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Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is a historian, writer, and editor. His research and writing have pursued two main lines of inquiry: labor history and the history of American capitalism. He is the author of Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion. His previous books include The Age of Acquiescence and The Limousine Liberal. He is a co-founder and co-editor of the American Empire Project.

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Donald Trump might then be seen as but the latest in a long line of the empowered who either believed in or, for reasons of state, class interest, or political calculation, feigned a belief in grand conspiracies. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The United States of Paranoia

From the Salem witch hunt to conspirator-in-chief Donald Trump

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The Green New Deal may come to embody a future more humane and liberating than what its ancestor imagined possible. (Photo: Peg Hunter/flickr/cc)

The Greening of the New Deal

The great depression and the climate crisis, new deals then and now.

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"Millions of children arrive at school burdened by the costs of secular decline before they ever enter their first class." (Photo: Unite the Resistance/Twitter)

Class Dismissed: Class Conflict and Teacher Rebellion in Red State America

Insurgent teachers are instructing us all about a tale of denial for which we’ve paid a heavy price.

Steve Fraser ·

Bernie, The Donald, and the Sins of Liberalism

An American version of class struggle

Steve Fraser ·

Plutocracy The First Time Around

Revisiting the Great Upheaval and the First Gilded Age

Steve Fraser ·

The Rebirth of Family Capitalism

Or How the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, and other billionaires are undermining America

Steve Fraser ·

Making Disaster Pay

From the San Francisco Earthquake to Superstorm Sandy, How Capitalism Stacks the Deck on Disaster

Steve Fraser ·

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