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Essential tools for critical thinking about the Puerto Rican debt crisis.

Blame the marketers.

The island’s New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.

Credit reporting companies' immense power and lack of transparency puts consumers at risk.

The practice of “redlining” kept people of color from home loans for decades.

100 years ago, a mail-order retail giant moved swiftly into the brick-and-mortar business, changing it forever.

How tax breaks and a quasi-colonial status make the island vulnerable to disasters.

In an economy based on doing business with strangers, monitoring people's trustworthiness quickly became very profitable.

Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.

Once a cask that held crude, the oil barrel is now mostly an economic concept.

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.