“We Americans are reluctant to acknowledge that our economy serves the educated classes and penalizes the rest”
When it comes to people whose lives aren’t going well, American culture is a...
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“Everyone should have access to good housing and good jobs. That’s the point.”
…something is seriously off when privileged whites dismiss the economic pain of less privileged...
“Main Street requires shoppers who don’t really care about low prices. The dream of Main Street may be populist, but the reality is elitist”
It’s worth noting that the idealized Main Street is not a myth in some...
“Bill Clinton’s Presidency was so lacking in history-making events, yet so crowded with the embarrassing minutiae of scandalmongering, that it was easy to miss the great change that those years meant for the country and the Democratic Party”
Bill Clinton’s Presidency was so lacking in history-making events, yet so crowded with the...
“The present moment…is the most productive in the nation’s history”
Manufacturing retains its powerful hold on the American imagination for good reason. In the...
“Four key forces have been shaping the rise and fall of nations since the 2008 financial crisis, and none of them bode well for China”
Four key forces have been shaping the rise and fall of nations since the...
“Courtship has always been dictated by changes in the market”
The generation of Americans that came of age around the time of the 2008...
“The sputtering global economy is one shock away from slipping into recession”
The sputtering global economy is one shock away from slipping into recession. In the...
“Dating itself is a recent invention. It developed when young people began moving to cities and women began working outside private homes”
Dating itself is a recent invention. It developed when young people began moving to...
“We use this kind of language because the ways that people date…have always been tied to the economy”
We constantly use economic metaphors to describe romantic and sexual relations. Few people today...