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  •    William Jennings Bryan and the Politics of Gold | HIST 1302 US after 1877   MR Online

    The American Dream, we hardly knew you

    Originally published: Dollars & Sense on November / December 2025 by John Miller (more by Dollars & Sense)

    Worsening inequality leaves young adults worse off than their parents.

  •    President Richard Nixon signs the National Environmental Policy Act NEPA on January 1 1970 Credit US Department of Agriculture public domain President Donald Trump signs Executive Order 13780 on March 6 2017 barring travel indefinitely from seven countries Credit White House public domain   MR Online

    From Nixonomics to Trumponomics

    Originally published: Dollars & Sense on November/December 2024 by Nick French (more by Dollars & Sense) (Posted Nov 21, 2024)

    The 50-Year Evolution of the GOP.

  •    NASA astronaut and Boeings crew flight test pilot Suni Williams in the International Space Stations Tranquility module July 10 2024 Credit NASA Office of Communications   MR Online

    As Boeing cracks, is it capitalism or Kafka?

    Originally published: Dollars & Sense on September / October 2024 by Marie Christine Duggan (more by Dollars & Sense) (Posted Sep 24, 2024)

    Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are not trapped in space, according to Boeing. The two expected to return to Earth from an eight-day mission on June 18.

  •    Buybacks   MR Online

    Stop stock buybacks!

    Originally published: Dollars & Sense on May/June 2023 by Ericka Wills (more by Dollars & Sense) (Posted Jun 02, 2023)

    On December 7, 2022, Southwest Airlines announced that it would reinstate its quarterly dividend payments, which had been legislatively suspended under requirements in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).

  •    Wikimedia Commons FileGrape workersjpg   Wikimedia Commons   MR Online

    Essential—and expendable—Mexican labor

    Originally published: Dollars & Sense on July/August 2020 Issue by Mateo Crossa and James M. Cypher (more by Dollars & Sense) (Posted Jul 20, 2020)

    Lear Corporation—one of the world’s largest auto parts manufacturers—rose to position 148 on Fortune magazine’s famous list of the 500 largest firms in 2018. It operates with roughly 148,000 workers spread across 261 locations.

  •    The economic basis of the recent protests around the world   MR Online

    Social crises, crises of Democracy, neoliberalism in crisis

    Originally published: Dollars & Sense on November 19, 2019 by Fred Murphy (more by Dollars & Sense) (Posted Dec 03, 2019)

    The current global social tensions have in common the rejection of inequality and the loss of democratic control. The engine driving these challenges may well be the fading relevance of neoliberalism, which is aggravating its own crisis and opening the door to confrontation.

  •    Close up of a dictionary word Unemployment   MR Online

    Traditional measures of unemployment are missing the mark

    Originally published: Dollars & Sense on May/June 2019 by Mark Paul (more by Dollars & Sense) (Posted May 27, 2019)

    We’ve heard it countless times in recent media accounts: The economy is at “full employment.” The most recent jobs numbers, out the first week in May, show the official unemployment rate, and applications for unemployment benefits are at a 50-year low. The last time a recovery was able to push the unemployment rate to these […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield    A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background   MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez    Mural of Chávez in Caracas Univision   MR Online

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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