consolidation

As Americans file their taxes this tax season, the Trump administration threatens to unravel the modern fiscal state.

Video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.

From kosher butchers, fruit peddlers, and herring dealers on the Lower East Side to supermarket innovators across the country

Michael Boskin’s volume gives a grim account of the state of federalism today.

Autopsies of a changing publishing industry; frustrations with readers' tastes; and sympathies for poets and authors drawn to commercially hopeless genres.

Film and television writers face an existential threat.

Maybe what we need is not just a new form of poultry farming but a complete revolution in how we relate to meat.

Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.

If studios can again harness the income from exhibition, we may see a return of traditional vertical integration.

A new book explains why Americans know so little about other countries.

In both versions of this question, the assumption is that there’s a pure history out there somewhere, perhaps with answers in the appendix.

The US government broke up AT&T's monopoly over the telecom industry through an antitrust case in 1984, leading to a transformation of communication.

The USDA has become an inefficient monster that often promotes products that are bad for consumers and the environment. Let’s replace it with a Department of Food.

The men who made the cars could not afford to buy them.

To fix things, we must acknowledge the nature of the problem.

How a New Deal senator’s anti-monopoly investigations changed American business.

How the ’60s counterculture gave birth to personal computers and the vast tech industry that builds and sells them.

Jeffrey Conner has collected over 1,000 headbadges from old bicycles.

The history of the L.A. Times.