Matt and Sam interview historian Jennifer Burns about her new biography of Nobel Prize–winning economist and libertarian intellectual Milton Friedman.
Pizza, burgers, and tacos are not only delicious, they are essential to how capital shapes our lives.
Special economic zones are not just a product of the effort to free capitalism from democratic authority. They are a response to a broader anxiety about power imbalance between multinational corporations and national governments.
A discussion of Gary Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family.
Boosters have promoted prison construction on abandoned mine lands as a tool of economic development throughout Appalachia. New federal funding provides the opportunity for more sustainable and socially beneficial investments.
In his new book, Matthew Desmond argues that abolishing poverty will require an ambitious moral undertaking.
For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
Many urban governments have outsourced public services to private entities. In Washington, D.C., Uber enlisted the city for its own goals.
It is beyond our power to bring back those innocents whose lives have already been lost, but we can work to prevent the calamity that will surely follow if Israel continues to retaliate as it has so far.
The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.
John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.
Elected leaders across the United States are in nearly complete lockstep offering full support for whatever military operations the Israeli government is about to undertake. It is imperative to challenge this consensus.
To hold everyone’s humanity—that is the task of the hour.
Memoirs of a Weatherman.
Glacier v. Teamsters was not a crisis averted but another step in the right’s plan to stifle labor power.
What would it look like if we subordinated finance to the public interest?
