Rent control has been around for as long as the landlord. Since antiquity it has served as a tool for limiting land speculation, especially during economic shocks. In Rome, beginning in 40 B.C.E., in the wake of civil war, a debt crisis, and political turmoil, the government instituted a temporary rent cap and a cancellation of rent for one year.

It’s always seemed a little strange that less has been said about the final 15 years of Marx’s oeuvre than any other period of his writing.

This April, the Iowa Department of Corrections issued a ban on charities, family members, and other outside parties donating books to prisoners.

This all could’ve gone differently. Bob Woodward revealed that Donald Trump knew in February that COVID was airborne, information both men declined to share with the rest of the us until just now.