Compiles chronologically arranged excerpts from the Chicago-based publication's coverage of labor and the economy from its 1976 launch through the dawn of the Trump era. The result is a sweeping chronicle of the slow-motion coup by which the billionaire class seized all the levers of power in our erstwhile democracy and used them to siphon wealth upward from ordinary workers to the corporate elite. - Danny Duncan Collum, Sojourners As In These Times has documented for the past forty years, the great issue of our time is our nation's movement toward oligarchy. We have a grotesque level of income and wealth inequality and a political system that is being bought and sold. We must make it clear that the greed of the 1 percent, corporate america, and wall street cannot continue. We must stand together and say 'enough is enough.' - Bernie Sanders To get out of the current political and economic hole, we need to understand how we ended up here. For decades, In These Times has been marshaling some of our finest minds to tackle this vital question, and here are the illuminating results of that investigation. - Naomi Klein If we can't address the gross unfairness that's come to mark our economic life, we probably can't address our other problems either. These are some of the planet's sharpest minds, and what they say must be heard. - Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet