Timothy Noah’s The Great Divergence deftly explores the roots and resurgence of American inequality.
Rich Yeselson
Rich Yeselson, a writer who lives in Washington, D.C., is writing a book about the Taft-Hartley Act.
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Obama’s Squandered Recovery
In The Escape Artists, Noam Scheiber depicts a White House out of its depth on the financial crisis.
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Obama’s Usable Past
Reading Obama as cut loose from history is incorrect. Obama’s promise is not to remove us from history but rather to find a “usable past” in American ideals of equality, justice, and fraternity.

