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The Walmart Effect

Rogé Karma The Atlantic
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

A Soundtrack of Irrationalism

Blaire Briody Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviewer Briody calls this book "a tightly written and well-reported account of the rise of extremism in small-town America."

The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t

Rogé Karma The Atlantic
The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?

No, Economic Populism Did Not Lose This Election

Isaac Rabbani, Domenico Siravo Jacobin
Over the course of her campaign, with all the wrong people in her ear, Kamala Harris rejected the type of economic populism that could have salvaged last month’s elections.