern Capitalism

A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw. Seriously.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on June 21, 2018

The Globalist

George Soros after the open society.
by Daniel Bessner via n+1 on June 18, 2018
Luis Posada Carriles

Death of a Cold War Supervillain

Anticommunist militant Luis Posada Carriles, who popped up throughout Latin America over the past half-century, won’t be missed.
by Hilary Goodfriend via Jacobin on June 11, 2018
Donald Trump holding up a bill he signed.
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Ceding Power to the Executive is Backfiring on Free-Trade Advocates

Liberal Democrats sidestepped Congress to bring free trade to the U.S. Now, Trump is able to do the same thing to destroy it.
by Jennifer Delton via Made By History on June 7, 2018
Walking feet, barbells, a stethescope, and a doctor, on the cover of 'Natural Causes.'

Dystopian Bodies

In her newest book, Barbara Ehrenreich attacks the "epidemic" of wellness.
by Niko Maragos via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 7, 2018
Political cartoon of Grover Cleveland's trade policy.

Can History Avoid Conspiracy?

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."
by Andy Seal via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 4, 2018

The Market Police

In neoliberalism, state power is needed to enforce market relations, but the site of that power must be hidden from politics.
by J. W. Mason via Boston Review on June 1, 2018
Political cartoon of special interests looming over the Senate.

Markets Aren't Natural, Government Have to Make Them Work

"Marketcraft" is one of the most important functions for any government.
by Steven K. Vogel via OUPblog on May 30, 2018
Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass Is No Libertarian

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.
by Maurice S. Lee via Public Books on May 18, 2018
Actors on in 18th-century costumes on stage in "The Low Road."

Unrevolutionary Bastardy

A review of a "The Low Road," a “mordantly anti-Hamiltonian” play that made its debut at New York's Public Theater this spring.
by Hannah Farber via The Junto on May 16, 2018
An ad published in the first issue of 'Consumer Reports' (1936).
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Can Consumer Groups Be Radical?

A historian looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.
by Lawrence B. Glickman, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 16, 2018
Blurry photo of shelves of food in a supermarket aisle.
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The Great American Supermarket Lie

Instead of highlighting the glories of capitalism, supermarkets expose the inequalities it creates.
by Shane Hamilton via Made By History on April 27, 2018

Worlds Apart

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on April 23, 2018

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on April 18, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.
by Michael K. Honey via The Nation on April 3, 2018

Factory Made

A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls.
by Padraic X. Scanlan via The New Inquiry on March 30, 2018

Banking Against (Black) Capitalism

A review of "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap."
by Armond Towns, Carolyn Hardin via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 19, 2018

Agriculture Wars

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
by Nick Murray via Viewpoint Magazine on March 12, 2018

For Tech Giants, a Cautionary Tale from 19th Century Railroads on Competition’s Limits

How much monopoly is too much monopoly?
by Richard White via The Conversation on March 6, 2018

In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via Black Perspectives on March 5, 2018

Amazon’s Labor-Tracking Wristband Has a History

Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.
by Stephen Mihm via Bloomberg on February 23, 2018

This, Our Second Nadir

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.
by N. D. B. Connolly via Boston Review on February 21, 2018

Black and Red

The history of Black Socialism in America.
by Tanna Tucker, Nestor Castillo via The Nib on February 14, 2018
A souvenir superbowl 53 football outside of a stadium
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The NFL: America’s Socialist Utopia

The Super Bowl might be a capitalist bonanza — but its creation was the ultimate socialist act.
by Jesse Berrett via Made By History on February 2, 2018

The World the Cold War Built

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.
by Leon Hadar via The American Conservative on January 31, 2018

Conservatives and Counterrevolutionaries

Lily Geismer reviews the second edition of Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind.”
by Lily Geismer via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 19, 2018

Martin Luther King’s Radical Anti-Capitalism

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The Paris Review on January 15, 2018
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