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In neoliberalism, state power is needed to enforce market relations, but the site of that power must be hidden from politics.

How vacations went from being a purview of the rich to an expectation of a rising American middle class.

"Marketcraft" is one of the most important functions for any government.

The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today.

A new study overturns economic orthodoxy and shows that unions reduce inequality.

Twenty years ago, Microsoft tried to eliminate its competition in the race for the internet's future. The government had other ideas.

Is the Baby Boomer generation to blame for America's crumbling roads, galloping income inequality, bitter polarization and dysfunctional government?

A historian looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

The intellectual father of the job guarantee movement saw it as a replacement for the social safety net.

How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support.

Southern segregation, racism and a militarized police meant the plan was destined to fail.

To fight back against corporate power, cities have to cooperate, not compete.

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.