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How Gotham Gave Us Trump

Ever wonder how a lifelong urbanite can resent cities as much as Donald Trump does? First you have to understand ’70s and ’80s New York.
by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on June 30, 2017
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How our Appetite for Cheap Food Drove Rural America to Trump

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.
by Benjamin Davison via Made By History on June 30, 2017
Franklin Roosevelt in front of news microphones.

The Rise and Fall of the Word 'Monopoly' in American Life

For several decades, the term was a fixture of newspaper headlines and campaign speeches. Then something changed.
by Stacy Mitchell via The Atlantic on June 20, 2017

Victorian Era Drones: How Model Trains Transformed from Cutting-Edge to Quaint

Nostalgia and technological innovation paved the way for the rise of model-train giant Lionel.
by Ben Marks via Collectors Weekly on February 1, 2017
Alexander Hamilton

The Hamilton Hustle

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.
by Matt Stoller via The Baffler on January 1, 2017
Political cartoon depicting Standard Oil as an octopus.

When Did Americans Stop Being Antimonopoly?

Columbia professor Richard R. John explains the history of U.S. monopolies and why antimonopoly should not be conflated with antitrust.
by Richard R. John, Asher Schechter via Pro-Market on November 21, 2016

The Internet Should Be a Public Good

The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?
by Ben Tarnoff via Jacobin on August 31, 2016
Two kids eating ice cream

Thanks, Prohibition!

How the Eighteenth Amendment fueled America’s taste for ice cream.
by Rachel Van Bokkem via Perspectives on History on August 8, 2016
Empty plastic bottles to be recycled.
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Cashing In

How big business lies behind early efforts to encourage Americans to recycle.
via BackStory on August 4, 2016
Studio photo of a preacher officiating a wedding, as the best man, flower girls, and ring bearer watch, 1908.
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Goin’ to the Chapel

Before there was Vegas, there was Elkton, Maryland. Let's take a trip to this tiny town and tell the story of its former life as elopement capital of the US.
via BackStory on June 16, 2016
Interactive map (above) and graph (below) showing the canals of the American Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, 1820 to 1860.
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Canals 1820-1890

An interactive map of U.S. canals in the first half of the 19th century.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, Scott Nesbit, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers, Beaumont Smith via American Panorama on December 1, 2015

By Which Melancholy Occurrence: The Disaster Prints of Nathaniel Currier, 1835–1840

Why Americans living in uncertain times bought so many sensational images of shipwrecks and fires.
by Genoa Shepley via Panorama on October 14, 2015
Black family sitting around log cabin, possibly in Florida, 1892.

Plantations Practiced Modern Management

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Scott Berinato via Harvard Business Review on September 1, 2013
A photograph of a Pony Express employee riding a horse.
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Cowboys and Mailmen

Debunking myths about the Pony Express.
via BackStory on December 7, 2012
A man at a Tea Party rally in 2010, dressed in colonial clothes and standing in front of a Don't Treat On Me flag with his fist raised.
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Teed Off

Did the 2010 Tea Party Movement really have anything in common with 1773? What did the history of populism suggest about the Tea Party's future?
via BackStory on May 21, 2010
Trucks and cars moving on the highway

Keep on Truckin’

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Democracy Journal on December 10, 2008
Cubicles

The Moral Life of Cubicles

On the utopian origins of Dilbert's workspace.
by David Franz via The New Atlantis on December 1, 2008
Prescott Bush, Dorothy Bush, and George H. W. Bush at the White House.

How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power

Rumors of a link between Prescott Bush and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. They were right.
by Duncan Campbell via The Guardian on September 25, 2004

Bitter Harvest

The fear and hysteria that led to Japanese interment during World War II was manufactured for corporate profit.
by A. V. Krebs via Washington Post on February 2, 1992

When Big Oil Was "The Great Vampire Squid" Wrapped Around America

Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry.
by Robert Engler via The New Republic on August 29, 1955
A worker assembling an automobile.

Trump Is Tearing Apart the North American Auto Industry

In the 1960s, the Auto Pact deal integrated the US and Canada’s auto sectors. Donald Trump’s trade war will all but guarantee its unraveling.
by Taylor C. Noakes via Jacobin on February 10, 2026
A woman comforting another woman, who has her face planted in a pile of papers.

The Bleak History of the American Work Ethic

In "Make Your Own Job," Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on top of work—and at what cost.
by Nick Juravich via The Nation on January 6, 2026
Jeffrey Epstein and unidentified African soldiers.

Epstein, Israel, and the CIA: How The Iran–Contra Planes Landed at Les Wexner’s Base

Jeffrey Epstein helped Leslie Wexner repurpose the CIA’s Iran–Contra planes from arms smuggling to shipping lingerie.
by Ryan Grim, Harrison Berger, Murtaza Hussein via The American Conservative on December 19, 2025
Aerial view of the Warner Bros studio lot.

Whether Netflix or Paramount Buys Warner Bros., Entertainment Oligopolies are Back

Hollywood has seen this movie before. Entertainment oligopolies are bigger and more anticompetitive than ever.
by Matthew F. Jordan via The Conversation on December 12, 2025
David Rubenstein looks toward the Washington Monument.

When Donald Trump Fired David Rubenstein

The private-equity billionaire spent decades building influence in the capital. Then his philanthropy collided with the president.
by Michael Powell via The Atlantic on December 1, 2025
Sunday Morning in front of the Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, 1811
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Quakers Against Thanksgiving

In colonial America, government “thanksgivings” blurred faith and politics. For Quakers, rejecting them was an act of religious conviction.
by Livia Gershon, Tara Thompson Strauch via JSTOR Daily on November 24, 2025
Illustration of draping a Pizza Hut tarp over the Hammer and Sickle.

Pizzastroika

In 1990, one of the great forgotten acts of American subterfuge unfolded. It involved Pizza Hut.
by Josh Levin, Kelly Jones via Slate on November 13, 2025
An illustration of a Black woman elf in a fantasy setting.

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons & Dragons to Be Racist

The fantastical roots of “scientific racism.”
by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on November 11, 2025
Cursor arrows caught in a spider web.

How the Web Was Lost

The Internet was not meant to suck.
by James Gleick via New York Review of Books on November 11, 2025
Theodore Roosevelt speaking with three reporters.
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The President and the Press Corps

Theodore Roosevelt was the first White House occupant to seek control over how newspapers covered him.
by Jordan Friedman via JSTOR Daily on November 6, 2025
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