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On the economic system of Silicon Valley.

William Jennings Bryan stoked a worker revolt against protectionism that led to the first income tax.

Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.

Plutocrats, anarchists, and what Henry James grasped about the romance of revolution.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

Ideas about history still prevailing in the liberal resistance to Trump keep pushing us backward.

In the American South, an oligarchy of planters enriched itself through slavery. Pervasive underdevelopment is their legacy.

In “Tyranny of the Minority,” Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the document has doomed our politics. But it can also save them.

The legacies of our racial past, and the prospects ahead for an embattled republic.

A new book aims to recover the Constitution’s pivotal role in shaping claims of justice and equality.

If the Biden administration wants to address migration, it must recognize U.S. complicity in Guatemala’s problems.

It’s time to abandon the assumption that workers have a “natural” home on the center-left.

America is now ruled by a single elite class rather than by local patrician smart sets competing with each other for money and power.

The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.

A new book charts the long contest between elites and the forces of democracy seeking to dismantle their power.

A review of "How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America."

Donald Trump is showing us what an unaccountable class of corporate decision-makers looks like—and it looks like a lot of fear, and a terrible loss of freedom.

Trump's second administration is 'unprecedented' to some, but historians find parallels in ancient Rome, Nazi Germany, and Latin American dictatorship.

Organizing is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength.

This post is part of a symposium on “The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution,” a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath.

Athenian democracy in the political imagination.

It’s hard to imagine having more direct control over a foreign country’s political system — short of a straight-up military occupation.

How city leaders and real estate barons used sunshine and oranges to market Los Angeles.