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Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes money as an inexhaustible and malleable public institution. According to DPF, money is public credit, a capacious tool for mobilizing everyone’s capacities to meet our needs and […]

Once a crushing cost for families desperate to stay in touch with loved ones behind bars, phone calls will now be covered by the state.

The empire’s favorite trick is to begin the historical record at the moment its enemies retaliate against its abuses.

Daniel Penny’s acquittal was not surprising, and neither is Mayor Eric Adams’ defense of Penny and law enforcement power being used against Black people.

In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York—and what they can teach a new generation of socialists.

Zoomers and millennials want to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs.

Black New Yorkers should have a semblance of confidence that their lives can’t be snuffed out without a killer being punished.

Workers in the United States once united across trade and background to fight for the 8-hour workday. Today, many lament how weak the labor movement has become, often pointing to attacks from the right to strip unions and workers of power.