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It’s Time to Fulfill the Promise of Citizenship

The rights we save may be our own.
by Hidetaka Hiroka, Natalia Molina via Made By History on July 29, 2018
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

Democrats Would Be Better Off Today If Bill Clinton Had Never Been President

A look at the Clinton blunders that continue to damage his party today.
by Neil Swidey via Boston Globe on July 10, 2018

The Last Words of Robert F. Kennedy

Until his last breath, RFK insisted that Americans confront their country’s shortcomings—and live up to its potential.
by Conor Friedersdorf via The Atlantic on June 5, 2018
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Social Safety Net

How Americans through the years have approached the thorny questions of identifying who the government is obliged to help and how such assistance should be funded and distributed.

The Market Police

In neoliberalism, state power is needed to enforce market relations, but the site of that power must be hidden from politics.
by J. W. Mason via Boston Review on June 1, 2018

Full Employment and Freedom

The fight for a full employment bill forty years ago offers lessons for supporters of a job guarantee today.
by David Stein via Jacobin on May 25, 2018
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Resurrection City, 2.0

A generation ago, historians dismissed the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968. On the eve of a reboot, we can see it in a different light.
by Marisa Chappell on May 12, 2018

Worlds Apart

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on April 23, 2018
Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush at the funeral of US Senator Zell Miller
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The Democratic Program That Killed Liberalism

How Democrats like Zell Miller and Bill Clinton exacerbated inequality in education
by Jonathan D. Cohen via Made By History on March 28, 2018

The Factory in the Family

The radical vision of Wages for Housework.
by Sarah Jaffe via The Nation on March 14, 2018

Who Does She Stand For?

As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.
by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on March 5, 2018

Labor and the Long Seventies

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.
by Lane Windham, Chris Brooks via Jacobin on February 25, 2018
Boy walking across a dirt road in Biloxi.

How Poverty and Racism Persist in Mississippi

Author Jesmyn Ward on the racism “built into the bones” of the state where she grew up and is choosing to raise her children.
by Jesmyn Ward via The Atlantic on February 1, 2018
Customers at an African American bank in Harlem.
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We Need More Government, Not Less, in The War on Poverty

The myth of the “dependent” poor.
by Mehrsa Baradaran via Made By History on December 8, 2017

The Cold War and the Welfare State

If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.
by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on December 4, 2017
Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe at the Lincoln Memorial.

Technocratic Vistas: The Long Con of Neoliberalism

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.
by Jackson Lears via The Hedgehog Review on November 13, 2017

Mont Pelerin in Virginia

A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on September 7, 2017

Remembering the ADA

Americans may be tempted to pat ourselves on the back about the ADA, but we can’t afford to congratulate ourselves too soon.
by Felicia Kornbluh via Vermont Public Radio on July 26, 2017

Trumpcare Is Dead. “Single Payer Is the Only Real Answer,” Says Medicare Architect.

Max Pine, 91, believes that one day “the Republicans will leap ahead of the Democrats and lead in its enactment.”
by Zaid Jilani, Max Pine via The Intercept on July 19, 2017

On Health Care, History is Watching. And it’s Watching Four Senators in Particular.

We should not be surprised by the attacks on Obamacare, they are, in fact, the typical response to social reform.
by E. J. Dionne Jr. via Washington Post on July 16, 2017

The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights

In dismantling Obamacare and slashing Medicaid, Republicans would strike a blow against signature victories for racial equality in America.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on June 27, 2017

How the Right Gets Reagan Wrong

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.
by Henry Olson via Politico Magazine on June 26, 2017
Coretta Scott King.

Why Coretta Scott King Fought for a Job Guarantee

She saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.
by David Stein via Boston Review on May 16, 2017

Booked: The Origins of the Carceral State

Elizabeth Hinton discusses how twentieth-century policymakers anticipated the explosion of the prison population.
by Elizabeth Hinton, Timothy Shenk via Dissent on August 30, 2016

From "War on Crime" to War on the Black Community

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.
by Elizabeth Hinton via Boston Review on June 21, 2016

Ronald Reagan Was Once Donald Trump

The Trump candidacy looks a lot more like Reagan's than anyone might care to notice.
by Frank Rich via Intelligencer on June 1, 2016
Sign reading "Is your child vaccinated?"
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Contagion

How prior generations of Americans responded to the threat of infectious disease.
via BackStory on February 19, 2016
Booker T. Washington writing at a desk.

Toward a Usable Black History

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.
by John McWhorter via City Journal on December 23, 2015
Lyndon Johnson campaigning in Illinois in 1964, the year he declared ‘war on poverty;’ Johnson signing an autograph for an elderly woman.

The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?

Four changes are especially important when we try to measure changes in the poverty rate since 1964.
by Christopher Jencks via New York Review of Books on March 18, 2015

The Case for Reparations

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on June 23, 2014

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