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Foretelling the End of Capitalism: Intellectual Misadventures Since Karl Marx by Francesco Boldizzoni Harvard University Press, 329 pp. Is capitalism doomed? For well over 150 years, theoreticians have argued that [...]

How would you like to get $2,000 in free money today, fresh off the government printing presses? And what if I told you it wouldn't just be a nice windfall [...]

A strange thing happened in Escalante, Utah, during the government shutdown last fall. The town, a remote community of fewer than 800 souls perched on a high desert plain around [...]

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby Penguin Press, 800 pp. In December 2015, America's central bank, the Federal Reserve, raised its target [...]

There are two striking facts about the apparent glasnost that has broken out among Republicans since their shocking (to them) November election losses. The first is how timid the rethinking [...]

1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans [...]

Early last year, the ABC newsmagazine show 20/20 aired a segment called 'Scandal in the Peace Corps.' It told the story of a young volunteer named Kate Puzey, who was [...]

Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream by Nicholas Lemann Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 320 pp. America has long had a suspicious streak [...]

After Barack Obama's decisive reelection victory in 2012, it looked as though the long process of conservative radicalization might be at a turning point. Democrats had trounced Republicans among all [...]

America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein Penguin Press, 368 pp. Remember when central banking was boring? When it was one of those issues, [...]

Running from Office : Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics by Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox Oxford University Press, 232 pp. If there's one thing that [...]

Almost three years ago, in late March 2010, Shirley Sherrod, who was then the USDA state director of rural development for Georgia, gave a forthright speech about her life story [...]

The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era by Michael Grunwald Simon and Schuster, 528 pp. Twenty-eight days after taking the oath of office, Barack [...]