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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The PS Mahsud, one of Bangladesh’s aging “Orange Rocket” paddle steamboats, docked on the banks of the Buriganga river, Dhaka (2024) | Ned Wontner / All rights ...

Anyone who has transcribed a conversation knows the strangeness of the result: Speech, once written down, often looks less intelligent than it sounded. Repetitions that carried rhythm become clutter; ...

C-SPAN’s Presidential Historians Survey has become one of the most widely cited efforts to evaluate presidential performance—shaping how figures such as Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush ...

Matt Walsh: The definition of conservatism … It has no definition, I think. We talk about the words that don’t mean anything anymore, words that used to be useful and maybe used to mean something and ...

If Fordism named the operating system of the twentieth-century economy, what governs the twenty-first? Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff—a historian of global capitalism and a technology writer ...