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"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.

The fourth president tried all kinds of sanctions to open markets, but still ended up in the War of 1812.

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.

Three past conflicts tell a very different story.

Picking Silicon Valley’s future winners is still, some six decades since the birth of modern venture capital, more art than science.

In 1932, Hellen Keller offered some advice for the “perplexed businessman.”

African Americans are better off in many ways, but are still disadvantaged by racial inequality.

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.

Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.

The fight against 'Jim Crow jobs' took blood, sweat, tears, and boycotts.

The financial world is a theatrical production, abundantly lubricated by that magical elixir of illusionists: confidence.

Reveal’s analysis of mortgage data found evidence of modern-day redlining in 61 metro areas across the country.

White farmers, threatened by Japanese-Americans' success, played a critical role in the creation of internment camps.

American unions have struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.

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The Super Bowl might be a capitalist bonanza — but its creation was the ultimate socialist act.

Despite his extreme rhetoric, Trump is merely the latest in a long line of U.S. leaders unwilling to pony up for global environmental accords.

Unlike many economists today, they questioned fundamental social structure.

Undermining public education will exacerbate polarization and mistrust.

A crucial new work of generational analysis explores how society turned millennials into human capital.

An 18th-century novel explores how American society handles capitalism's collateral damage — and who deserves a second chance.

For all of its strengths, Richard Rothstein’s new book does not account for the central role capitalism played in segregating America's cities.

The government’s failure to fully invest in higher education created our current crisis.

Eight decades after the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, corporate profits are still being valued more than workers' lives.

Taxation is at the heart of any serious economic growth policy.

A short history puts contemporary anti-monopoly movements in context.

FCC regulations have long promoted innovation that benefits consumers, not stifled it.

The nostalgia of some conservatives hearkens back to a different—and irretrievable—economic time.

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?

How today's media landscape was shaped by a 1920s decision to privilege corporate broadcasters over noncommercial ones.