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A Slave Trader’s Office Decor and the Pornography of Capitalism

In the antebellum South, the slave trader’s office was a site of desire.

by Jeff Forret via The Panorama on February 17, 2020

Is Anti-Monopolism Enough?

A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.

by Gabriel Winant via The Nation on January 21, 2020

A Black woman poses with the McDonald's golden arches.

How Fast Food "Became Black"

A new book, "Franchise," explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.

by Marcia Chatelain, Cynthia R. Greenlee via Vox on January 10, 2020

Four African-Americans in front of a McDonalds restaurant

The Intertwined History of McDonald’s and Black America

In good ways and bad, the Golden Arches have always loomed large in the African American experience.

by Marcia Chatelain via Gen on January 6, 2020

A circa 1830 illustration of a slave auction in America. Rischgitz/Hulton Archive—Getty Images.

'The Slaves Dread New Year's Day the Worst': The Grim History of January 1

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on December 27, 2019

How Disney’s ‘Community of Tomorrow’ Became a Nightmare

In 2004, Disney sold the downtown of utopian Celebration, Florida, to a private equity firm. Residents say it took their money and let the city rot around them.

by Tarpley Hitt via The Daily Beast on December 18, 2019

Occupy Wall Street’s Legacy Runs Deeper Than You Think

Former occupiers are working to transform the system from inside and out.

by Astra Taylor via Teen Vogue on December 17, 2019

Life Under the Algorithm

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

by Gabriel Winant via The New Republic on December 4, 2019

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle

In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.

by Paul Musgrave via Foreign Policy on November 28, 2019

Devils roasting the earth on a spit.

From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World

The transformation of the environmental movement.

by Christopher Caldwell via Claremont Review of Books on November 1, 2019

How Silicon Valley Broke the Economy

The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.

by Adrian Chen via The Nation on October 14, 2019

Big Tobacco, Jim Crow, and Commercial Imperialism

A review of Nan Ensted's "Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism."

by Johnny Fulfer via The Economic Historian on October 12, 2019

What’s Left of Generation X

To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on October 8, 2019

The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on September 27, 2019

Clarence Thomas.

The Conservative Black Nationalism of Clarence Thomas

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.

by Corey Robin, Joshua Cohen via Boston Review on September 23, 2019

How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

by Shoshana Zuboff via Longreads on September 5, 2019

How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

by John Clegg via Jacobin on August 28, 2019

“I Lifted Up Mine Eyes to Ghana”

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.

by Keisha N. Blain via Jacobin on August 27, 2019

The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever, Can They?

Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.

by Liaquat Ahamed via The New Yorker on August 26, 2019

Cotton field.

How The 1619 Project Rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ Thesis

The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to make an argument with an inauspicious history.

by Phillip W. Magness via National Review on August 26, 2019

Water is for Fighting

How a profit-driven approach to water rights left the west high and dry.

by Sparky Abraham via Current Affairs on July 8, 2019

In Defense of the American Revolution

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.

by Tom Cutterham via Jacobin on July 4, 2019

The Square Deal

Some people called it "Welfare Capitalism." George F. Johnson called it "The Square Deal."

by Nellie Gilles, Sarah Kate Kramer, Joe Richman via Radio Diaries on June 20, 2019

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.

by Peter James Hudson via Boston Review on June 18, 2019

‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 11, 2019

A Strange Blight: Rachel Carson’s Forebodings

Reading Silent Spring today, in the hazy reddish glow of climate catastrophe, is both an exhilarating and a melancholy pleasure.

by Meehan Crist via London Review of Books on June 6, 2019

The Persistent Ghost of Ayn Rand, the Forebear of Zombie Neoliberalism

A review of Lisa Duggan's book, "Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed.”

by Masha Gessen via The New Yorker on June 6, 2019

Full Metal Racket

A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to the military-industrial complex.

by Jamie Martin via Bookforum on June 1, 2019

The Forgotten Economic Idea Democrats Need to Rediscover

A neglected theory that helps explain today’s problems.

by Ezra Klein via Vox on May 17, 2019

To Save Democracy, We Need Class Struggle

The historical record is clear: democracy was only won when poor people waged disruptive class struggle against the rich.

by Adaner Usmani via Jacobin on May 13, 2019

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