Mehrsa Baradaran

A review of "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap."

Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.

On the mechanics of Wall Street’s influence on key institutions of American democracy, from the New Deal to today.

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.

White families quickly recuperated financial losses after the Civil War, then created a Jim Crow credit system.