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September/October 2025

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

A rundown of the Democratic mayoral nominee's policy positions.

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

January/February 2021

January/February 2021

Drugs and Global Capitalism

Sasha Breger Bush

The sheer size of the drug economy suggests its overwhelming centrality to the global economic system. | Read more »
The Stock Market and the Coronavirus Crisis

John Miller

Wall Street demands your money and your life. | Read more »
State and Local Austerity

Amanda Page-Hoongrajok

Are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? | Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

Covid-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism

John Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi

With a primer on the shock doctrine by Bryan Snyder
Book Excerpt: The Debt Delusion

John F. Weeks

Living Within Our Means and Other Fallacies

the regulars

editor’s note Against Austerity
the short run
two cents Bad Innovation
in review Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology; William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, From Here to Equality