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The U.S. working class is tremendously diverse — and growing in strength.

The early history of American arms trading is missing from most of the scholarship on guns.

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.

The ugly roots of the "school choice" movement.

All top 1 percent income growth after 2000 came from ownership of capital.

Trump's break with tradition may be good or bad, but it's definitely different.

Fast food did not just find its way to low-income neighborhoods. It was brought there by the federal government.

Why are Georgia peaches so iconic? The answer has a lot to do with slavery — its end and a need for the South to rebrand itself.

The rise of public education in America.

The iconic retail giant turned thrift into profit, but couldn’t keep pace with modern consumer culture.

Instead of boosting the American Dream, policies encouraging homeownership exacerbate inequality.

Why the policies of the Federal Reserve were a central focus for the civil rights movement.

President Trump's tax plan may be "great", but it will likely not be truly transformative.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

We often forget that Nixon took decidely liberal stances on welfare, healthcare, and universal basic income.

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.

The roots of the student debt crisis are neither economic nor financial in origin, but rather social.

The roots of inequality run a lot deeper than is often acknowledged.

Trump University follows a long line of for-profit schools that have faced accusations of dishonesty.

For several decades, the term was a fixture of newspaper headlines and campaign speeches. Then something changed.

You can thank her for your retirement benefits.

Noam Maggor’s new book captures how it took both sides of the American continent to revitalize the economy after the Civil War.

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

William Wrigley, Jr. started selling soap and became a prodigy of consumerism.

Trump has echoed the NAFTA policy of his politically upstart forbearers—mostly.

The nation's first "colorblind" tax set the stage for over two centuries of systematic consolidation of white racial interests.

For nearly a century, American tax policy has privileged the investor class and advanced the accumulation of white wealth.