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The Importance of Teaching Dred Scott
In January, 2011, the House of Representatives undertook a recitation of the United States Constitution on the House floor. Lawmakers…
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The ProPublica Revelations Show Why We Need to Tax Wealth More Effectively
Thanks to a leak of Internal Revenue Service records to ProPublica, we know just how little some of the richest…
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The Other Side of the May Jobs Report: Higher Wages
Friday’s employment report for May confirmed that the economy is continuing its recovery from the shock of the pandemic. Although…
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Bitcoin’s Troubles Go Far Beyond Elon Musk
All speculative market manias produce signature characters. From the Yale economist Irving Fisher, who, in October, 1929, pronounced that stock…
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Why Jerome Powell and the Fed Should Ignore the Inflation Hawks
After more than a year of unprecedented dislocation, there is good news for America’s workers. Job openings are at record…
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Did a University of Toronto Donor Block the Hiring of a Scholar for Her Writing on Palestine?
In late April, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, which unites a majority of college faculty in the country, took…
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Don’t Panic Over One Weaker-Than-Expected Jobs Report
The monthly employment report from the Department of Labor may be the most closely watched economic statistic there is: investors,…
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The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
This had changed by the time Kaba left college and returned to New York City to work with survivors of…
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Biden’s Great Economic Rebalancing
According to some commentators, President Joe Biden is turning out to be a quiet revolutionary. After he laid out his…
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How Vaccine Hesitancy Is Driving Breakthrough Infections in Nursing Homes
Jay Meyerowitz, a geriatrician in private practice who serves as the medical director of two New Jersey nursing homes, thought…
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