Illinois progressives want to reimagine capitalism and hand out free money with the tax dollars you worked for.

Generation Lab poll says, "College students prefer socialism to capitalism." Why? Because they believe absurd myths. Like the claim that the Soviet Union "wasn't real socialism." Socialism guru Noam ...

With the world in mortal crisis throughout the 1930s, the leading capitalist intellectuals of the day met in a series of fraught conferences. Horrified by the advances of totalitarianism, economists ...

In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power. Centuries ago, Beckert writes, investors traveled to remote corners of the ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

The 20th century was the best of times and the worst of times. On the dark side, as many as 270 million citizens were estimated to have been killed by governments that describe themselves as ...

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. A Social Democratic leaflet against capitalism, 1905. In 2008, on the ...

A Gallup poll published Tuesday found Americans' view of capitalism has fallen to its lowest level since the company began tracking the public's views on various economic systems in 2010. According to ...

Americans' faith in capitalism is declining, according to a new Gallup poll. The number of Americans saying they view capitalism positively in 2025 is 54 percent, down from 60 percent in 2021.

Americans’ approval of capitalism has plunged to a record low, while their support for socialism has ticked up slightly in recent years, a new Gallup poll shows. Only 54% of US adults surveyed said ...

Just more than half of U.S. adults in a new survey say they support capitalism, a record low since Gallup began asking the question 15 years ago. In Monday’s Gallup poll, 54 percent of Americans say ...

Americans’ positive image of capitalism has eroded over the past decade, as a new Gallup poll finds widening polarization over the US economic system. Just 54% of US adults view capitalism positively, ...