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Cascading Shame
Arlie Russell Hochschild returns to study the motivations of the left-behind right.
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It’s Good to Be the King
The ins and outs of how the mega-rich wall themselves off from government’s prying eyes
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Chicago Public Schools—From Worst to (Almost) First
A system that used to be ridiculed has become a model for schools in other cities.
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Red Weather Vanes
Maurice Isserman’s history of American communism documents both its achievements and its fatal obeisance to Soviet doctrines.
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Broken Cords
We’re moving toward replacing cable TV with a bundle of streaming networks. Will local and news programming get lost in the transition?
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The Domination Tour
Four decades of intensifying corporate concentration turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers ready to reckon with that?
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Antitax Nation
Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.
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Who Controls Your Shopping Cart?
Austin Frerick’s ‘Barons’ follows the food-industry giants that have cornered giant portions of the market for everything from coffee to chicken thighs.
