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Coretta Scott King.

Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee

She saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.
by David Stein via Boston Review on May 16, 2017
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NAFTA Policy Reveals a Distinction Between Trump, Ross Perot, and Patrick Buchanan

Trump has echoed the NAFTA policy of his politically upstart forbearers—mostly.
by Paul Adler via HNN on May 7, 2017
Political cartoon showing the effects of the recession, including idle ships, drunk men, and a woman and child begging a banker for mercy.

The Panic of 1837

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Samantha Gibson via Digital Public Library of America on January 1, 2017
Political cartoon depicting Standard Oil as an octopus.

When Did Americans Stop Being Antimonopoly?

Columbia professor Richard R. John explains the history of U.S. monopolies and why antimonopoly should not be conflated with antitrust.
by Richard R. John, Asher Schechter via Pro-Market on November 21, 2016

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
by Matt Stoller via The Atlantic on October 24, 2016
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Cult

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?
by Robert Sullivan via Harper’s on October 1, 2016

Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.
by Judith Stein, Connor Kilpatrick via Jacobin on September 6, 2016
A reenactment of a Revolutionary War battle.

Placing the American Revolution in Global Perspective

Why did the American Revolution succeed while other revolutions in the same time period did not?
by Steven Pincus via Age of Revolutions on June 20, 2016

Andrew Jackson was A Slaver, Ethnic Cleanser, and Tyrant

Andrew Jackson deserves nothing but contempt from modern America, not a place on our currency.
by Dylan Matthews via Vox on April 20, 2016
Ross Perot speaking in front of a banner opposing NAFTA.

End of the End of History, Redux

Remember Perot?
by Frank Guan via n+1 on March 24, 2016

How the Rivalry Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Changed History

Read an excerpt from TIME's special edition about Alexander Hamilton.
by John Ferling via TIME on February 15, 2016

The Twin Insurgency

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.
by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on June 15, 2014
Map of Mexico
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Birth of a Trade War

The Mexican origins of the birth control pill, and the trade dispute with the U.S. it generated.
via BackStory on January 7, 2014
Sign saying "WHIP INFLATION NOW" with image of Uncle Sam whipping a personification of inflation

The Rise of Inflation

Understanding how inflation came to be a mainstay in modern economics.
by Rebecca L. Spang via Cabinet on June 14, 2013
Graphic of NRA Blue Eagle, circa. 1933.

The Other NRA (Or How the Philadelphia Eagles Got Their Name)

Before it ubiquitously meant the National Rifle Association, the NRA had a very different meaning.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 22, 2013

Tales of Brave Ulysses

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.
by H. W. Brands via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 1, 2012
Trucks and cars moving on the highway

Keep on Truckin’

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Democracy Journal on December 10, 2008

The Education of David Stockman

"None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers."
by William Greider via The Atlantic on December 15, 1981
William James.

Conscription for Peace

William James’s ‘moral equivalent of war’ a hundred years later.
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via Commonweal on November 12, 2025
A collage featuring Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King Jr., and Africa.

What Pan-Africanism Can Teach Us Now

A biography of Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah casts the post-WWII era as a Black liberation epic rather than a psychodrama between Moscow and Washington.
by Lovia Gyarkye via The New Republic on September 25, 2025
Nervous stock traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 2008.
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The 2008 Financial Crisis Explained: Housing Bubble to Bailout

Risky loans, regulatory gaps, and Wall Street practices fueled the 2008 financial crisis and led to the Great Recession.
via Retro Report on September 25, 2025
Apple Company store in Chongqing, China.

How American Tech Made China an Economic Superpower

"Apple in China" tells the incredible story of China’s industrial development through the lens of America’s most iconic tech giant.
by Daniel Cheng via Damage on September 9, 2025
Edit of different mayoral candidates distored to spiral

Fusionism Has Never Worked. Democrats Keep Trying Anyway.

Mamdani’s NYC mayoral rise revives debates over Democratic fusionism, echoing 1890s Populist struggles with establishment power.
by Zeb Larson via Dame Magazine on September 4, 2025
A former coal miner works at a computer station at the Bit Source LLC office in Pikeville, Kentucky

The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker

Knowledge workers, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization until AI and a hypercompetitive employment market.
by Vinit Ravishankar, Mostafa Abdou via Jacobin on July 10, 2025

Why America Got a Warfare State, Not a Welfare State

How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it.
by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on June 26, 2025
Vintage illustration of three generations of a 1950s American family, sitting in their living room watching television (screen print), 1950.

How Social Reactionaries Exploit Economic Nostalgia

Conservatives think we need traditional hierarchies to reverse social decline; But it’s the economic equality created by strong unions that Americans miss.
by Meagan Day via Jacobin on May 20, 2025
A magnifying glass on C. Wright Mills's book "The Power Elite."

Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?

The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.
by Peter Dreier via The New Republic on May 5, 2025
Henry Carey
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The 19th Century Thinker Who Touted Tariffs

Trump is not alone in his support for tariffs. Henry Carey also believed tariffs could help American workers.
by Christopher W. Calvo via Made By History on April 28, 2025
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Tax Season and the Making of the American Fiscal State

As Americans file their taxes this tax season, the Trump administration threatens to unravel the modern fiscal state.
by John Fabian Witt, Ajay K. Mehrotra via Made By History on April 16, 2025
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Free Trader

A little understood part of the New Deal.
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on April 4, 2025
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