As economic inequality and wealth concentration rise, the U.S. is entering a new era of support for workers' rights, reminiscent of the Gilded Age. This historical period -- which ran from the 1870s ...

Our response to the housing crisis is conditioned by the choices we made when faced with the industrial city’s workers’ ...

The Italian dictator launched the "battle for grain" to encourage self-sufficiency in wheat production in 1925.

After Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, the Democrats have repeatedly failed to hold together the coalition that elected the ...

In the 19th century, the United States was not considered a "great power" like Britain, Russia or Austria-Hungary. But somehow it beat all of them to become the dominant global superpower by the ...

Yale professors weigh in on the future of the Democratic Party, the role of liberal activism and democratic integrity in a ...

Parsing distinctions between architecture and “mere” building has been a preoccupation of thinkers and practitioners since ...

Britain used to be the world’s richest country. These six books explain how it came to be, and why it is no longer ...

Our reliance on mid-20th Century economic policy and focus on low wage jobs has sent us “tumbling toward Mississippi territory in per capita income” according to Bridge Michigan who notes that ...

Expert says the strength of the dollar has prompted many to question if an earlier US Fed rate cut was necessary.

The relative yields of Canadian and U.S. bonds are, along with crude prices, the primary determinant of the loonie’s value.