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Ross Perot, Populist Harbinger

Views that were fringe in Perot’s day had, by the 2016 election, taken center stage.

by Jacqueline Brandon via Dissent on July 10, 2019

How the Chicago School Changed the Meaning of Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’

Smith wasn’t warning about government intervention in the market; he was warning about government capture.

by Glory M. Liu via Washington Post on April 22, 2019

Wayward Leviathans

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.

by David Ciepley via The Hedgehog Review on March 1, 2019

Trump's National Security Justification for Tariffs is Not as Strange as it Sounds

Our concept of national security is so broad it can encompass virtually anything.

by Andrew Preston via Made By History on August 17, 2018

Printing food stamps.

Why American Policy is Leaving Millions Hungry

Instead of trying to eliminate hunger, we continue to talk about personal responsibility.

by Rachel Louise Moran via Made By History on August 7, 2018

Can Consumer Groups Be Radical?

Historian Lawrence Glickman looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.

by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 16, 2018

Jared Kushner's Business Dealings Evoke the Nepotism and Corruption of the Gilded Age

From fee-based governance to the “friendships” between the rich and public officials, the 19th century practices we once banished are back.

by Richard White via NBC News on March 2, 2018

The Jones Act, the Obscure 1920 Shipping Regulation Strangling Puerto Rico

Protectionism and exploitation at its worst.

by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on September 27, 2017

Trump Is A 19th-Century President Facing 21st-Century Problems

His hands-off approach to policy-making and moral leadership hearkens back to much earlier times.

by Julia Azari via FiveThirtyEight on August 28, 2017

Cartoon silhouettes of elongated business people in suits

Business as Usual: The Long History of Corporate Personhood

The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation’s most powerful corporations from President Trump’s now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on August 23, 2017

Puerto Rico’s Long Fall from ‘Shining Star’ to The ‘Greece’ of The Caribbean

Puerto Rico's financial situation could make it the "next Greece."

by Pedro Caban via The Conversation on July 12, 2015

Men standing outside a store with a sign supporting the WPA in the window.

The Voluntarism Fantasy

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.

by Mike Konczal via Democracy Journal on March 17, 2014

Photograph of cars bumper to bumper on a highway, USA (year unknown, likely during 1970s energy crisis)

How Congress Planned To Solve The 1970s Energy Crisis

Representative Mo Udall's ambitious strategy to wean the United States off fossil fuels by the year 2000.

by Morris K. Udall via The New Republic on June 16, 1973

Book cover of "Let the Glory Out: My South and its Politics" by Al Gore

The Chaotic Politics of the South

For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes.

by C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 14, 1972

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