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Not Our Independence Day

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.
by William Hogeland, Jonah Walters via Jacobin on July 4, 2016
A reenactment of a Revolutionary War battle.

Placing the American Revolution in Global Perspective

Why did the American Revolution succeed while other revolutions in the same time period did not?
by Steven Pincus via Age of Revolutions on June 20, 2016

Killing Reconstruction

During Reconstruction, elites used racist appeals to silence calls for redistribution and worker empowerment.
by Heather Cox Richardson via Jacobin on August 19, 2015

How Medicare Was Made

The passage of Medicare and Medicaid, nearly fifty years ago, was no less contentious than recent debates about Obamacare.
by Julian E. Zelizer via The New Yorker on February 15, 2015
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The Way We Tax

From municipal government to international trade, these writings examine the political rhetoric, economic theories, and changing policies of taxation in the U.S.
Skull and crossbones with message reading "This is the place to affix the STAMP."
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Paying Up: A History of Taxation

From the Stamp Act of 1765 to the Tea Party Movement, how have – and haven't – American attitudes about taxes changed over time?
via BackStory on April 12, 2013

Founding Fathers, Founding Villains

A review of a handful of new books that embody the new liberal originalism.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on September 1, 2012
Welcome to Delaware sign.

Rogue State

The case against Delaware.
by Jonathan Chait via The New Republic on August 19, 2002

The Education of David Stockman

"None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers."
by William Greider via The Atlantic on December 15, 1981
Supreme Court and Donald Trump

The Supreme Court Should Listen to the Founders on Tariffs

James Madison and John Marshall would say Trump’s tariffs are legal.
by Chad Squitieri via Washington Post on October 9, 2025
First Houses public housing in New York.

Land Value Politics

What New York City can learn from its past about the potential for urban growth that is not hostage to the preferences of the largest private owners.
by Kim Phillips-Fein, Daniel Wortel-London via Phenomenal World on September 18, 2025
Zohran Mamdani stands at the podium during a campaign rally.

Zohran Mamdani Is Part of Municipal Socialism’s Long History

If he wins the New York City mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani will not be in totally uncharted territory.
by Shelton Stromquist via Jacobin on August 20, 2025
The word "god" is visible, chiseled into the wall behind a statue of Thomas Jefferson.
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Why the Founders Fought for Separation of Church and State

Establishing freedom of religion was a hard-fought success of the American Founding. Today we are still fighting.
by John A. Ragosta via Made By History on July 10, 2025
Affordable housing development under construction in New York City
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The History of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit could make a successful program even better—and address a major crisis.
by Tom Hanchett via Made By History on June 12, 2025
Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan

American Populists Used to Run Against Tariffs. It Could Happen Again.

William Jennings Bryan stoked a worker revolt against protectionism that led to the first income tax.
by Tony Annett via Washington Post on April 9, 2025
Floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Regime Change in the West?

Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures.
by Perry Anderson via London Review of Books on March 25, 2025
View of mountains on the horizon

Who Owns the Mountains?

Hurricane Helene has revived urgent questions about the politics of land — and tourism — in Appalachia.
by Olivia Paschal via New York Review of Books on November 3, 2024
Milton Friedman.

Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter

The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.
by Krithika Varagur via The New Yorker on January 12, 2024
Students on a field trip threw boxes of mock tea overboard at the Boston Tea Party Museum in Boston.

The Boston Tea Party Was a Crime

Opposition to British policy was justified. Destroying 342 crates of tea worth nearly $2 million in today’s money wasn’t.
by Jeff Jacoby via Boston Globe Magazine on December 14, 2023
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Playing to the Cameras

The prominence of politicos-turned-pundits is a product of cable news' turn to opinion commentary as a cheap and easy way to meet the needs of 24/7 coverage.
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via HNN on December 12, 2023
Collage illustration of a civil rights protest, inflated gas prices, and a Richard Nixon campaign poster.

Why America Abandoned the Greatest Economy in History

Was the country’s turn toward free-market fundamentalism driven by race, class, or something else? Yes.
by Rogé Karma via The Atlantic on November 25, 2023
Political cartoon depicting busts of Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, and Alan Greenspan on a mantle with spider webs.

The End of Milton Friedman’s Reign

The Chicago school ruled supreme over economics—until recently.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on November 13, 2023
Swale Land, painting by Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1898, depicting nature.

Vacant Unsettled Lands

American thinkers consider what the already occupied West could fund.
by Michael A. Blaakman via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 25, 2023
Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Voices from the Wilderness

The actual history of New Deal policies provides little evidence that it was a rollicking success.
by Kevin Schmiesing via Law & Liberty on October 10, 2023
The "fangs" of private equity dripping blood on the U.S. economy.

Conspicuous Destruction

Two books argue that private equity created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts other values, undermining companies and evading the law.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via New York Review of Books on September 28, 2023
United Auto Workers members at a rally.

UAW Strikes Built the American Middle Class

Today’s strikers are seeking to renew the broadly shared prosperity that earlier UAW work stoppages created.
by Harold Meyerson via The American Prospect on September 18, 2023
City of Kirkwood map.

Annexation Politics & Manufacturing Blight in a Black St. Louis Suburb

Unveiling the conflict and consequences in Kirkwood's expansion.
by Bridget Laramie Kelly via The Metropole on September 12, 2023
Tom Scully, stethescopes, and money.

Patient Zero

Tom Scully is as responsible as anyone for the way health care in America works today.
by David Dayen via The American Prospect on August 1, 2023
Painting depicting the U.S. Army and American Indians signing the Treaty of Greenville, 1785.

How the (First) West Was Won: Federalist Treaties that Reshaped the Frontier

Treaties with Britain, the Confederated tribes, and Spain revealed that America was still dependent on the greater geopolitics of the Atlantic World.
by Brady J. Crytzer via Journal of the American Revolution on December 29, 2022
Mike Lawler, Republican candidate for New York's 17th Congressional District.
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The GOP Can Thank Suburban N.Y. For its Slim Control of The House

How a red wave in a solidly blue state helped tip the balance.
by Stacie Taranto via Made By History on November 28, 2022
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) at a podium.
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Dark Money in Politics is a Problem. History Points to a Solution.

Everyone would benefit from new rules forcing greater transparency in political donations.
by Bo Blew via Made By History on September 28, 2022
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