Kim Phillips-Fein

One interpretation presents the country as irredeemably tainted by its past. Another contends that the United States has also tended toward egalitarianism.

Two books argue that private equity created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts other values, undermining companies and evading the law.

The study of poverty has flourished in recent decades. Why haven’t the lives of the poor improved?

How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas.

A new history of American politics examines the past and future of political realignments.

How many rich moderates would join the MAGA far right if redistribution policies threatened their wealth?

Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump.

A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.

How public interest groups inadvertently aided the right’s ascendency.

A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.

We are at the end of an era, as choices made in the 1970s have created a society that seems unable to cope with a crisis such as that posed by the coronavirus.