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Drawing of a lightbulb illuminating an inventor's laboratory.

The Real Nature of Thomas Edison’s Genius

The inventor did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on October 21, 2019

Amid a Revival of Anti-Monopoly Sentiment, a New Book Traces Its History

Matt Stoller charts the shifts in American attitudes toward corporate consolidation.
by Kyle Sammin via National Review on October 15, 2019
Alan Greenspan holding his right hand up to speak under oath, with an eagle seal on the wall behind him.

When Alan Met Ayn: "Atlas Shrugged" and Our Tanked Economy

We owe at least part of the 2008 financial crisis to Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism.
by Maria Bustillos via Popula on October 11, 2019
Texas oil wells.

Anointed with Oil: Evangelicals and the Petroleum Industry

On the outsized role that Christians have played in the oil business.
by Darren Dochuk, Thomas S. Kidd via The Gospel Coalition on July 16, 2019
Big League Chew’s inaugural package in 1980.

How a Minor League Pitcher Turned a Dugout Conversation Into the Legend That Is Big League Chew

The inventor, who baked the first batch of the iconic gum 40 years ago, talks about the genesis of an American rite of passage.
by Jake Malooley, Rob Nelson via Esquire on July 10, 2019
Ad for Betty Crocker in the Ladies' Home Journal, featuring a recipe for chiffon cake.

The Power of Corporate Interests Over Home Baking

Throughout the early 20th century, food corporations created advertisement campaigns directed at women.
by Maria Dawson via Nursing Clio on May 28, 2019
Image of the front cover of "The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump."

Conservatives Before and After Earth Day

As Republicans denounce climate change as a “hoax” and dismantle the environmental regulatory state they worked to build, we are left to wonder: What happened?
by James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg via Harvard University Press Blog on April 22, 2019

The Innovation Cult

The function of the "innovation" buzzword is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.
by John Patrick Leary via Jacobin on April 16, 2019

When California Went to War Over Eggs

As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony.
by Jessica Gingrich via Smithsonian on April 15, 2019
President Kennedy hands Senator Estes Kefauver the pen he used to sign a bill.

The Greatest Show of Them All

How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.
by Jill Priluck via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 8, 2019

Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.
by Nan Enstad via Boston Review on March 20, 2019

The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.
by Louis Hyman via The Atlantic on March 6, 2019
The poison squad, experimenters that tried poisons and studied their effects, drawn as men in suits striking dramatic poses.

Food Used to Be a Lot More Dangerous

Before the establishment of the modern FDA, anti-regulation attitudes ruled the world of food.
by Whit Taylor, Maki Naro via The Nib on March 4, 2019

From Oil to Oprah: An Oral History of the StairMaster

The untold origin story of an iconic workout machine, told one step at a time.
by Andy Wright via Medium on February 7, 2019
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" book cover

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are undermining personal freedom and corroding democracy.
by Nicholas Carr via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 15, 2019

How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.
by Patrick Radden Keefe via The New Yorker on December 27, 2018

How Big Bonuses for Winning Coaches Became a Tradition in College Football

These bonuses are not a reaction to a multi-billion-dollar market that rewards winning – they are the foundation of it.
by Jasmine E. Harris via The Conversation on December 20, 2018

Atlas Weeps

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on December 12, 2018

Unchecked Power

How monopolies have flourished—and undermined democracy.
by Ganesh Sitaraman via The New Republic on November 29, 2018

The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten By the Public

That's when the public learned that American multinationals were making enormous bribes to politicians in foreign countries.
by David Montero via Longreads on November 20, 2018
Two nurses standing beside a soldiers bed during World War 1.

The Surprising Origins of Kotex Pads

Before the first disposable sanitary napkin hit the mass market, periods were thought of in a much different way.
by Kat Eschner via Smithsonian on November 9, 2018
Massachusetts State House

Civil Rights Without the Supreme Court

Losing the support of the Supreme Court is disappointing, but it need not be the death knell of progress.
by Millington Bergeson-Lockwood via We're History on November 7, 2018
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For Private Prisons, Detaining Immigrants Is Big Business

Today, despite their mixed record, private prison companies are overseeing the vast majority of undocumented migrants.
by Sarah Weiser, Noah Madoff, Anne Checler via Retro Report on October 1, 2018
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A Trusted Pill Turned Deadly. How Tylenol Made a Comeback

How do some companies regain public trust after something goes seriously wrong, while others fail?
via Retro Report on September 16, 2018

How Corporations Won Their Civil Rights

The Court got it right—but it's not a conclusion we should be entirely comfortable with.
by Robert VerBruggen via The American Conservative on July 3, 2018

How Everything On The Internet Became Clickbait

The “Laurel or Yanny?” phenomenon was the logical endpoint of 300 years of American media.
by Kevin Munger via The Outline on May 27, 2018

The Factory That Oreos Built

A new owner for the New York City landmark offers a tasty opportunity to recap a crème-filled history.
by Katherine Martinelli via Smithsonian on May 21, 2018

The History of the Solo Cup, From the South Side to Star Wars

The ubiquitous plastic vessel has come a long way.
by Robert Loerzel via Chicago Magazine on May 17, 2018
Man reading a newspaper and smoking a cigarette in a mid-twentieth century kitchen.

Why the “Golden Age” of Newspapers Was the Exception, Not the Rule

"American journalism is younger than American baseball."
by John Maxwell Hamilton, Heidi Tworek via Nieman Lab on May 2, 2018
Right to work states highlighted on a map.
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The Right to Work Really Means the Right to Work for Less

Why business interests have spent 70+ years crusading for right-to-work laws.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on April 24, 2018
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