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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

January/February 2024

Issue 370

January/February 2024

Inequality and Climate Change

Arthur Macewan

The power of the rich is making it even harder to halt climate change than it has to be. | Read more »
A Country of Mini-Millionaires?

John Miller

The Wall Street Journal’s rosy take on the latest Federal Reserve wealth report. | Read more »
Union Democracy Stands Up

Barry Eidlin

Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor. | Read more »

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features

The Heavy, Unequal Burden of Student Debt

Nick French

The federal student loan payment restart is inflicting needless pain on millions of Americans.
Ruined Rivers

Mir Aiyaz

The Hidden Crisis of Unchecked Mining in Kashmir

the regulars

editors’ note We Have the Power—How Will We Use It?
the short run
cartoon “The Raises They Want Are Literally Impossible!”
making sense Wealth, Inequality, and All That
50th-anniversary reprint The Sound of Popular Economics
economy in numbers The Elimination of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
dr. dollar Inequality and Climate Change