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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.

How black freedom benefited poor whites.

A third-generation mill worker pays homage to the controversial industrialist.

Economic analyses of the antebellum era upend the notion that Southern whites were united in their support of slavery.

A look into neocolonialism in modern America.

The U.S. didn't buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land.

A new book asks: Can the surplus of capitalist exploitation be used to aid those on whose backs this surplus is generated?

How much did slave owners pay for antebellum-era policies from Aetna, AIG, and New York Life?

Some historians think Benedict Arnold's treason may well have aided the American cause in the Revolutionary War.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

On the widespread boycotts of British-made goods in the American Colonies.

Elon Musk and the rise of Silicon Valley’s strange trickle-down science.

Columbia professor Richard R. John explains the history of U.S. monopolies and why antimonopoly should not be conflated with antitrust.

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

The story of America's oldest counterfeiters and why the Civil War spurred the Secret Service into hunting them down.

Looking for an easy buck, con artists in the early 1900s infamously "sold" the Brooklyn Bridge to immigrants fresh off the boat.

Richmond was the epicenter of black finance. What happened there explains the decline of black-owned banks across the country.

The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?