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Joe Biden Tried to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare for 40 Years

Joe Biden was once a New Deal Democrat. Then he “evolved” and starting backing decades of Republican plans to cut Medicare and Social Security.
by Branko Marcetic via Jacobin on January 29, 2020

The New China Scare

Why America shouldn’t panic about its latest challenger.
by Fareed Zakaria via Foreign Affairs on December 9, 2019
Cartoon of people at a crossroad, with one direction pointing to "prosperity" and the other to "depression"

Selling Keynesianism

Today, we can learn a lot from the popularizing efforts that led to that consensus that Keynesianism leads to and long-lasting economic success.
by Robert Manduca via Boston Review on December 6, 2019

Amid a Revival of Anti-Monopoly Sentiment, a New Book Traces Its History

Matt Stoller charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.
by Kyle Sammin via National Review on October 15, 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
Alan Greenspan holding his right hand up to speak under oath, with an eagle seal on the wall behind him.

When Alan Met Ayn: "Atlas Shrugged" and Our Tanked Economy

We owe at least part of the 2008 financial crisis to Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism.
by Maria Bustillos via Popula on October 11, 2019

Grover Cleveland and the Democrats Who Saved Conservatism

They stood against Tammany Hall, the centralized presidency, and profligate spending. Today's Right should give them another look.
by Daniel Bring via The American Conservative on August 28, 2019

The Myth of the Welfare Queen

The right turned Linda Taylor into a bogeyman. But her real life was much more complicated.
by Bryce Covert via The New Republic on July 2, 2019

Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal

What the backlash to the emergency legislation reveals about the age-old pathologies of the right.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on May 29, 2019

The American Revolution’s Starving, Barefoot, Heroic Troops

Our young nation was very poor, the war was very expensive, and Congress and the states wanted everyone else to pay.
by Jay Cost via National Review on May 27, 2019

Fiscal Fright in NYC

A review of Kim Phillips-Fein’s "Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics."
by Michael R. Glass via The Metropole on May 15, 2019
Image of the front cover of "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump."

Conservatives Before and After Earth Day

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?
by James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg via Harvard University Press Blog on April 22, 2019

Is This the End of the American Century?

Has Trump permanently damaged the credibility of the presidential office?
by Adam Tooze via London Review of Books on April 4, 2019
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression.

Rewarding Risk

Federal deposit insurance and the 1980s bank crisis.
by Kathleen Day via Perspectives on History on April 3, 2019

Geopolitics for the Left

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."
by Ted Fertik via n+1 on March 11, 2019

The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.
by Louis Hyman via The Atlantic on March 6, 2019

Inside Every Foreigner

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."
by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on February 21, 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

Model Metropolis

Behind one of the most iconic computer games of all time is a theory of how cities die—one that has proven dangerously influential.
by Kevin Baker via Logic on January 30, 2019
Franklin Roosevelt on the campaign trail.
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The Left is Pushing Democrats to Embrace Their Greatest President. It’s a Good Thing.

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on January 14, 2019

The Populist Specter

Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy?
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on January 10, 2019

Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on November 4, 2018

When Economists Took Socialism Seriously

If there’s one thing worth taking away from the new White House report on socialism, it’s that economics is a political argument.
by Tim Barker via Dissent on October 25, 2018

After the Financial Crisis, Wall Street Turned to Charity—and Avoided Justice

Giving in millions has a way of erasing harm done in billions.
by Anand Giridharadas via The New Yorker on September 15, 2018

Socialism and the Liberal Imagination

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.
by Mason B. Williams via Dissent on August 8, 2018

Happy, Healthy Economy

Growth is only worth something if it makes people feel good.
by Livia Gershon via Longreads on August 6, 2018

Democrats Would Be Better Off Today If Bill Clinton Had Never Been President

A look at the Clinton blunders that continue to damage his party today.
by Neil Swidey via Boston Globe on July 10, 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

The Globalist

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

There’s Something Fishy About U.S.-Canada Trade Wars

In the 19th century, a tariff dispute actually came to blows, with 30 million frozen herring caught in the middle.
by David Singerman via The Atlantic on June 14, 2018
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