Two new books focus on the struggles of low-income students not just to get into college but to get through it.
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Is Our Economists Learning?
The economics profession has a lot to answer for, but even its sharpest thinkers seem too wedded to a disproven pre–financial crisis mindset.
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Reckoning With White Supremacy
After the Civil War, equality meant different things for blacks and whites.
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High-Tech Dystopia and Utopia
Techno-political thriller writer and humanitarian aid worker Malka Older discusses the challenges of the cyber age.
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Libel and the Presidency
ABC News Chief Legal Affairs Anchor Dan Abrams discusses his new book ‘Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy’ and how it resonates today.
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The Rise and Fall of Andrew Mellon
He was America’s most powerful businessman and the Treasury secretary throughout the 1920s. His corruption would lead to an impeachment inquiry.
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Monopoly and Its Discontents
Matt Stoller’s ‘Goliath’ seeks to recover and explain the anti-monopoly tradition of the 20th century, at a time when it is urgently needed in the 21st.
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The Crash of Austerity Economics
Reality keeps contradicting the sponsors of economic pain, but they keep dispensing their perverse advice.
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Safeguarding Press Integrity for 2020
Center for Public Integrity CEO Susan Smith Richardson discusses the importance of local communities in national coverage of the Trump administration’s corruption and the 2020 campaign.
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Never Again, Except for Right Now
By arguing that ‘the left’ represents as dangerous a threat as mass shooters and right-wing terrorists, Times writer Bari Weiss cheapens the crisis facing America, one that she has witnessed firsthand.