Money

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.

A recent biography of Vince McMahon presents him as an entertainment tycoon who changed culture and politics. The real story is as banal as it is brutal.

“Gun Country” chronicles the transformation of guns from tangible weapons to ideological ammunition during the Cold War.

A 1945 union vs. studios battle set off broad right-wing hysteria—its lessons should resonate today.

During the Great Depression, St. Louis's Funsten Nut Factory was racially divided. But Black workers went on strike — and got their white coworkers to join them.

The new UAW faces new challenges, but bears some distinct resemblances to the old.

Friedman's viewpoint went far deeper and has been more lasting than the politics of 1970.

Who is the father of American capitalism?

The greatest challenge presented by modern corporations, small as well as large, involves purpose.

American thinkers consider what the already occupied West could fund.

In the 1920s, electricity monopolies survived an antitrust investigation because they had won over the public.

How the gun became a cultural icon—and unmade America.

Here’s why they are still fighting.

Turns out you can tame inflation without triggering a recession. Will the Federal Reserve accept the good news?

The environmental crisis isn’t the result of the “tragedy of the commons.” It’s the result of the commons’ theft and privatization for profit.

From the outset of the American Revolution, a lingering problem that plagued the minds of the Continental Congress dealt with its financing.

President Biden’s SAVE plan isn’t going to rescue the tens of millions of Americans that together owe more than $1.7 trillion.

Who were the Molly Maguires, what did they do, and why did they do it?

A new book on the Clinton presidency reveals how it abandoned a progressive vision for a finance-led agenda for economics and geopolitics.

How American drug companies have exploited government contracts to pursue profit over public interest.

The history of Head Start shows that child poverty is a choice.

Coke knew their plastic would trash the planet…and did it anyway.

Log drivers once steered loose timber on rivers across America before railroad expansion put such shepherds out of work.

An understanding of the history of gunpowder might be able to tell us how and why guns have become so widely accessible in the present-day United States.

Two books argue that private equity created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts other values, undermining companies and evading the law.

Medical debt has always been part of the history of nonprofit hospitals.

Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.

The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.

And the ways capital took advantage of the state's policing of sexuality.