Source Passive – Page 5 – An Examination of Power, Governance, and Societal Dynamics

Corporate Influence

Campaign Finance and the Rise of Oligarchy

The last decades of the 20th...

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Systemic Failure

Financial Deregulation and the 2008 Crash

For half a century following the...

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U.S. Criminal Justice System

The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration

As the United States embraced neoliberal...

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Eerie Sterility

The Neoliberal Turn and the Chicago School

During the 1970s, the post-World War...

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Richard Nixon

The 1970s Economic Shocks and the “Nixon Shock”

The quarter-century following World War II...

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Mid-20th Century America

The Civil Rights Movement and the Limits of Democracy

While the post-World War II era...

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Authority

The Cold War and the National Security State

While the United States enjoyed unprecedented...

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The 1950s

The Post-WWII “Great Leveling” and the New Industrial State

World War II catapulted the United...

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American Republic

The Rise of the Administrative State

For the first century of its...

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American City Street in the 1930s

FDR’s New Deal and the Rebirth of Regulation

When Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the...

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