It's Time...For Big, Beautiful, Basic Change Presented in collaboration with Democracy at Work. Don’t miss this opportunity to gather, explore, organize, and implement a big, beautiful, basic change. Join us for a conference-style plenary discussion and Q&A by some of the greatest minds of our time on what needs to be done now, before it’s ... Read more

Prof. Alex Vitale will discuss the Mamdani campaign's proposal to create a new Department of Community Safety to address a wide variety of public safety concerns independently of the NYPD. Over 50 cities have created similar departments or offices, and the results have been very positive. What will it take to get such a Department ... Read more

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This new conference is a collaborative initiative aimed at sustaining and strengthening critical political economy scholarship. While URPE has traditionally organized panels at the Eastern Economic Association’s annual conference (URPE@Easterns) alongside other organized streams in political economy, the EEA's 2026 meeting—scheduled to take place in the Dominican Republic in May—presents a number of challenges to ... Read more