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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.

What the troubled history of telecommuting tells us about its future.

Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.

The “gentrification-industrial complex” isn’t who anti-growth progressives think it is.

This op-ed celebrates the life and legacy of economist, attorney, and civil rights advocate Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander.

There’s no reason we can’t have universal childcare that’s wildly popular and provides high-quality care — in fact, during World War II, we did.

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.

On the racial wealth gap.

A history of the United States shifting the financial burden of emancipation onto enslaved people.

There is a strong economic case for raising taxes on the rich to help repair public finances following the pandemic.

What the failed Southern labor movement teaches us about the rightward shift in US politics.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

The regulatory reforms of the railroad and trucking industries are models for evidence-based, bipartisan policymaking.

The cosmic delusions of Elon Musk and Wernher von Braun.

Socialised investment and the spectre of full employment.

A number of recent books blame the rise of neoliberalism on economists. But the evidence suggests it is still capital that rules.

How difficult was it to obtain artificial light before the 19th century? Well...

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

Uniting for better wages and working conditions, a remarkably diverse coalition of laborers faced off against agribusiness.