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The United States has always been an experiment in ideals. Whether Americans have lived up to them at any given point is a different question, but the idea of “government of the people, by the people, for the people” has guided the country through crises that might have ended it long ago. One of the nation’s darkest chapters came in the aftermath of the Civil War, when leaders of the defeated Confederacy refused to accept federal authority and instead waged a sustained campaign to recapture power. The betrayal happened not on battlefields, but in legislative halls, shadowy backrooms, and...

Corporate supremacy first dragged the United States to economic devastation nearly a century ago, and it now tightens its grip with even greater ruthlessness. The 1975 film “Rollerball” foresaw a nightmarish future in which corporate giants displace governments entirely. That future envisioned an economic tyranny that is no longer a distant fantasy. The era leading up to the 1929 crash was defined by industrial barons who operated with impunity while elected officials stood aside. That corporate rule delivered the Great Republican Depression. Today’s corporate masters have refined those methods, seizing control of policymaking, hollowing out democratic institutions, and replacing...