Care Talk

Rejecting the Poisoned Pie:  Feminist Critiques of the Debt Economy

30 July 2026

Debt is the technology for making care a private risk rather than a public good. Around the world, feminist researchers and activists are challenging debt’s centrality to social policy.

Are You Suffering from Low T?

30 July 2026

Low Total Compensation Syndrome. It’s not you. It’s the economy—a silent epidemic affecting 51% of the population.

Reimagining the Economics of Late Life

8 June 2026

Conference at the New School takes a care perspective on the economics of aging.

We Need a Care Package!

26 May 2026

We’ve built an economy that depends on unpaid and underpaid care, but penalizes the people who provide it.

The Expendables

14 May 2026

What ancient Rome teaches us about human value in the age of AI.

War Dollars, Care Dollars  (and No Sense)

19 March 2026

What are the care costs of a senseless war?

The Shrinking Cushion of Unpaid Care

19 March 2026

What happened to the dream of a dual-earner/dual carer household?

Gen Z Meets The Motherhood Gamble

11 February 2026

The “motherhood gamble” goes viral on TikTok.

The Activist Intellectual Legacy of Eileen Boris

28 January 2026

Eileen Boris’s retirement conference looks toward the future of the history of care work.

The Care Economy Revolution

25 November 2025

Two very different projects argue that the care economy could bring about the end of capitalism as we know it.

Care is Climate Infrastructure: Report from COP30

COP30 in Belém showed that there is no possible climate justice without placing care at the center of global solutions and investments.

Taxing the Top

21 October 2025

As the distribution of both wealth and income has become unequal, political efforts to tax the top to finance investment in public goods like childcare have gained traction.