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The last from-the-top critique of American overconsumption generated a massive backlash.

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.

New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.

How the predominant ideology of our time survived the pandemic.

One bank's desperation and a state's economic needs undermined regulations protecting consumers.

The economist, along with David Card, was instrumental in changing America’s mind about the minimum wage.

And why stopping the subsidies can help bring it back.

For political reasons, powerful people don’t want the country to pay its bills. History shows all that could go wrong.

Why a policy agenda adopted in the name of entrepreneurs hurt entrepreneurs more than it helped them.

Today's centrists are a hot mess.

John C. Calhoun knew what a strong federal government might do.

The movement launched a generation of leftist activists –and gave them a vision of real change.

How the Tragedy of the Commons theory played out in reality.

William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen’s case for reparations.

A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.

Ideas about working from the employee perspective.

Ariel Ron discusses the rise of the agricultural state in his book, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic.

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.

Computers were supposed to reduce office labor. They accomplished the opposite.

FDR managed inflation during World War II through government policy. Today’s calamities call for a similar approach.

What role should the federal government play in building our infrastructure?

What can the history of the temp-work industry teach us about the precarity of modern working life?

Finally embracing teachers' original vision could help us rethink education after covid.

Its legacy lives on today in the struggles faced by modern miners seeking workers' rights.

By documenting how public debt produced our present nightmare, Destin Jenkins allows us to dream about using public money to mend the ills of our era.

The discovery of oil and gas made members of the Osage Nation among the richest people in the world. But it also made them targets for exploitation.

An analysis of the factors that contributed to NYC's massive financial crisis in the 1970s, and the austere solutions that perpetuated it.

The daring women whose transatlantic journeys challenged gender roles.

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

Far from ushering in a zero-waste world, the switch from returnables to recycling provided cover for the creation of ever more packaging trash.