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The Jones Act, the Obscure 1920 Shipping Regulation Strangling Puerto Rico

Protectionism and exploitation at its worst.

by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on September 27, 2017

Trump Is A 19th-Century President Facing 21st-Century Problems

His hands-off approach to policy-making and moral leadership hearkens back to much earlier times.

by Julia Azari via FiveThirtyEight on August 28, 2017

Cartoon silhouettes of elongated business people in suits

Business as Usual: The Long History of Corporate Personhood

The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation’s most powerful corporations from President Trump’s now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on August 23, 2017

Puerto Rico’s Long Fall from ‘Shining Star’ to The ‘Greece’ of The Caribbean

Puerto Rico's financial situation could make it the "next Greece."

by Pedro Caban via The Conversation on July 12, 2015

Men standing outside a store with a sign supporting the WPA in the window.

The Voluntarism Fantasy

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.

by Mike Konczal via Democracy Journal on March 17, 2014

Photograph of cars bumper to bumper on a highway, USA (year unknown, likely during 1970s energy crisis)

How Congress Planned To Solve The 1970s Energy Crisis

Representative Mo Udall's ambitious strategy to wean the United States off fossil fuels by the year 2000.

by Morris K. Udall via The New Republic on June 16, 1973

Book cover of "Let the Glory Out: My South and its Politics" by Al Gore

The Chaotic Politics of the South

For three quarters of a century the South was the geographic base of Democratic Presidential hopes.

by C. Vann Woodward via New York Review of Books on December 14, 1972

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