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“It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.”This is the story of the lesser-known aspects of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency–the events outside of World War I.The Progressive Era is still in full force as Woodrow Wilson enters the Whi ...  Show more

Money and politics have always been intertwined in America, but before the days of Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg, there was Rockerfeller, Carnegie and Morgan, titans of industry whose political power may have become absolute if they hadn’t underestimated an upstart politician by the ...  Show more

The idea that the government should be run more like a business isn’t new. But with two businessmen, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, now taking a proverbial chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy all in the name “efficiency,” this theory is being put to the test. While it ...

Government. The Big G. We like to imagine the free market and the invisible hand as being independent from political influence. But Nobel laureate, Simon Johnson, says that influence has been there since the birth of economics. Call it political economy. Call it government and bu ...  Show more