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September/October 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s Bold Program for an Affordable New York City

In a shocking upset, socialist Zohran Mamdani bested former governor Andrew Cuomo in the June 24 New York City mayoral

Nick French Sep 13, 2025

Driving Off a Cliff?

Donald Trump’s tariffs will make the U.S. auto industry less competitive and leave the industry out of step with the auto market's shift to EVs.

Bill Barclay Sep 11, 2025

Left Hook Economics

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

Nancy Folbre Sep 9, 2025

September/October 2020

September/October 2020

How Green Is Joe Biden’s Green New Deal?

John Miller

Sorting out the good and the bad in the Democratic candidate’s climate-change policies. | Read more »
The Dangers of Private Debt

Julian Jacobs

High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper. | Read more »
Coronavirus, Capitalism,
and the Workers’ Movement

Alejandro Reuss

Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19 | Read more »

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“Hero Pay” and Covid-19

David Mcclough

Missing from mainstream economists’ toolkit for understanding wages: a power analysis.

the regulars

editors’ note Cliffs, Seesaws, and Leaps
the short run
cartoon “The Post Office Is Dying!”
active culture NBA Wildcat Strike for Racial Justice
in review Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Triumph of Injustice