Two new histories of American capitalism reveal how alluring narratives have nurtured corporate power.
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It’s the Working Class, Stupid
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira want Democrats to focus on working-class interests and back off cultural radicalism.
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A Cultural Artifact That Meets the Moment
Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’ nails how Trumpism functions at the most elemental of levels.
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100 Years Ago Today: Savage Nativism. And ‘Rhapsody in Blue.’
On the bigotry and diversity inherent in the world’s foremost nation of immigrants
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Bayard Rustin—Out of the Shadows
A new movie, a new book, and an old nonviolent warrior now given his rightful recognition
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Uber and the Impoverished Public Expectations of the 2010s
A new book shows that Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.
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Why and Where the Working Class Turned Right
A new book documents the lost (and pro-Democratic) world of Pennsylvania steelworkers and how it became Republican.
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Neoliberalism and Education
A conversation between Robert Kuttner and Cathie Martin
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When One Story Isn’t Enough
Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is a brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Osage people. But it doesn’t go far enough to explain how systemic it all was.