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Brent Cebul

Bylines

Tearing Down Black America

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

by Brent Cebul via Boston Review on July 22, 2020
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Cities and States Need Aid — But Also Oversight

Federal funding during and after the New Deal ended up hurting cities because of who spent it and how.

by Brent Cebul, Daniel Wortel-London via Made By History on May 4, 2020
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Infrastructure is Good for Business

During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?

by Brent Cebul on March 12, 2018
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Renewing Inequality

An interactive set of maps documenting the more than 300,000 families displaced by urban renewal projects between 1955 and 1966.

by Robert K. Nelson, Brent Cebul, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 13, 2017
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The Supply-Side Swindle

For decades, the GOP has used tax cuts to achieve its political goals. So why do Dems keep treating "supply-side" as an economic strategy?

by Brent Cebul on November 17, 2017
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The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?

by Leah Wright Rigueur, Brent Cebul on October 19, 2017
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Trump and the Historians

What the election of 2016 should mean for the future of studying the past.

by Brent Cebul on September 1, 2017
The Deeper Problem Behind the Sale of a Posh San Francisco Street

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.

by Brent Cebul via CityLab on August 18, 2017
They Were Made for Each Other

How Newt Gingrich laid the groundwork for Donald Trump's rise.

by Nicole Hemmer, Brent Cebul via The New Republic on July 11, 2016

Book

Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals Since the 1960s

Lily Geismer, Brent Cebul

2025

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Cover of a book on President Bill Clinton's failures.

The Left Can’t Stop Wondering Where Bill Clinton Went Wrong. The Answer Explains a Lot.

Clinton’s role in decoupling the Democratic Party from mainstream labor, first in Arkansas and then nationally, had dire consequences.

by Matthew E. Stanley, Paul M. Renfro via Slate on September 15, 2023

Photo of Newt Gingrich speaking into a microphone.

To Understand the Modern GOP, Look at the Reactionary ’90s

The most vitriolic and morally panicked conservative figures of the 1990s contributed just as much to modern American conservatism as Ronald Reagan did.

by Paul M. Renfro via Jacobin on August 21, 2022

Brent Cebul

Bylines

Tearing Down Black America

Cities and States Need Aid — But Also Oversight

Infrastructure is Good for Business

Renewing Inequality

The Supply-Side Swindle

The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Trump and the Historians

The Deeper Problem Behind the Sale of a Posh San Francisco Street

They Were Made for Each Other

Related Excerpts

The Left Can’t Stop Wondering Where Bill Clinton Went Wrong. The Answer Explains a Lot.

To Understand the Modern GOP, Look at the Reactionary ’90s