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Francis Fukuyama

The End of the End of History

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

by Maximillian Alvarez via Boston Review on March 22, 2019

Wayward Leviathans

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.

by David Ciepley via The Hedgehog Review on March 1, 2019

The Archivists of Extinction

Architectural history in an era of capitalist ruin.

by Kate Wagner via The Baffler on October 19, 2018

“A Place to Die”: Law and Political Economy in the 1970s

What the substandard conditions at a Pittsburgh nursing home revealed about the choices made by lawmakers and judges.

by Karen Tani via LPE Project on October 18, 2018

Artistic photo for black history

The Trouble With Uplift

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

by Adolph Reed Jr. via The Baffler on September 4, 2018

Is Democracy Really Dying?

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate.

by Timothy Shenk via The New Republic on August 20, 2018

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade

A seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.

by Christopher Caldwell, Malcolm Harris, Frank Rich, Timothy Shenk, Hanna Rosin, Rachael Combe, Sarah Leonard, Lauren Levy, Heather Havrilesky, Allison P. Davis via Intelligencer on August 5, 2018

Human Rights and Neoliberalism

How is it that the era of neoliberalism coincides almost perfectly with the triumphant rise of a discourse of human rights?

by Nils Gilman via Los Angeles Review of Books on May 8, 2018

Somewhere in Between

The rise and fall of Clintonism.

by Ryan Cooper via The Nation on February 14, 2018

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.

by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on December 22, 2017

The Big Picture: The Right Type of Citizenship

Citizens pledge their allegiance to a nation that reciprocates with a pledge of allegiance to them. What does that look like?

by Jefferson Cowie via Public Books on October 31, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.

by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017

The New Working Class

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.

by Gabriel Winant via Dissent on June 27, 2017

For-Profit Colleges in American History

Trump University follows a long line of for-profit schools that have faced accusations of dishonesty.

by A. J. Angulo via Process: A Blog for American History on June 20, 2017

A painting of a "traditional" mid-20th century nuclear family.

All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

by Melinda Cooper via Boston Review on May 31, 2017

Hands holding vials of chemicals.

The Empire’s Amnesia

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

by Greg Grandin, Jacobin via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

Trump's Predictable Rise

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

by Josh Mound via Jacobin on April 21, 2017

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.

by Christian H. Cooper via Nautilus on April 20, 2017

How Tax Policy Created the 1%

For nearly a century, American tax policy has privileged the investor class and advanced the accumulation of white wealth.

by Julia Ott via Dissent on April 18, 2017

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

by Matt Stoller via The Atlantic on October 24, 2016

Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

by Judith Stein, Connor Kilpatrick via Jacobin on September 6, 2016

Ross Perot speaking in front of a banner opposing NAFTA.

End of the End of History, Redux

Remember Perot?

by Frank Guan via n+1 on March 24, 2016

The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.

By supporting repressive governments, the U.S. has fueled the violence that has caused tens of thousands of kids to flee north.

by Alexander Main via Dissent on July 30, 2014

Chief Justices of the Supreme Court attend President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington, DC.

The Courts Won’t Save Us

Rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise.

by Samuel Moyn, Daniel Bessner via Jacobin on April 30, 2025

City workers get their lunch at the Horn & Hardart automat in New York City, ca 1940.

Choice and Its Discontents

Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. Sophia Rosenfeld exposes the complex legacy of this idea.

by Sophia Rosenfeld, Daniel Falcone via Jacobin on April 22, 2025

The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658.

The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

by Greg Grandin, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on April 21, 2025

Zombie hand reaching up from the ground in a graveyard.

The Dead Hand of Clintonism

More than 20 years after Bill Clinton left office, Democrats remain in the grips of his New Democrat politics. That’s a serious problem.

by Lily Geismer via The Nation on February 13, 2025

illustration of stack of books

The Rise and Fall of Liberal Historiography

How historians changed their approach, from the 1960s to the present.

by Gabriel Winant via HNN on February 11, 2025

Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump.

The Beaver and the Eagle: A 200-Year-Old Argument

The left case for an independent Canada.

by Leigh Phillips via Jacobin on February 1, 2025

Jimmy Carter speaking in front of a row of solar panels.

Energy Is Central to American Politics. That All Started with Jimmy Carter.

We have yet to solve the problems that Carter confronted head-on as president.

by Gautama Mehta via Grist on January 9, 2025

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