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

How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South.

For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.

It’s easier to blame individuals for the opioid crisis than to attempt to diagnose and cure the ills of a society.

The history of the Atlantic slave trade after the American Revolution is a story of sustained efforts to suppress it even as demand for slaves increased.

Failures in prosecuting German businesses who profited in Nazi Germany show how far Europe and America were willing to go to protect capitalism.

Toward the end of WWI, as the U.S. peddled Liberty Bonds, a goldfish dealer bred a stars-and-stripes-colored carp: a living, swimming embodiment of patriotism.

Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind.

The Trump administration reportedly could be taking us down a dangerous path.

Who should be allowed to profit from depictions of traumatic events in Black history?

Before universities profited from stolen Indigenous territory through "land-grants," schools like UNC sold Indigenous lands hundreds of miles away.

It’s not obsolete, and it’s not a business.

Will coronavirus prompt the house of cards of college athletics to come tumbling down?

The 'Gone With the Wind' film legend, who died at age 104, went up against a broken Hollywood studio system—and helped change the industry forever.

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth transformed America’s pastime by becoming a new kind of star.

Newspapers must be for the people. It’s worth investing our tax dollars in them.

The mail delivery agency is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit.

Over 100 years, a tactic first designed to keep workers happy morphed into a marketing strategy.

In his sweeping new history, the economist systematically demolishes the conceit that extreme inequality is our destiny, rather than our choice.

The GE exec was known for his big personality. He should be known for the role he played in creating America's toxic corporate culture on a base of inequality.

Bernie Sanders pushed a measure through the House to require drugs funded by public research funds to be sold at a reasonable cost. The Senate shot it down.

For the sake of justice and democracy, we need a progressive wealth tax.

A new book uses the story of a former slave trader who profited after the Civil War by trafficking in convict labor to trace the historical roots of mass incarceration and racial profiling.

Gangs and mafiosos have a long history with food crime.

The 1619 Project offers bitterness, fragility, and intellectual corruption—not history.

AM stations mainly wanted to keep listeners engaged—but ended up remaking the Republican Party.

In three centuries, the heresies of two bankers became the basis of our modern economy.

Standard clothing sizes don’t exist.

How spring training has become as much about money and business as about playing the game.

People in the audience thought the player who stole the base was playing a joke.