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What Would the Socialist Who Created the Hedge Fund Think of the GameStop Mess?

When Alfred Winslow Jones created the hedge fund in 1949, the key to its approach was short sales, a practice the GameStop mess returned to public infamy.
by David Huyssen via Los Angeles Times on February 12, 2021
Demonstrators at the 1970 Hardhat Riot in New York City.

Backlash Forever

It’s time to abandon the assumption that workers have a “natural” home on the center-left.
by Gabriel Winant via Dissent on February 1, 2021
Artistic rendering of a sheet of newspaper with people crossed out, flowing above people working menial jobs whose heads are also crossed out, working next to signs that read "Sorry."

On Atonement

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.
by Alexandria Neason via Columbia Journalism Review on January 28, 2021

On the Insidious ‘Laziness Lie’ at the Heart of the American Myth

Devon Price wonders why we equate sloth with evil.
by Devon Price via Literary Hub on January 6, 2021
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Economic Inequality

Histories of wealth disparity in the US, those who have challenged it, and those who have exploited it.

Footing the COVID-19 Bill: Economic Case for Tax Hike on Wealthy

There is a strong economic case for raising taxes on the rich to help repair public finances following the pandemic.
by David Hope, Julian Limberg via The Conversation on December 16, 2020
A newsboy holding a bag of papers.

Popular Journalism’s Day in ‘The Sun’

The penny press of the nineteenth century was a revolution in newspapers—and is a salutary reminder of lost ties between reporters and readers.
by Batya Ungar-Sargon via New York Review of Books on December 15, 2020
A courtroom in Milwaukee, 1930.

How Did We End Up With Our Current Public Defender System?

Without a more fundamental transformation of criminal law, public defenders often provide only a limited form of equality and fairness before the law.
by Matthew Clair via The Nation on December 14, 2020
Thorstein Veblen

The Gadfly of American Plutocracy

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.
by Simon Torracinta via Boston Review on November 30, 2020
Elegant Boardroom

The Limits of Telecommuting

Perhaps the lesson to take from this year of living online is not about making better technology. It’s about recognizing technology’s limits.
by Margaret O'Mara via Public Books on November 18, 2020
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Born With Two Strikes

How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition.
by Toluse Olorunnipa, Griff Witte via Washington Post on October 8, 2020

Thirty Glorious Years

Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?
by Jonathan Hopkin via Aeon on October 2, 2020
1912 political cartoon of the Aldrich Plan depicted as an octopus with tentacles on a bank, a factory, and a farm while spitting coins into the NYSC.

A Popular History of the Fed

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.
by Noam Maggor, Anton Jäger via Phenomenal World on October 1, 2020
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City, Island

What does the way we mourn, remember, and care for our dead say about us?
by Alexandra Marvar via The Believer on October 1, 2020

Cousins Like Us: Black Lives and John Maynard Keynes

Reflections on the famous economist through the prism of the author's own mixed-race family.
by Taylor Beck via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 4, 2020

We Should Still Defund the Police

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on August 14, 2020
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Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child-Care Crisis

The policy roots of today’s childcare crisis.
by Anna K. Danziger Halperin via Made By History on August 6, 2020

How Rigid is the Middle Class in the US, Really?

Exploring the economic mobility of 11,172 middle class families over a 50-year period.
by Amber Thomas, Alice Feng via The Pudding on August 1, 2020

The Depression-Era Book That Wanted to Cancel the Rent

“Modern Housing,” by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.
by Nora Caplan-Bricker via The New Yorker on July 18, 2020
A photo of a woman wearing a mask standing on a subway platform in Times Square.

Rethinking the Solution to New York’s Fiscal Crisis

We are at the end of an era, as choices made in the 1970s have created a society that seems unable to cope with a crisis such as that posed by the coronavirus.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via New York Review of Books on July 16, 2020

The Surprising Cross-Racial Saga of Modern Wealth Inequality

Why the “racial wealth gap” fails to explain economic inequality in black and white America.
by Adolph Reed Jr. via The New Republic on June 29, 2020
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The Great Upheaval of 1877 Sheds Light on Today’s Protests

Spontaneous strikes led by the working class in 1877 resulted in violent clashes with police.
by Richard Schneirov via HNN on June 21, 2020
A group of seven black sharecroppers stand by the road.

Black Americans, Crucial Workers in Crises, Emerge Worse Off – Not Better

In many national crises, black Americans have been essential workers – but serving in crucial roles has not resulted in economic equality.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via The Conversation on June 17, 2020
A street of brick storefronts in Cumberland, Kentucky.

Appalachian Hillsides as Black Ecologies: Housing, Memory, and The Sanctified Hill Disaster of 1972

A landslide that exposed racial inequalities embedded in Appalachian communities.
by Jillean McCommons via Black Perspectives on June 16, 2020

Debt and the Underdevelopment of Black America

How municipal debt contributed to the development of white America and underdevelopment of Black America.
by Destin Jenkins via Just Money on June 15, 2020
A sign that reads "We Want White Tenants in Our White Community." Two American flags are on top of the sign.

Highway Robbery

How Detroit cops and courts steer segregation and drive incarceration.
by Jade Chowning, Erin Keith, Geoff Leonard via ArcGIS StoryMaps on June 8, 2020
Dredging Vessel in the water

Dredging Up the Past

A shoreline expert writes about dredging vessels, Louisiana, neoliberalism, and her lifelong quest to save her hometown from the sea.
by Megan Milliken Biven via Current Affairs on May 25, 2020
A group of men gather at a headquarters of the Communist Party USA following a protest demanding pay raise and an end to police brutality, US, circa 1920. Hirz / Archive Photos / Getty

How McCarthyism and the Red Scare Hurt the Black Freedom Struggle

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.
by Paul Heideman via Jacobin on May 21, 2020

COVID-19 and the Color Line

Due to racist policies, Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis.
by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jamala Rogers, Jason Q. Purnell via Boston Review on April 30, 2020

Great American Radicals: How Would Dorothy Day Vote in 2020?

A biographer of Day talks about what we can learn from the iconic activist.
by Jonny Diamond, John Loughery via Literary Hub on March 17, 2020
Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass Railed Against Economic Inequality

Never-before-transcribed articles from Frederick Douglass’ Paper denounce capitalism and economic inequality.
by Matthew Karp, Frederick Douglass via Jacobin on February 20, 2020
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