If you ever find yourself in the unusual circumstance of needing to start a fight among scholars of American politics, ask them when the New Deal era ended. In the ensuing chaos of competing dates, ...

In his instantly iconic December 1964 address in front of UC-Berkeley’s Sproul Hall, the Berkeley Free Speech leader Mario Savio warned his listeners that “if this is a firm, and if the Board of ...

Credit: Pixabay/Geralt. CC0 Public Domain. There is nothing inherently neoliberal about ‘positive thinking’. But neoliberal capitalism is very good at co-opting everything that goes against it, ...

Over the last fifteen years, editors often asked me not to mention the word “neoliberalism,” because I was told readers wouldn’t comprehend the “jargon.” This has begun to change recently, as the ...

I recently found an interesting article by Martin Jacques, who, in the early 1980s, heralded and warned against the rise of neoliberalism—as defined by trickle-down and laissez-faire economics with ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A common area of concern is the "human cost" of neoliberalism, particularly on lower and working-class citizens.

I love Cornel West. Part of the reason I am a fan of his is that, before my nonfame and lack of fortune at The Root, I taught a college-level course called “Race as an Economic Construct.” The idea of ...

Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We gird ourselves for a frightening future The neoliberal era in the United States ended with a ...