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When Medicare Helped Kill Jim Crow

By making health care broadly available, the government helps ensure our freedom.
by Mike Konczal via The Nation on January 19, 2021

The Dark History of School Choice

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.
by Diane Ravitch via New York Review of Books on January 4, 2021
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The US Government Can Provide Universal Childcare — It’s Done So in the Past

There’s no reason we can’t have universal childcare that’s wildly popular and provides high-quality care — in fact, during World War II, we did.
by Daphna Thier via Jacobin on December 27, 2020

The Civil Rights Era was Supposed to Drastically Change America. It Didn’t.

From covid-19 to the 2020 election, the specter of America’s racist history influences many aspects of our lives.
by Stefan M. Bradley via Washington Post on December 23, 2020
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The Way We Tax

From municipal government to international trade, these writings examine the political rhetoric, economic theories, and changing policies of taxation in the U.S.

The Real History of Race and the New Deal

Material benefits trumped FDR's terrible civil rights records.
by Matthew Yglesias via Slow Boring on December 11, 2020

Stop Worrying About Protecting ‘Taxpayers.’ That Isn’t the Government’s Job.

Republicans are replacing the public good with a far narrower definition of it.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Washington Post on August 3, 2020

Whose Century?

One has to wonder whether the advocates of a new Cold War have taken the measure of the challenge posed by 21st-century China.
by Adam Tooze via London Review of Books on July 22, 2020

COVID-19 and the Color Line

Due to racist policies, Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis.
by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jamala Rogers, Jason Q. Purnell via Boston Review on April 30, 2020

The Nation’s First Unemployment Check — $15 — and the Love Story that Led to It

During the Great Depression, the daughter of the first Jewish Supreme Court justice and the son of a prominent Christian theologian changed America.
by Michael S. Rosenwald via Retropolis on April 18, 2020

Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.
by Marshall Steinbaum via Boston Review on March 25, 2020
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Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution

Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.
by Lily Geismer via Jacobin on February 19, 2020

When the Government Decided the Spread on Your Toast Should Be Pink

The ‘margarine wars’ explain the 19th-century struggle to regulate food.
by Ai Hisano via Zócalo Public Square on January 15, 2020
High risk, high return investments in whaling ships, such as the New Bedford, Massachusetts, provided a model for modern venture capital. Courtesy New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Venture Capital Builds The Modern World

The American method of high-risk, potentially high-reward investments has fueled innovation from New England whaling ventures to Silicon Valley start-ups.
by Tom Nicholas via American Heritage on January 1, 2020

The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever, Can They?

Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.
by Liaquat Ahamed via The New Yorker on August 26, 2019

American Wealth Is Broken

My family is a success story. We’re also evidence of the long odds African Americans face on the path to success.
by Maura Cheeks via The Atlantic on July 31, 2019
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How the U.S. Cashed in on Puerto Rico

In 1898, the US emerged with a profitable jewel in its colonial crown.
by Rosa Colón via The Nib on July 8, 2019

Full Metal Racket

A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to the military-industrial complex.
by Jamie Martin via Bookforum on June 1, 2019

The Surprising Origins of 'Medicare for All'

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.
by Abigail Abrams via TIME on May 30, 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
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

Empire of the Census

America’s long history of manipulating its headcount for political gain.
by Ed Burmila via The Baffler on March 1, 2019

Atlas Weeps

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on December 12, 2018

Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush?

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.
by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on December 1, 2018

The Costs of the Confederacy

In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.
by Brian Palmer, Seth Freed Wessler via Smithsonian on November 28, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

The Year the Clock Broke

How the world we live in already happened in 1992.
by John Ganz via The Baffler on November 5, 2018

How Republicans Became Anti-Choice

The Republican Party used control of women’s bodies as political capital to shift the balance of power their way.
by Sue Halpern via New York Review of Books on October 31, 2018
Armed militiamen in front of a house in Jieh, Lebanon, Jan. 18, 1976. AP

How Likely Is A New American Civil War?

Surprising lessons from Lebanon’s Conflict in the 1970s.
by Emily Whalen via Task & Purpose on October 18, 2018

Philanthropists Will Not Save Us

All of Andrew Carnegie’s arguments were devoted to explaining why inequality ultimately was good: not only for its beneficiaries, but for poor people as well.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Public Books on October 17, 2018

Greater Homeownership isn’t the Answer to Ending Wealth Inequality

Black Americans have just one-tenth of the wealth of white Americans, and the difference in home values is a big part of the problem.
by Eshe Nelson via Quartz on April 19, 2018

A New Struggle Coming

On the teachers' strike in West Virginia.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via n+1 on March 5, 2018
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