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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

Issue 327: November/December 2016

Prospects for the Spanish Left

William Saas, Jorge Amar, David Glotzer,
and Scott Ferguson

What answer does Podemos have for austerity? Read more »
Nativism: As American as (Rotten) Apple Pie

Gerald Friedman

Trumpism is part of a long history of anti-immigrant sentiment, from Benjamin Franklin to the Know Nothings of the 1840s and the KKK of the 1920s. Read more »
Taxing the Wealthy and the Art of Sophistry

John Miller

Comparing the Clinton and Trump Tax Plans Read more »
European Social Democracy
and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis

Alejandro Reuss

Part 2: The Rise of the Third Way Read more »

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the regulars

editors’ note Liberty in a Time of Crisis
the short run
Active Culture Funding Black Futures
Making Sense How Growth Can Be Green
Comment Brexit: Reykjavik-on-Thames, Redux?
in review Arlie Hothschild, Strangers in Their Own Land
ask dr. dollar Stock Buybacks: Any Positive Outcome?