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A painting of an old gas station with modern police units in the forefront.

Organized Plunder

In the absence of tax dollars, American cities like Baltimore are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.
by Elias Rodriques, Clinton Williamson via The New Inquiry on July 27, 2022
Los Angeles at dusk.

The Politics of Concrete

Infrastructural projects should be understood in terms of whose lives they make more livable—and the futures they enable or foreclose.
by David Helps via Protean on July 21, 2022
Black and white photo of Ishmael Reed as a child in Willert Park Courts, 1943.

The Buffalo I Knew

The city is at a crossroads. Which path will it take?
by Ishmael Reed via New York Review of Books on July 9, 2022
Black and white photo of Dennis Kucinich speaking, with a Cleveland flag next to him.

When the Mob Tried to Whack Dennis Kucinich

31-year-old Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich took a stand against the sale of his city’s publicly owned electric utility. And he almost paid for it with his life.
by Timothy M. Gill via Jacobin on June 6, 2022
Aerial photograph of San Francisco, 1906.

How Private Capital Strangled Our Cities

By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.
by Samuel Zipp via The Nation on January 4, 2022
Black and white photograph of Harold Washington, 1980s.

A 1980s Blueprint on How to Be a Leader

A new film shows how Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, stood up to a majority-white city council to push through infrastructure improvements for all.
by Brentin Mock via CityLab on January 3, 2022
Rural front lawn with a Trump sign.
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Our Urban/Rural Political Divide is Both New — And Decades In The Making

Policies dating to the 1930s have helped shape the conflict defining today’s politics.
by Guian McKee via Made By History on October 8, 2021
Newark protesters and National Guard

A Warning Ignored

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.
by Jelani Cobb via New York Review of Books on July 29, 2021
Mitch McConnell
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The Fissure Between Republicans and Business is Less Surprising Than it Seems

Business groups have always worked with both parties to support globalization and free trade.
by Jennifer Delton via Made By History on June 7, 2021
A mural advertising the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay.
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Sports Gambling Could Be the Pandemic’s Biggest Winner

But it probably won’t be the savior some expect.
by Jonathan D. Cohen via Made By History on February 5, 2021
A car being made in a car factory

Talking About Auto Work Means Talking About Constant, Brutal Violence

It's remembered as one of the best industrial jobs a worker could get in postwar America. Less remembered is how brutal life on the factory floor was – and still is.
by Jeremy Milloy, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on October 23, 2020
A picture of Boston being modernized through urban development, construction is happening on several buildings.

How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?

A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on October 19, 2020

The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility

Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.
by Rick Perlstein via The Nation on March 17, 2020

Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.
by Adaner Usmani, Jacobin via Jacobin on March 17, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

Samuel Freedman rereads 1975's "Blue-Collar Aristocrats."
by Samuel G. Freedman via Literary Hub on January 30, 2020

American Bottom

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on January 23, 2020

How the Labor Movement Built New York

A new museum exhibit shows that you cannot understand the city’s history without understanding its workers.  
by Nick Juravich via The Nation on December 10, 2019

Life Under the Algorithm

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.
by Gabriel Winant via The New Republic on December 4, 2019
Prison cells

The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration

Everything you knew about mass incarceration is wrong.
by John Clegg, Adaner Usmani via Catalyst on September 1, 2019

State of the Unions

What happened to America’s labor movement?
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on August 26, 2019
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Why The Racial Wealth Gap Persists, More Than 150 Years After Emancipation

When one system of economic oppression collapsed, new ones were created to fill the void.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via Made By History on June 19, 2019
Cars in the rubble of a burned out building in New York in the 1970s.

Fiscal Fright in NYC

A review of Kim Phillips-Fein’s "Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics."
by Michael R. Glass via The Metropole on May 15, 2019

All Stick No Carrot: Racism, Property Tax Assessments, and Neoliberalism Post 1945 Chicago

Black homeowners have been an oft ignored actor in metropolitan history despite playing a central role.
via The Metropole on May 9, 2019
Frank Rizzo

Frank Rizzo and the Making of Modern American Politics

How Rizzo's blue-collar populism helped him survive his tumultuous first term as mayor.
by Timothy Lombardo via Tropics of Meta on October 16, 2018

Making Philly a Blue-Collar City

Sports, politics, and civic identity in modern Philadelphia.
by Timothy Lombardo via Sport in American History on September 6, 2018
A row of wood frame houses in an African American neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. (Credit: Marion S. Trikosko, Library of Congress)

Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States

We must understand America's history of inequality to confront the racial wealth gap.
by Kasturi DasGupta via Black Perspectives on November 30, 2017

The Rage of White Folk

How the silent majority became a loud and angry minority.
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on September 27, 2017

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Mass Incarceration

The rise​ of mass incarceration in the early 1970s was fueled by white fear of black crime. But the fear of crime wasn’t confined to whites.
by Adam Shatz via London Review of Books on May 4, 2017

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