In recent decades, the American economy has been characterized by rising inequality, shrinking free time, and the growing concentration of economic and political power, increasingly undermining the democratic ideals to which the US is ostensibly committed.

Review of The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals by Lisa Herzog (Harvard University Press, 2025)

Despite American workers putting in long hours and being one of the only countries without mandated vacations, the cost of living in the United States continues to increase by leaps and bounds over what people take home. They’re not being helped by the Trump administration, which has worked to castrate the National Labor Relations Board while redistributing billions upward to billionaires via gene

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