September/October 2025

Retirement Savings in the Dark

For most of the 20th century, there was a clear wall between working people’s pension funds and the riskier corners of financial markets. This wasn’t accidental—it was the law.

The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care

Many feminists urge a transition toward a dual-earner/dual-carer system in which women and men alike earn money and provide unpaid care for their families and communities. But is this possible in the current economic system?

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