Core Brief: Republican Elites Looted America—This Is How

From inclusive prosperity to an extractive elite economy — the heist isn’t over

American culture 50 years ago is probably not something we want to resurrect. But American prosperity 50 years ago, that would be lovely!

From 1965 to 1972, the United States experienced its economic heyday. Culturally, not so much. It was a time when a man could work one job and the woman could run the home and raise children. That one job was enough to…