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Half a Century of Anti-tax Orthodoxy Is Wrong
Taxation is at the heart of any serious economic growth policy.
by
Felicia Wong
via
Boston Review
on
December 15, 2017
When America Was a Developing Country
The nostalgia of some conservatives hearkens back to a different—and irretrievable—economic time.
by
Addison Del Mastro
via
The American Conservative
on
December 13, 2017
The Republican Tax Bill Is a Poison Pill That Kills the New Deal
Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.
by
Heather Cox Richardson
via
BillMoyers.com
on
December 7, 2017
The Cold War and the Welfare State
If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.
by
Nils Gilman
via
The American Interest
on
December 4, 2017
I’m a Depression Historian. The GOP Tax Bill is Straight Out of 1929.
Republicans are again sprinting toward an economic cliff.
by
Robert S. McElvaine
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Washington Post
on
November 30, 2017
Art Laffer and the Intellectual Rot of the Republican Party
The godfather of supply-side economics is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.
by
Jeet Heer
via
The New Republic
on
October 18, 2017
The Crash of ’87, From the Wall Street Players Who Lived It
An oral history of the biggest one-day stock market drop in history.
by
Richard Dewey
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Bloomberg
on
October 16, 2017
How the U.S. Government Locked Black Americans Out of Attaining the American Dream
The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark.
by
Mehrsa Baradaran
,
Emma Roller
via
Splinter
on
October 11, 2017
The Rage of White Folk
How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.
by
Steven Hahn
via
The Nation
on
September 27, 2017
The Book that Explains Charlottesville
The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.
by
Marshall Steinbaum
via
Boston Review
on
August 14, 2017
Triumph of the Shill
The political theory of Trumpism.
by
Corey Robin
via
n+1
on
August 9, 2017
Massive Rise Of Top Incomes Is Mostly Driven By Capital
All top 1 percent income growth after 2000 came from ownership of capital.
by
Matt Bruenig
via
People's Policy Project
on
August 9, 2017
The Incredible Lost History of How “Civil Rights Plus Full Employment Equals Freedom”
Why the policies of the Federal Reserve were a central focus for the civil rights movement.
by
Jon Schwarz
via
The Intercept
on
July 17, 2017
The Return of Monopoly
With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?
by
Matt Stoller
via
The New Republic
on
July 13, 2017
What Is the Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses the Majority.
The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.
by
Nancy MacLean
,
Rebecca Onion
via
Slate
on
June 22, 2017
Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword
Buying goods in the Old South revealed the fragile politics at the heart of master-slave relation.
by
Kathleen Hilliard
via
Process: A Blog for American History
on
June 12, 2017
The Strange Secret History of Operation Goldfinger
In the sixties, the U.S. government ran a secret project to look for gold in the oddest places: seawater, meteorites, plants, even deer antlers.
by
James Ledbetter
via
The New Yorker
on
June 10, 2017
How Tax Policy Created the 1%
For nearly a century, American tax policy has privileged the investor class and advanced the accumulation of white wealth.
by
Julia Ott
via
Dissent
on
April 18, 2017
Expanding the Slaveocracy
The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.
by
Eric Foner
,
Matthew Karp
via
Jacobin
on
March 21, 2017
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
“What We Have is Capture of the Regulators’ Minds, A Much More Sophisticated Form of Capture Than Putting Money in Their Pockets”
How every major industry and marketplace in America came to be controlled by a single, monolithic player.
by
Barry C. Lynn
,
Asher Schechter
via
Pro-Market
on
March 26, 2016
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Canals 1820-1890
An interactive map of U.S. canals in the first half of the 19th century.
by
Ed Ayers
,
Robert K. Nelson
,
Scott Nesbit
,
Justin Madron
,
Nathaniel Ayers
,
Beaumont Smith
via
American Panorama
on
December 1, 2015
Our Mis-Leading Indicators
How statistical data came to rule public policy.
by
Stephen Macekura
via
Public Books
on
September 15, 2014
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
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
Tax Time
Why we pay.
by
Jill Lepore
via
The New Yorker
on
November 19, 2012
The History of Health Care Spending in 7 Graphs
Health care spending grew more slowly in the past two years than it has in over five decades.
via
Washington Post
on
January 9, 2012
How Poverty Was, and Was Not, Pictured Before the Civil War
Images were important in defining the Republic between the Revolution and the Civil War and they distinctively both did and did not show Americans in need.
by
Jonathan Prude
via
Commonplace
on
April 12, 2010
Sailors’ Health and National Wealth
That the federal government created this health care system for merchant mariners in the early American republic will surprise many.
by
Gautham Rao
via
Commonplace
on
October 1, 2008
Inventing Alexander Hamilton
The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.
by
William Hogeland
via
Boston Review
on
November 1, 2007
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