This book analyzes US immigration policies. The US was open to immigrants from all over the world without restriction for the first 100 years of its national existence; first in 1924, and then again in 1965, immigration policies restricted the number of immigrants allowed to enter. The first group...

In November 2020, The New York Times asked fifteen on its columnists to 'explain what the past four years have cost America.' Not one of the columnists focused on President Trump's racism. This book seeks to redress this imbalance and bring Black Americans' role in our economy to the forefront....

Slavery and the Civil War -- Reconstruction -- The Gilded Age and Jim Crow laws -- The Great Migration, Depression and world wars -- Postwar prosperity and the civil rights movement -- A new Gilded Age and mass incarceration -- Racism rises and America declines.