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A Brief History of the Gig

The gig economy wasn’t built in a day.
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Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution

Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.
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Michael Lind on Reviving Democracy

To fix things, we must acknowledge the nature of the problem.

They Wanted to Remake the World; Instead We Got President Trump

Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.

Life Under the Algorithm

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

The Seattle Protests Showed Another World Is Possible

Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today’s critics of neoliberal capitalism.
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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.

The Obamanauts

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?
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Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?

On the myths and rituals of the market, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the rise of neoliberalism.
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The Persistent Ghost of Ayn Rand, the Forebear of Zombie Neoliberalism

In a new book, Lisa Duggan spotlights the Randian spirit of what she calls the “Neoliberal Theater of Cruelty.”

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.
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Obama's Original Sin

A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal reinforced neoliberal Clintonism.
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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.
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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 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.
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All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.
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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.

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