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Drawing of a crowd of delegates at the 1972 Democratic National Convention. (Franklin McMahon / Getty Images)

A Big Tent

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.
by Nicholas Lemann via The Nation on July 11, 2022
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When the Supreme Court Makes a Mistake

The history of the Supreme Court is replete with outrages and abominations, but they can be tough to overcome.
by Peter S. Canellos via Politico Magazine on June 29, 2022
Donald Trump speaking at a meeting with small businesspeople at the White House on January 30, 2017.

Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection

The increasingly militant right supports the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.
by Melinda Cooper via Dissent on January 13, 2022
Pile of US paper currency.

Austerity Policies In The United States Caused ‘Stagflation’ In The 1970s

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.
by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod via Washington Center For Equitable Growth on January 11, 2022
Collage of photos of Andrew Mellon, Ethel Mars and E.W. Scripps.

The Great Inheritors: How Three Families Shielded Their Fortunes From Taxes for Generations

A century of tax avoidance later, the dynasties created in the 1900s are going strong.
by Patricia Callahan, James Bandler, Justin Elliot, Doris Burke, Jeff Ernsthausen via ProPublica on December 15, 2021
Truman in car with dollar signs on eyes.

The Truman Show

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.
by Paul Campos via Intelligencer on July 24, 2021
Robert Mundell receives the Nobel Prize in economics from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, in 1999.

Remembering the Father of Supply-Side Economics

Robert Mundell’s theories spawned decades of economic debate and still matter to the big ideas of today.
by Bruce Bartlett via The New Republic on April 7, 2021

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

Tearing Down Black America

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.
by Brent Cebul via Boston Review on July 22, 2020
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The Constitutional Revolution a Century Ago That Is Shaping the 2020 Election

And why we need another one.
by Bruce J. Schulman via Made By History on June 21, 2019

How the IRS Was Gutted

An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed and hamstrung. That's good news for corporations and the wealthy.
by Paul Kiel, Jesse Eisinger via ProPublica on December 11, 2018

The New Old Democrats

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.
by Jake Sullivan via Democracy Journal on June 20, 2018

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.
by Matthew Stewart via The Atlantic on May 16, 2018
Man giving a speech for the Taxpayers League of Minnesota.

Half a Century of Anti-tax Orthodoxy Is Wrong

Taxation is at the heart of any serious economic growth policy.
by Felicia Wong via Boston Review on December 15, 2017
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The Supply-Side Swindle

For decades, the GOP has used tax cuts to achieve its political goals. So why do Dems keep treating "supply-side" as an economic strategy?
by Brent Cebul on November 17, 2017

Divided We Fall

We need a radical solution to avert the disintegration of our political system.
by Ganesh Sitaraman via The New Republic on April 10, 2017
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Paying Up: A History of Taxation

From the Stamp Act of 1765 to the Tea Party Movement, how have – and haven't – American attitudes about taxes changed over time?
via BackStory on April 12, 2013
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy speaking

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.
by Richard Hofstadter via Harper’s on November 1, 1964

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