Nancy Folbre explores the politics of care work and future of the industry in her latest book, Making Care Work.

Season 3 episode 2 looks at recent actions taken by the Trump administration that are having significant impacts on ...

We all like to see where we are going but sometimes need to step into the dark. Consider a slightly revised version of the Parable of the Streetlight: An economist is searching for lost keys under a ...

Giuliano Fleri. For 70 years, Italy has promised a bridge across the Messina Strait. Today, the project remains unfinished.

On June 7, 1955, the Italian national newspaper La Stampa announced—with the pompous optimism typical of the postwar ...

When the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Benjamin Franklin was asked what form of government the delegates had created. His reply—“A republic, if you can keep it”—was no mere quip from an ...

The choice is stark: rule by the many, or rule by the billionaires who already act as if they own the world. Across the globe, extreme wealth has overpowered democracy. The world’s billionaires no ...

At the Aspen Ideas Climate Summit in spring 2022—one of those gatherings of the well-informed and the well-to-do so beloved by American politicians—Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the House of ...

Mainstream economics tends only to consider that which is measurable and only to value that which produces a monetary cost or benefit. Unpaid labor becomes an afterthought, something easy to dismiss ...

The inclusion of breakdancing in the Paris Olympics this year turned out to be nothing short of a spectacle. From the beginning, the sport was met with hostility and confusion. Australian squash ...

Mitski Miyawaki is a 33-year-old indie singer songwriter, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. In an interview, she said that it felt like a good place to observe the human condition, given that ...