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Jeff Bezos

“What We Have is Capture of the Regulators’ Minds, A Much More Sophisticated Form of Capture Than Putting Money in Their Pockets”

How every major industry and marketplace in America came to be controlled by a single, monolithic player.
by Barry C. Lynn, Asher Schechter via Pro-Market on March 26, 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

Our Mis-Leading Indicators

How statistical data came to rule public policy.
by Stephen Macekura via Public Books on September 15, 2014

The Twin Insurgency

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.
by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on June 15, 2014
Sign saying "WHIP INFLATION NOW" with image of Uncle Sam whipping a personification of inflation

The Rise of Inflation

Understanding how inflation came to be a mainstay in modern economics.
by Rebecca L. Spang via Cabinet on June 14, 2013
Income tax form

Tax Time

Why we pay.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on November 19, 2012

The History of Health Care Spending in 7 Graphs

Health care spending grew more slowly in the past two years than it has in over five decades.
via Washington Post on January 9, 2012

How Poverty Was, and Was Not, Pictured Before the Civil War

Images were important in defining the Republic between the Revolution and the Civil War and they distinctively both did and did not show Americans in need.
by Jonathan Prude via Commonplace on April 12, 2010
Marine hospital

Sailors’ Health and National Wealth

That the federal government created this health care system for merchant mariners in the early American republic will surprise many.
by Gautham Rao via Commonplace on October 1, 2008
Alexander Hamilton.

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on November 1, 2007
Welcome to Delaware sign.

Rogue State

The case against Delaware.
by Jonathan Chait via The New Republic on August 19, 2002

The Education of David Stockman

"None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers."
by William Greider via The Atlantic on December 15, 1981
Birds-eye view of water park in Wisconsin Dells.

How the Wisconsin Dells Turned Nature Into the Ultimate Indoor Destination

What the rise of the “Waterpark Capital of the World” means for its namesake riverscape.
by Matthew King via The Metropole on November 11, 2025
Map of Texas's congressional districts.

How Redistricting Turned a Setback Into a Bloodbath

The 1894 election cycle holds some key lessons for partisan gerrymanders today.
by Alan Greenblatt via Politico Magazine on November 10, 2025
The American flag as two speech balloons.

The Ideal That Underlies the Declaration of Independence

Restoring stability to American politics will require reviving an age-old concept: common ground.
by Walter Isaacson via The Atlantic on November 9, 2025

We Used to Read Things in This Country

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
by Noah McCormack via The Baffler on October 27, 2025
The Erie Canal near Little Falls, New York, c. 1905.

363 Miles That Transformed America

The Erie Canal, dug by human muscle, aided by improvised cleverness, helped build a nation.
by George F. Will via Washington Post on October 22, 2025
Front entrance of the New York Stock Exchange building reflected in a modern glass building.

The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929

As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, a new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.
by John Cassidy via The New Yorker on October 13, 2025
Screen shots and captions from a public service campaign about the economy.

The Ad Campaign for Capitalism

In the 1970s, corporate America struck back at the forces attempting to rein it in. One of their tactics was a public service announcement.
by David Sirota, Jared Jacang Maher via The American Prospect on October 13, 2025
John Brown stands armed, positioned before Union and Confederate people fighting amid smoke and devastation.

Why Donald Trump Wants to Erase John Brown’s Fiery Abolitionist Legacy (and Why He Will Fail)

Reflections on Harper's Ferry amid a government shutdown.
by Robert S. Levine via Literary Hub on October 10, 2025
The French battleship Richelieu being maneuvered by tugboats up the East River for repairs and refitting.

A Helluva Town

A new history of New York City during World War II captures the glory, tawdriness, poverty, narcissism, beauty, and grime of this “aggregation of villages.”
by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on October 9, 2025
Nervous stock traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 2008.
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The 2008 Financial Crisis Explained: Housing Bubble to Bailout

Risky loans, regulatory gaps, and Wall Street practices fueled the 2008 financial crisis and led to the Great Recession.
via Retro Report on September 25, 2025
Photograph of Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904).

How National Self-Sufficiency Became a Goal of the Right

What looks like Trump-era economic nationalism has deep roots. German nationalists of the 1800s and fascist leaders of the 1930s imagined power through autarky.
by Ian Klinke via Jacobin on September 7, 2025
Yitzhak Rabin and Yassir Arafat shaking hands while Bill Clinton holds his arms around them at the Oslo Accords.

How the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People

Revisiting a turning point in the history of Israel’s occupation.
by Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, Rafeef Ziadah via Literary Hub on August 27, 2025
A young Donald Trump tosses an apple into the air.

When Trump's Brain Broke

Donald Trump seems stuck in the 80s.
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on August 21, 2025
An apartment building on fire.

Did Racial Capitalism Set the Bronx on Fire?

To some, the fires lit in New York in the late seventies signaled rampant crime; to others, rebellion. But maybe they were signs of something else entirely.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on August 18, 2025
World Trade Center towers burning on 9/11.

The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror

A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."
by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on July 24, 2025
John F. Kennedy waves to a cameraman a crowd of supporters in Los Angeles in 1960.
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To Bounce Back, Democrats Need a New John F. Kennedy Moment

JFK's presidential win in 1960 offers a guide for how Democrats can rebound in 2025.
by Bruce W. Dearstyne via Made By History on July 23, 2025
Image of where the rust belt is located on a US map

Economic Mobility, Not Manufacturing Decline, Is the Real Rust Belt Story

A look at popular interpretations and actual labor fluctuations in the Rust Belt over time.
by Norbert Michel, Jerome Famularo via Cato Institute on June 12, 2025
Political cartoon of General Jackson Slaying the Many Headed Monster (the Second National Bank).

The Ghost of Nicholas Biddle

Trump’s war against elite academia has created an uncanny parallel to the most dramatic fight in Jackson’s day—the attack on the 2nd Bank of the United States.
by Adam Rowe via Compact on June 2, 2025
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