If liberals, progressives, and even Marxists are most common in history and political science departments within universities, then it goes to reason that these fields…
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Media, including news coverage of politics and economics.
Duke University historian Nancy MacLean is currently a trendy historian who spent 2017 touring and promoting her book Democracy in Chains. The book has some…
Democrats face a steep climb in 2018, in both the House and the Senate. It’s easy to over-estimate the Trump Effect on 2018 elections, I…
Democrats and media pundits are extrapolating a lot from some horrible Republican candidates who managed close (or losing) races in places the GOP should win,…
Democracy in Chains by Historian Nancy MacLean was worthy of a few online posts earlier this summer, when I first read a loaned copy and was…
Researchers at the University of Washington, asked by Seattle to study the increase in the city’s minimum wage, have some difficult news for the city…
The United States’ federal budget spends a lot of money: between $3.5 and $4.0 trillion annually. How much do citizens of the United States earn…
Minimum wage debates tend to overstate the estimated and real effects of any changes to the minimum wage in the United States. Most studies show…
What do the strongest state economies in the United States share? Blue states with high taxes? NOPE. Red states, with low taxes and right-to-work laws?…
One of the more popular (or infamous) posts here on Almost Classical is “The 90% Tax Rate Myth.” It explores the differences between marginal and…