Biden Administration

Restriction and deportation exist in opposition to the political traditions of the African American freedom struggle.

To control inflation during WWII, the U.S. government resorted to wide-ranging price controls. Unintended consequences may be the reason they aren't used today.

Over the past century, the United States came to rely ever more on economic coercion—with questionable results.

A decade or two ago, opposing NATO expansion to Ukraine was a position espoused by pillars of the American establishment. What happened?

Before the rise of macroeconomics that accompanied World War II, price determination was a central problem of economic thought.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

Old-growth trees in Alaska's Tongass National Forest are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change.

Extending that compassion today could reverse past wrongs.

Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.

Lawmakers are undoing the worst parts of 1980s drug legislation, but they have forgotten its ties to immigration enforcement.

An underexamined aspect of Manchin’s pro-business positions in the Senate is his early membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council.

During the 1840s, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists.

The Haitian migrant crisis is the latest stage in a decades-long legacy of mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.

American immigration policy towards Haitians has been cruel for decades.

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.

A new documentary goes inside the battles that have riven the institution and shaped the historical legacy of the attack.

History offers a guide for why the American project in Afghanistan went wrong — and for the future of foreign engagement in the country.

Vaccines against smallpox during the Revolutionary War are one example of how mandates have protected the health of Americans for more than two centuries.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

Those who claim that vaccine resistance is an expression of liberty are historically illiterate.

Take any major American city and you’re likely to find a historically Black neighborhood demolished, or cut off from the rest of the city by a highway.

Making sense of current fights over a word we borrowed from the French long ago.

The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades.

The history of rural electrification demonstrates why vital public utilities cannot be left to the machinations of the market.

After the assassination of the Haitian president, the U.S. should avoid old patterns of interference.

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said America faces an economic crisis fifty years in the making. But how can we name the long crisis, much less explain it?

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.

If the Biden administration wants to address migration, it must recognize U.S. complicity in Guatemala’s problems.

The famed economist’s theories were embraced by Beltway power brokers in both parties. Finally, a Democratic president is turning the page on a legacy of ruin.