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In the 1920s, electricity monopolies survived an antitrust investigation because they had won over the public.

How the gun became a cultural icon—and unmade America.

Here’s why they are still fighting.

Turns out you can tame inflation without triggering a recession. Will the Federal Reserve accept the good news?

The environmental crisis isn’t the result of the “tragedy of the commons.” It’s the result of the commons’ theft and privatization for profit.

The ongoing UAW strike is reminiscent of early UAW leader Walter Reuther — before the union and Reuther himself downsized their ambitions.

And more on how the first "Big Men on Campus," Herbert Hoover, and friends, kept charge in the university, in the workplace, and on the national stage.

From the outset of the American Revolution, a lingering problem that plagued the minds of the Continental Congress dealt with its financing.

President Biden’s SAVE plan isn’t going to rescue the tens of millions of Americans that together owe more than $1.7 trillion.

Who were the Molly Maguires, what did they do, and why did they do it?

A new book on the Clinton presidency reveals how it abandoned a progressive vision for a finance-led agenda for economics and geopolitics.

How American drug companies have exploited government contracts to pursue profit over public interest.

The history of Head Start shows that child poverty is a choice.

Coke knew their plastic would trash the planet…and did it anyway.

Log drivers once steered loose timber on rivers across America before railroad expansion put such shepherds out of work.

An understanding of the history of gunpowder might be able to tell us how and why guns have become so widely accessible in the present-day United States.

Stephanie Mueller´s book sheds light on the percieved death of liberalism and the fear of corporations.

Two books argue that private equity created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts other values, undermining companies and evading the law.

Medical debt has always been part of the history of nonprofit hospitals.

Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.

The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.

And the ways capital took advantage of the state's policing of sexuality.

Looking at the development of cotton as a global commodity helps us understand how capitalism emerged.

The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car.

And why won't all the worst people stop talking about it?

The neoliberal order has been exposed as fraudulent, inefficient, and inequitable. Yet it hardly lies in the dustbin of history.

Today’s strikers are seeking to renew the broadly shared prosperity that earlier UAW work stoppages created.

In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery.

The first UAW strike was in the 1930s. Over the next century, the union amassed significant power while demanding higher wages, better benefits and protections.

By thinking big, Shawn Fain is summoning memories of Walter Reuther and the autoworkers’ union’s finest hour.