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The Reagan administration offers a cautionary tale about cost-cutting zeal crashing up against the reality of how government works.

For decades, the NCAA vigorously opposed sports gambling. Now, March Madness is one of the most bet-on sporting events.

On the movement that fought for old-age pensions during the Great Depression.

Tax resistance has long opposed war and empire in North America, and could be a way to resist U.S. funding of violence in Gaza today.

The push to make students into customers incentivizes faculty to seek visibility through controversy rather than through traditional scholarly achievement.

Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.

In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.

Henry Charles Carey is arguably the most influential economist in American history.

What were we thinking, buying so many of these fragile, messy, remarkable ovals? Get used to high egg prices, it was a miracle they were low in the first place.

Why do Americans idealize people who found businesses?

Black Marxist thought emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and the destructiveness of that oppression for all workers.

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Once a nation of movers, the US has lost its “culture of mobility,” a new book argues. That’s been a disaster for housing affordability and economic progress.

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

In 1929, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) railed against the growing trend of recorded music in movie theaters instead of live musicians.

From kosher butchers, fruit peddlers, and herring dealers on the Lower East Side to supermarket innovators across the country

Trump, Xi Jinping, and the tariffs.

You’re passionate. Purpose-driven. Dreaming big, working hard, making it happen. And now they’ve got you where they want you.

The Ordinance, which prioritized cars on the city’s roadways, quickly became the template for the country.

A new theory of the leisure class influencer.

Each age’s premier industrialist has had appalling politics.

Even Trump’s recent assertion that he would use executive action to abolish birthright citizenship has a historical link to the Chinese American experience.

In every generation, charlatans come along with a plan to make education better by spending less money on schools.

As a worker in the 1970s, I looked forward to a Jimmy Carter administration. By the end of his term in office, I felt betrayed.

Karen Silkwood death and smear campaign highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.

Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein has cultivated a reputation as a well-meaning advocate of history education. What does that image mask?

UnitedHealthcare, the health insurer whose CEO was murdered, has spent decades fighting and winning political battles to maintain the for-profit health system.

By universalizing their own economic history, Western observers have used the past to portray African economic culture as backward and inadequate.

Construction workers pooled their wages to erect the first one. Their bosses co-opted the gesture, transforming it into today’s consumer spectacle.