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The Uses and Abuses of 'Neoliberalism'

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?
by Daniel T. Rodgers via Dissent on December 13, 2017

Puerto Rico Syllabus

Essential tools for critical thinking about the Puerto Rican debt crisis.
by Marisol LeBrón, Yarimar Bonilla, Sarah Molinari via Puerto Rico Syllabus on September 27, 2017

How Puerto Rico Recovered Before

The island’s New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.
by Kate Aronoff via In These Times on September 26, 2017

Why Would Anyone In Puerto Rico Want A Hurricane? Because Someone Will Get Rich.

How tax breaks and a quasi-colonial status make the island vulnerable to disasters.
by Yarimar Bonilla via Washington Post on September 22, 2017

Puerto Rico’s Long Fall from ‘Shining Star’ to The ‘Greece’ of The Caribbean

Puerto Rico's financial situation could make it the "next Greece."
by Pedro Caban via The Conversation on July 12, 2015
Columbia University building shrouded in darkness.

In the Hallowed Place Where There’s Only Darkness

Columbia University as security state.
by Ellen Schrecker, Nina Berman via VQR on July 10, 2025
Hakeem Jeffries with a sign that reads "Hands off Medicaid and SNAP"
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The Historic Dangers of Slashing Medicaid Funding

Medicaid has always been fiercely contested political terrain, and past cuts have had disastrous human costs.
by Ben Zdencanovic via Made By History on May 6, 2025
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his aide Roy Cohn.

Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy.
by Ellen Schrecker via The Nation on April 3, 2025
Floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Regime Change in the West?

Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.
by Perry Anderson via London Review of Books on March 25, 2025
Photograph of Benito Mussolini

Gold and Brown

Libertarianism, fascism, and democracy.
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on February 10, 2025
President Jimmy Carter seated at desk in Oval Office, hands steepled.

Jimmy Carter Held the Door Open for Neoliberalism

His unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor.
by Sean T. Byrnes via Jacobin on December 29, 2024

"It's the Economy, Stupid" is Never Just About the Economy

Can the Clinton campaign slogan chart a path forward for Democrats? Its history tells another story.
by Jacob Rosenberg via Mother Jones on December 12, 2024
A view of Wall Street and Federal Hall in the Financial District in New York City.

In the 1970s, the Left Put a Good Crisis to Waste

In "Counterrevolution," Melinda Cooper reads the 1970s economic crisis as an elite revolt rather than proof of the New Deal order’s unsustainability.
by Scott Aquanno, Stephen Maher via Jacobin on October 24, 2024
The gym and auditorium at Schenley High School in Pittsburgh, built just before the school closed in 2008.

What Abandoned Schools Can Teach Us

Empty chairs, empty tables, and the dismantling of the American Dream.
by Matthew Christopher via Atlas Obscura on September 13, 2024

Friends and Enemies

Marty Peretz and the travails of American liberalism.
by Jeet Heer via The Nation on May 14, 2024
Smoke pours from La Moneda, the Chilean presidential palace, during the military coup.

50 Years After “the Other 9/11”: Remembering the Chilean Coup

Some personal reflections on history, memory, and the survival of democracies.
by Ariel Dorfman via The Nation on September 11, 2023
Black and White image of two of Co-op City's monumental towers.

A City Within A City

Robert Moses' final project, Co-op City, both reflected and defied major trends in New York City.
by Katie Uva via The Metropole on November 9, 2022
Joe Biden signing a document
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Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Exposes Our Allergy to Taxes

The rise of a new tax politics has made it harder to address our problems, and now it threatens democracy, too.
by Molly Michelmore via Made By History on August 19, 2022
FDR signing a bill into law.

On Economics And Democracy

High unemployment is extremely dangerous.
by Zachary D. Carter via In The Long Run on July 29, 2022
The Detroit Renewable Power waste incinerator

Dire Straits

A new history of Detroit’s struggles for clean air and water argues that municipal debt and austerity have furthered an ongoing environmental catastrophe.
by Scott Wasserman Stern via New York Review of Books on June 2, 2022
Book cover for Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage," showing a photo of incarcerated men speaking to the media.

How Rikers Island Made New York

In “Captives,” former Rikers detainee Jarrod Shanahan traces the history of New York City’s sprawling jail complex, and its centrality to brutal class struggle.
by Jarrod Shanahan, Alana Mohamed via Hell Gate on May 16, 2022
The Rikers Island docks.

The Long Crisis on Rikers Island

A new book about Rikers Island is essentially a labor history, revealing how jail guards seized control from managers, politicians, and judges.
by Brendan O'Connor via The Baffler on May 12, 2022
An illustration of broken and bloody pieces representing awareness of Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

Traumatic Monologues

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.
by Melanie K. Yazzie via The Baffler on September 6, 2021
Alexander Hamilton on the ten dollar bill

What We Still Get Wrong About Alexander Hamilton

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.
by Michael Busch, Christian Parenti via Boston Review on December 14, 2020

From Keynes to the Keynesians

Socialised investment and the spectre of full employment.
by Tim Barker via Verso on December 4, 2020
A photo of murder victim Etan Patz.

How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

Stranger danger and the specter of childhood.
by Paul M. Renfro via CrimeReads on May 26, 2020

FDR’s New Deal Worked. We Need Another One.

Claims that the programs adopted in the 1930s lengthened the Great Depression don’t hold up.
by Noah Smith via Bloomberg on May 15, 2020

Why Humanity Will Probably Botch the Next Pandemic, Too

A conversation with Mike Davis about what must be done to combat the COVID-19 pandemic – and all the other monsters still to come.
by Mike Davis, Eric Levitz via Intelligencer on April 30, 2020
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Citibank: Exploiting the Past, Condemning the Future

In 2011, Citigroup published a 300-page 200th anniversary commemoration Celebrating the Past, Defining the Future. Is it a past to celebrate?
by Alan J. Singer via HNN on November 3, 2019
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The Other End of the Telescope

Considering astronomy's history from the shadow of the Arecibo Observatory reveals the discipline's intimate ties to imperialism.
by David Singerman on November 24, 2017
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