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A seven-point memo proposing control of the global insulin market.

Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today.

How the myth of the overburdened white taxpayer was made.

This plight dates back to the era of slavery.

Heavy industry once drove Pittsburgh’s economy. Now health care does—but without the same hard-won benefits.

A welfare state doesn't distort the market; it just makes government aid fairer.

The history of the Atlantic slave trade after the American Revolution is a story of sustained efforts to suppress it even as demand for slaves increased.

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."

Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.

On deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.

Before beanie babies and Pogs, small rectangles of cardboard were the errant investments of a stratifying American society.

Redlining itself cannot explain this persistence of inequality in America's cities.

Technology can break down, but just as often with government tech, glitches are rooted in policy failures.

History shows that boosting the minimum wage leads to consumer spending.

1915 marked the beginning of the largest domestic migration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans began relocating north.

Who needs a public health system when sickness is a personal failure?

Fannie Lou Hamer is among the sharecroppers interviewed in this unauthorized documentary about the plantation of Dixiecrat James Eastland.

When Alfred Winslow Jones created the hedge fund in 1949, the key to its approach was short sales, a practice the GameStop mess returned to public infamy.

His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.

Cash transfers are an efficient response to the Covid-19 crisis, but UBI is a radical transformation of how states conceptualise and provide for people’s needs.

But it probably won’t be the savior some expect.

The vision of feminist labor organizing that guided the women’s white-collar organizing project 9to5 should still be our north star.

As far back as WWI, militant unions like the International Ladies’ Garment Workers radicalized the campaign for health care and came within an inch of victory.

It's a sign of disrespect.

Oil companies like to point to the demise of the whaling industry as an example of market-based energy solutions. The reality is much more complicated.

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.

Over the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

In our own era of uncontrolled working hours, controlling our time is a vision of freedom worth capturing.

Devon Price wonders why we equate sloth with evil.

How an argument for segregated schools became a rallying cry for privatizing public education.