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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.”

All Stick No Carrot: Racism, Property Tax Assessments, and Neoliberalism Post 1945 Chicago

Black homeowners have been an oft ignored actor in metropolitan history despite playing a central role.

A Hundred Years of Solidarity

If we want to fight capitalism, the US left has to figure out how to confront US empire.
Photo over Obama's shoulder facing Larry Summers and Timothy Geitner on the other side of a conference table.

Obama's Original Sin

A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal reinforced neoliberal Clintonism.
Francis Fukuyama

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

Wayward Leviathans

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.

The Archivists of Extinction

Architectural history in an era of capitalist ruin.

“A Place to Die”: Law and Political Economy in the 1970s

What the substandard conditions at a Pittsburgh nursing home revealed about the choices made by lawmakers and judges.
Artistic photo for black history

The Trouble With Uplift

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

Is Democracy Really Dying?

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate.

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade

A seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.

Human Rights and Neoliberalism

How is it that the era of neoliberalism coincides almost perfectly with the triumphant rise of a discourse of human rights?

Somewhere in Between

The rise and fall of Clintonism.

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.

The Big Picture: The Right Type of Citizenship

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.

The New Working Class

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.

For-Profit Colleges in American History

Trump University follows a long line of for-profit schools that have faced accusations of dishonesty.
A painting of a "traditional" mid-20th century nuclear family.

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.
Hands holding vials of chemicals.

The Empire’s Amnesia

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

Trump's Predictable Rise

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.

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.

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.

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.
Ross Perot speaking in front of a banner opposing NAFTA.

End of the End of History, Redux

Remember Perot?

The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.

By supporting repressive governments, the U.S. has fueled the violence that has caused tens of thousands of kids to flee north.
Workers adjust a metal sheet on a Titan missile assembly line.

The Permanent War Economy Doesn’t Benefit Workers

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision.
John Cassidy

John Cassidy on Capitalism and Its Critics

The author on capitalism’s critics, why everyone is so unhappy with the system, and what may come next.
Chief Justices of the Supreme Court attend President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington, DC.

The Courts Won’t Save Us

Rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise.

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