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The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History
Stephanie Coontz has spent several decades explaining that our ideal vision of marriage is a figment of our collective imagination. Her The Way We N…
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Beefsteak Socialists? Left and Right Are Competing to Control the Economy
French philosopher Jean-François Revel, sometime after Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile, reportedly remarked that when the dictator came to kill Ch…
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AIER Everyday Price Index Rises Again, Showing Household Budgets Under Pressure
The AIER Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.33 percent in August 2026, reversing two consecutive monthly declines and registering its ninth-largest m…
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The Food Revolution Nobody Planned
Long before policymakers conceived New York City Groceries , entrepreneurs fed people. They did it cheaply, and they made people better off in unima…
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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, Fear Is Testing Freedom Again
The anniversary of September 11 invites remembrance before argument or advice. But from the distance of a quarter-century, and with thousands of sui…
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Will Trump Accounts Make Every Kid a Millionaire?
No — or at least, not by the time they finish high school. Depending on how they’re funded, a Trump Account could turn a child into a decami…
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Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Legendary rock star Bono may have learned this the hard way. Bono, born Paul David Hewson, was raised in a middle-class family and then skyrocketed …
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Abdul El-Sayed Has a Socialist Platform and a Capitalist Life
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary . The progressive candidate, endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-C…
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Why CPI Ignores Homes, Stocks, and the Cost of Getting Ahead
The median-priced home in America now costs $440,600 , while the median household earns roughly $84,000 a year. That gap has left a growing share o…
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What Makes Pharmaceutical Speaker Programs Illegal?
Pharmaceutical companies have paid billions of dollars to the US government and whistleblowers to resolve allegations that they used speaker progr…
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