To look backward is to be reminded that manufacturing decline is not only about numbers or jobs;...
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Factories that once symbolized resilience and prosperity are shedding workers at a pace unseen since the last...
The history of work is not only a chronicle of innovation and achievement. It is also a...
The federal government, its workforce targeted by Trump and by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency,...
Industrial health received special scientific and public attention in the Progressive period and was the subject of...
Whether this moment becomes a full recession depends on workers and households. If layoffs remain rare, the...
Far earlier than today’s ports and global supply chains, the seas around Thailand were a complex network...
What began as religious settlements and agrarian protests evolved into a systematic ideology and, eventually, into governments...
The Fed was designed to stabilize capitalism, not to replace it. In doing so, it has become...
Cook in 2022 became the first Black woman to serve on the independent board, a frequent target...
The lesson of antiquity is that technological ingenuity was never absent. What was absent were economic structures...
He is asking whether our legal and governance structures are agile enough to distribute the bounty of...
Medieval record-keeping technology encompassed more than quills and parchment. It represented a cultural shift toward inscription as...
A shakeout could leave fewer but stronger players, potentially accelerating the pace of meaningful innovation once the...
Are we building a room for the world to gather, or a mirror in which only we...
The real question is whether DOGE will be reformed from within, dismantled altogether, or quietly absorbed into...
Funds meant to support the integrity of America’s nuclear infrastructure have instead gone toward polishing an asset...
The history of tax evasion in the ancient world offers not only a window into economic life,...
Republican lawmakers are set to push the Trump administration to unilaterally “drastically reduce what investors pay on...
To write the history of the middle class is to write the history of modernity, not from...
The middle class is bearing more of the cost and receiving less of the reward. And the...
The history of tax avoidance is a history of inequality made durable not by failure, but by...
In the end, the One Big Beautiful Bill may be remembered not for its size or its...
By tracing how past rulers manipulated meaning, we gain sharper tools to recognize when the same sleights...
The language that cloaks privilege is often older than we realize, echoing through cathedrals and corporate boardrooms...
When governments restrain investment in public goods out of fear, inequality deepens. Trust erodes. Social mobility stalls....
By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate When Power Needs a Makeover Authoritarian regimes have long relied on force,...
An example of how wealth and power in the ancient world were often built on the suffering...
Introduction In 2025, former President Donald Trump introduced what he referred to as the “Big Beautiful Bill,”...
Wealth and power were built on the exploitation of the lower classes. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...