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In the early nineties, the country turned against the establishment and right-wing populists thrived. A new history reassesses their impact.

In ‘When the Clock Broke,’ John Ganz revisits the era of Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot to find the roots of our populist moment.

The 1993 “Hold the Line” experiment.

If it weren’t for the young urban professionals of the 1980s, we’d never have MAGA.

The legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the launching of the Border Patrol, which inaugurated the most restrictive era of US immigration until our own.

How did taxes become something we "do"?

A cartoon report on the only policy proven to address the housing shortage and how racism, inept management, and disinvestment led to long-term decline.

Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.

Who's to blame for failures in 2000, 2001 & 2008?

The new podcast discusses how purity is woven into many of the myths that have fed White supremacy in the nation’s past and continue to do so today.

Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.

Biden continues a tradition of building fences at the US-Mexico border that long precedes Donald Trump.

Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.

The free market used to be touted as the cure for all our problems; now it’s taken to be the cause of them.

The esteemed labor historian reflects on his life and career, including Berkeley in the 1960s, Walter Reuther, the early UAW, Walmart, Bill Clinton, and more.

Among America's political elite, 5 living presidents, 2 Supreme Court justices, 11 governors, and 100 legislators have ancestors who enslaved Black people.

Decades of evidence reveals that work requirements for food assistance leave people hungry and hurt the economy. But supporting them remains good politics.

The Law and Economics movement was one front in the decades-long advance of a revived free-market ideology that became the new American consensus.

The long history undergirding our harsh bipartisan migration policies.