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For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.

The men who made the cars could not afford to buy them.

Joe Biden was once a New Deal Democrat. Then he “evolved” and starting backing decades of Republican plans to cut Medicare and Social Security.

A new book argues that US history has been a struggle between monopoly and democracy, but fails to address class and labor when decoding inequality.

The ‘margarine wars’ explain the 19th-century struggle to regulate food.

Starting in the 1970s, groups like MOVE and Seeds of Wisdom have fought for the decolonization of urban space.

A new book, "Franchise," explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.

In good ways and bad, the Golden Arches have always loomed large in the African American experience.

Neoliberals refashioned the idea of freedom by tying it to the free market, and turning it into a weapon to be used against anticolonial projects worldwide.

The American method of high-risk, potentially high-reward investments has fueled innovation from New England whaling ventures to Silicon Valley start-ups.

“Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.

In the Great Depression, Borden sought a new spokescow to help preserve its traditional agrarian image.

A new museum exhibit shows that you cannot understand the city’s history without understanding its workers.  

Today, we can learn a lot from the popularizing efforts that led to that consensus that Keynesianism leads to and long-lasting economic success.

If labor organizers learned anything from decades of small victories and stubborn failures in the U.S. South, it was that interracial unions were hard work.

In order to understand America, we have to understand the struggles of the black working class.

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today’s critics of neoliberal capitalism.

In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.

It wasn’t simply a static symbol – the “blade” actually moved.

“The country cannot prosper if its cities are decaying.”

Moral thinking about debt has fluctuated throughout U.S. history. Today’s calls for cancellation suggest it may be poised for transformation once again.

Nationalization may seem like an alien idea in the hyper-capitalist United States. But the country has a long history of nationalizing all sorts of industries.

Working-class radicalism once transcended nativist division — and can do so again.

Few people know about the movement to kidnap free black Americans and traffic them into slavery. It's time to change that.

In 2011, Citigroup published a 300-page 200th anniversary commemoration Celebrating the Past, Defining the Future. Is it a past to celebrate?

After 50 years of networked communications, commercial interests have eclipsed the public good.

Normalization of deviance is a useful concept that was developed to explain how the Challenger disaster happened.

On May 10, 1900, the Navy steamship Quito sailed from Brooklyn, New York, to deliver 5,000 tons of corn and seeds to the “starving multitudes” of India.