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March/April 2025




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features


  • Musk thumb

    The Monster That Government Made

    Marie Christine Duggan

    How Elon Musk used government loans and subsidies to enrich himself. | Order this issue or subscribe.

  • Early thumb

    The Richmond Progressive Alliance Has Won Elections and Made City Hall Better for 20 Years

    Steve Early

    Here are 10 lessons for municipal reformers in other cities. | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars


  • editors’ note It’s Not Rocket Science!
  • the short run
  • cartoon AI: Pitch vs. Reality
  • making sense The Opening Moves in the New War on Workers
  • economy in narrative Marriage Plots in Two Ages of Inequality
  • in review Sorting Out the Mixed Economy, by Amy C. Offner
  • economy in numbers Climate Change Disasters and the Housing Crisis