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The railroad baron and governor of California was starkly contradictory and infamously disruptive.

The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.

Are New Deal-era redlining maps still the best available tools for understanding the racial wealth gap?

We owe at least part of the 2008 financial crisis to Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism.

A conversation with historian Peter Cole about his recent book, Dockworker Power.

The making of the black working class.

When regulators dictate who grows a cash crop, they can spread the wealth—or help the rich get richer.

On the myths and rituals of the market, the lost radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the rise of neoliberalism.

Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike of 1938.

The GM strike recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce, and workers' willingness to take militant action.

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

While "meds and eds" have powered urban economies, they haven't been the gateway out of poverty that many hoped.

America has already witnessed the largest UBI experiment known to history — the postwar middle-class housewife. And she was utterly miserable.

Biden convinced small-government Republicans to increase spending in the War on Crime.

Over 136,000 GM workers participated in the strike in Flint, Michigan that became known as 'the strike heard round the world.'

Yuppies attract cafes and amenities to gentrifying neighborhoods. They also spark rising rents — and even violence.

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

White families quickly recuperated financial losses after the Civil War, then created a Jim Crow credit system.

Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.

What happened to America’s labor movement?

For generations, Southern white elites have been terrified of poor whites and black workers joining hands.

The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.

The pitfalls and the potential of cryptocurrency are explored in three recent publications.

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.

The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

Beyond the "casualty numbers and bloodshed," a new history takes into account the "social and structural issues" of disability among soldiers and veterans.

A shocking story about the biggest company in the US's most profitable industry.