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Militarize, Destabilize, Deport, Repeat

Plan Colombia functioned like an ideological laboratory for forever war in the twenty-first century.
by Stephen D. Cohen via The Baffler on March 5, 2020
Choose your own adventure book covers with arrows pointing in opposite directions.

“Oh My God, It’s Milton Friedman for Kids”

How "Choose Your Own Adventure" books indoctrinated ‘80s children with the idea that success is simply the result of individual “good choices.”
by Eli Cook, Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 27, 2020

The Vexed History of Zionism and the Left

A new book asks why the left fell out of love with Zionism, but what it reveals is why liberal Zionists fell out of love with the left.
by Joshua Leifer via The Nation on February 10, 2020
A Black woman poses with the McDonald's golden arches.

How Fast Food "Became Black"

A new book, "Franchise," explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.
by Marcia Chatelain, Cynthia R. Greenlee via Vox on January 10, 2020
Portrait photograph of Daniel Bell sitting on a chair

The Homeless Radical

Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Jacob Hamburger via Jewish Currents on December 23, 2019

The Tortured Logic of #ADOS

The American Descendants of Slavery movement combines a left-wing critique of America’s founding with a distinctly right-wing strain of xenophobia.
by Hubert Adjei-Kontoh via The Outline on November 21, 2019

Bearing Risks and Being Watched

The individualization of risk that we often think of as part of neoliberalism already existed strongly in the early 20th century.
by Greta R. Krippner via Public Books on February 26, 2019

Other People’s Blood

On Paul Volcker.
by Tim Barker via n+1 on February 26, 2019
Franklin Roosevelt on the campaign trail.
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The Left is Pushing Democrats to Embrace Their Greatest President. It’s a Good Thing.

Democrats should proudly trumpet the New Deal — and extend it.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on January 14, 2019
Two inmates survey the aftermath of a prison uprising.

Prisons and Class Warfare

A look at the evolution of the prison system in California.
by Clement Petitjean, Ruth Wilson Gilmore via Historical Materialism on July 25, 2018
U.S. Senators Bob Dole and Birch Bayh shaking hands.

How Big Pharma Was Captured by the One Percent

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.
by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 28, 2018

Fighting Words

No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter.
by Sean Wilentz via Democracy Journal on March 20, 2018
Latin American leftist presidents Fernando Lugo, Evo Morales, Lula da Silva, Rafael Correa, an Hugo Chávez, joining hands in solidarity.
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Americans Shouldn’t Be Shocked by Russian Interference in the Election

Frustrated with foreign interference in our elections? So are the people of Latin America.
by Timothy M. Gill via Made By History on March 7, 2018
Identical twin girls wearing event entry bracelets and blue ribbon medals.

The Intriguing History of the Autism Diagnosis

How an autism diagnosis became both a clinical label and an identity; a stigma to be challenged and a status to be embraced.
by Bonnie Evans via Aeon on January 8, 2018

The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

A short history puts contemporary anti-monopoly movements in context.
by Ariel Ezrachi, Maurice E. Stucke via Harvard Business Review on December 15, 2017

The Small Business Myth

Small businesses enjoy an iconic status in modern capitalism, but what do they really contribute to the economy?
by Benjamin C. Waterhouse via Aeon on November 8, 2017
Children playing stick ball in the alley.

How the U.S. Government Locked Black Americans Out of Attaining the American Dream

The wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans is stark.
by Mehrsa Baradaran, Emma Roller via Splinter on October 11, 2017
Buildings destroyed by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico’s Hurricane María Proves Once Again that Natural Disasters Are Never Natural

Today's rhetoric about dependency and disaster relief echoes a conversation from more than a century ago.
by Stuart B. Schwartz via HNN on October 2, 2017

Commercial Surveillance State

Blame the marketers.
by Matthew Crain, Anthony Nadler via n+1 on September 27, 2017

Black and Woke in Capitalist America: Revisiting Robert Allen’s "Black Awakening"... for New Times’ Sake

A look into neocolonialism in modern America.
by N. D. B. Connolly via Social Science Research Council on March 7, 2017

The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America

It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism, but its past is one of exclusion.  
by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on July 22, 2016
Demonstrators in the June 1968 Poor People's March in Washington, DC.

Why Liberals Separate Race from Class

The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.
by Touré F. Reed via Jacobin on August 22, 2015

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