Classic Cold War propaganda, Make Mine Freedom promotes free enterprise as the secret to American prosperity. Courtesy of the Prelinger Archive, the animated short cites the postwar economic boom as ...

What do Republicans see in a picture like this? Future mass-consumers and child labor. The cartoons are all just under 8 minutes in length. I was not able to find a way to embed the video for this one ...

It sometimes feels as if we are living in a cartoon version of market capitalism, where shareholders have given up trying to control companies. Money floods into shares based on memes, is shifted ...

Does a middle-age man in a suit pushing a magical wheelbarrow mean anything to you? According to this cartoon from Fortune and LIFE magazines, he is emblematic of post-war America. In an attempt to ...

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