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Advanced Placement testing is "a money-making racket that lets states off the hook for underfunding education."

The history of food inflation during World War I, and the riots that halted it, show how capitalists take advantage of consumer expectations to price gouge.

From civil rights marches to moonwalks, historical imagery that belongs to everyone is locked away behind paywalls. Why?

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

The inventory he provided to tax assessors reveals just how profitable privateering was during the Revolutionary era.

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.

The disquieting story of an American health-product giant.

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision.

The state of design in 1970.

The Amazon founder was once the newspaper’s savior; now journalists are fleeing as the paper that brought down Nixon struggles under Trump’s second term.

1925 marked the peak of the Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers’ visions of striking it rich.

For decades, the NCAA vigorously opposed sports gambling. Now, March Madness is one of the most bet-on sporting events.

In 1978, Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act. It gave rise to some truly miserable air travel—and neoliberalism.

Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.

Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein has cultivated a reputation as a well-meaning advocate of history education. What does that image mask?

UnitedHealthcare, the health insurer whose CEO was murdered, has spent decades fighting and winning political battles to maintain the for-profit health system.

At the turn of the century in upstate New York, one tiny town learned there was money to make in the jailing of Chinese migrants.

A statistical analysis of how music composition evolved over time.

Monopolies across the grocery supply chain squeeze consumers and small-business owners alike. Big Data will only entrench those dynamics further.

Human bondage was big business in the antebellum US, and men weren’t the only ones cashing in.

Insulin transforms a sick body. It also has the potential to reconstitute our political economic realities.

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

Film and television writers face an existential threat.

A new book gets inside Guatemala’s international adoption industry and the complicated context of deciding a child’s welfare.

The 1993 film also inspired its director, Steven Spielberg, to establish a foundation that preserves survivors' stories.

In its early days, Coca-Cola established key relationships in the supply chain ranging from natural resources to pharmaceuticals to achieve market dominance.

How corporations wrested creative control from writers and editors—to produce less interesting books.

The greatest challenge presented by modern corporations, small as well as large, involves purpose.

Friedman's viewpoint went far deeper and has been more lasting than the politics of 1970.

The environmental crisis isn’t the result of the “tragedy of the commons.” It’s the result of the commons’ theft and privatization for profit.