Money

On Americans’ complicated relationship to taxes, from the colonial period through the Civil War to the tax revolts of the 1980s.

In the 1970s, NOW began to ask hard questions about the women who were no longer "homemakers", displaced from the only role they were thought to need.

Rupert Russell’s new book shows how the financialization of commodity prices worsens volatility and destabilizes geopolitics. It couldn’t be more timely.

For many Crockettes, the job was glamorous, fulfilling, and "almost subversive."

As the HBO series "The Gilded Age" suggests, charity allowed wealthy women to play a visible role in public life. It was also a site of inter-class animosity.

How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.

A cautionary tale about the costs and benefits of public/private partnerships.

During World War II, movie studios went to pains not to alienate the Nazis.

A review of three new books that in various ways track the rise of the "Professional Managerial Class."

Basic healthcare in the 20th Century greatly impacted the way that the drug business currently operates in the United States.

Since the mid-19th century, manufacturers have marketed guns to white men, especially young ones.

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

Smudging state–industry distinctions and retelling conventional narratives.

After abandoning its working-class roots, the news business is in a death spiral as ordinary Americans reject it in growing numbers.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Unintended consequences may be the reason they aren't used today.

The music industry is thriving — but it’s not always trickling down to artists.

Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.

The Panamanian garment worker turned labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonial activist advocated for US and African workers amid a Cold War freeze.

These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.

How the unsustainable growth of the container ship industry led to the supply chain crisis.

84 years ago this week, this Mexican American labor organizer led one of the largest strikes in Texas history—and was arrested and blacklisted for her trouble.

Political scientist Adolph Reed Jr. discusses his new memoir.

Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits.

The Lehman Trilogy proposes that the downfall of a financial dynasty is enough to tell the economic and political history of America.

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

The man who introduced mesmerism to the US was a slave-owner from Guadeloupe, where planters were experimenting with “magnetizing” their enslaved people.

World War I saw the availability of potash plummet, while its price doubled. The US found this critical component for multiple industries in Pacific kelp.

The increasingly militant right supports the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.

Before the Civil War, US activists sought to combat slavery through sugar boycotts. Instead, consumption grew.