September/October 2025

features

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

BY NICK FRENCH

California’s Imperial Valley

Water, Power, and Environmental Destruction

BY BILL BARCLAY

the regulars

the short run

comment | Catching the Value Capture Bus

making sense | Mamdani’s Municipal Socialist Inheritance

up against the wall street journal | Mass Deportations Drain Economic Growth

in review | Citizen Marx, by Bruno Leipold

economy in narrative | Hello Gig Economy, Goodbye Skills

economy in numbers | The Real Problem with the BLS