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An excerpt from Patricia Seed's "Sails & Shadows"

Author Mechele Dickerson explains why everyone should care about the health of the middle class, and what we can do to save it.

Author Nancy Folbre explains why no amount of economic growth is going to make care provision affordable—unless we commit to putting people first.

Authors Leanne Roncolato and Michael E. Martell on building a better and more inclusive economics.

Author Gary Hoover on who really gets ahead in a market-based economy.

Both propaganda and entertainment, George Seaton’s film, "The Big Lift," released in 1950, starring Montgomery Clift, saw Hollywood dramatize the struggles of post-war Berlin and the Berlin Airlift.

Bold, field-defining scholarship for the public good.

From studies of fossilized pollen, which shed light on peoples’ use of the land, to the recovery of ancient human genomes, which help us reimagine group identities, social cohesion, and migration, the paleosciences now contribute regularly to the study of Late Antiquity.

The overlooked influence of Carlyle's "Past and Present" on Charles Dickens' famous "A Christmas Carol."

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