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Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

In the absence of tax dollars, American cities like Baltimore are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.

An interview with Ben Tarnoff, the author of "Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future."

Since 1892, the United States has deported more immigrants (over 57 million) than any other nation.

For the Pentagon, films like "Top Gun: Maverick" are more than just a movie.

A new book examines how the US government funded the growth of — and delegated governance to — the nonprofit sector.

An 1860 census record offers a glimpse into the choices available to pregnant women who were enslaved.

History’s lessons for the volatile digital currency markets.

Jim Ruland’s book on the legendary punk label helps explain why we lack a meaningful counterculture today.

In the early twentieth century, dance marathons were an entire industry—and a surprisingly hazardous business.

Thousands of Americans die preventable deaths each year. Why do we consider them mishaps?

To what degree can we blame automation for deindustrialization and class decomposition?

Basic healthcare in the 20th Century greatly impacted the way that the drug business currently operates in the United States.

How rooting for American athletes became part of Olympic TV coverage.

How the unsustainable growth of the container ship industry led to the supply chain crisis.

Somewhere in Jamaica survive the original cannabis strains that were not burned by American agents or bred to be more profitable.

U.S. government policies must continue to support physical and social infrastructure spending amid the continuing pandemic to avoid ‘stagflation’.

Promoters and performers in pro wrestling began increasingly prizing entertainment value over maintaining the appearance of legitimate contests.

By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.

Is media bias attributable to corporate power or personal psychology? Upton Sinclair and Walter Lippmann disagreed.

The recent panic over retail theft reveals tensions at the heart of American consumerism.

How a story told by a fugitive from slavery became a parable of American banking gone bad.

Historian Richard White on the greed, ineptitude and economic cost behind the transcontinental railroads, and the implications for infrastructure policy today.

He didn’t make a penny.

Nobody was listening, so she brought some rocks.

In the two decades before the Hepburn Act’s enactment, two entities vied for the right to coordinate the price and distribution of coal.

Long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market, the federal government continued to manage risk for capital, perpetuating inequality.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said America faces an economic crisis fifty years in the making. But how can we name the long crisis, much less explain it?

Kodak changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. But it struggled to reinvent itself for the digital age.

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.