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Eight decades after the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire, corporate profits are still being valued more than workers' lives.

Taxation is at the heart of any serious economic growth policy.

A short history puts contemporary anti-monopoly movements in context.

FCC regulations have long promoted innovation that benefits consumers, not stifled it.

The nostalgia of some conservatives hearkens back to a different—and irretrievable—economic time.

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?

How today's media landscape was shaped by a 1920s decision to privilege corporate broadcasters over noncommercial ones.

The myth of the “dependent” poor.

Today’s Republicans would have fit right into Herbert Hoover’s administration.

The nation's first African-American president was a disaster for black wealth.

The scholar who coined the phrase "net neutrality" explains why the agency's latest move represents such a radical break.

America’s long history of predatory lending.

How did truckers nudge the American economy toward deregulation?

We must understand America's history of inequality to confront the racial wealth gap.

Republicans are again sprinting toward an economic cliff.

In 1948, the GOP passed the third biggest tax cut in U.S. history. In the next election, they learned the devil is in the details.

Following wartime opportunities west, seven million “Rosie the Riveters” found more than just jobs when they reached California.

Donald Trump's rise to power was fueled by the profits of predatory real estate ventures.

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives.

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

Oil’s rise was as dependent on the old as much as the new. The industry also benefited from changes in agriculture.

“I am frightened by the proportions of my prosperity,” Twain said. “It seems to me that whatever I touch turns to gold.”

The godfather of supply-side economics is largely discredited by his peers, but revered by Trump and the GOP.

An oral history of the biggest one-day stock market drop in history.

In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?

The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark.

Centuries of economic inequality have left Southern politics ripe for insurgent outsiders.

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.

Fears about trade prompted the decision to make Puerto Rico a colony.