Working with/in crises: More questions than answers?

This essay is the outcome of a 2025 AAG panel on crises that raised issues such as: is crisis the norm, is crisis a useful analytical frame and are we living through exceptional times? Seeking to avoid prognostication, my response provides some answers while provoking additional questions. Political economy insights are summarized for their different views on analyzing crises (from polycrisis and longwave approaches to monocausal materialism) and early/mid-2025 political developments are engaged for what at this juncture may be promising avenues for urban and economic geography (on hegemony and legitimization, economic nationalism and left politics, and deep history).