Money

The era of audience exploitation began in earnest thanks in large part to the experiments of Dr. Frank Stanton in the 1930s.

Instead of highlighting the glories of capitalism, supermarkets expose the inequalities it creates.

The long legacy of structural racism in the New Deal-era housing market.

Why business interests have spent 70+ years crusading for right-to-work laws.

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.

Posing as ‘John Barron,’ he claimed he owned most of his father’s real estate empire.

Black Americans have just one-tenth of the wealth of white Americans, and the difference in home values is a big part of the problem.

In many cities, maps of mortgage approvals and home values in black neighborhoods look as they did before the law was passed.

In 1968, the Fair Housing Act made it illegal to discriminate in housing. So why are neighborhoods still so segregated?

Trump says Amazon is scamming the USPS. But its low shipping rates were a game changer for rural America.

Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond.

How a backer of the American Revolution unwittingly shaped the way we count money.

The 2018 West Virginia teachers’ strike in historical perspective.

A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls.

How Democrats like Zell Miller and Bill Clinton exacerbated inequality in education

It’s a history lesson worth remembering: The exploitation of immigrant workers only encourages more—and worse—abuse.

The notorious union-busting agency has resurfaced in a telecommunications labor dispute, showing how it's adapted to the 21st century.

A review of "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap."

Gil Scott-Heron's searing 1970 commentary on the nation's economic priorities.

During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?

The GOP was once the party of protectionism, while the Democrats led the way on free trade.

Unfortunately, there’s not an unlimited amount of daylight that we can squeeze out of our clocks.

These women came ready to fight.

How much monopoly is too much monopoly?

From William McKinley to Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump has plenty of precedent if he's looking for it.

"Masterless Men" shows how the antebellum political economy made poor southern whites into a volatile, and potentially disruptive, class.

The fourth president tried all kinds of sanctions to open markets, but still ended up in the War of 1812.

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.

Three past conflicts tell a very different story.

In 1932, Hellen Keller offered some advice for the “perplexed businessman.”