https://jacobin.comJacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/garvey-black-nationalism-unia-trialMarcus Garvey built the largest black movement of his era on the promise of redeeming Africa. But he knew almost nothing about the continent, and his organization had nothing to offer black workers on the things that shaped their lives.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/garvey-black-nationalism-unia-trialThu, 17 Sep 2026 15:43:16 UTCPaul Prescodhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/film-retrospective-southern-gothic-criterionThe Criterion Channel’s Southern Gothic collection gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its slaveholding past look civilized. Instead, it produced a body of work steeped in rot, delusion, and violent religiosity.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/film-retrospective-southern-gothic-criterionThu, 17 Sep 2026 15:34:58 UTCEileen Joneshttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/ai-danger-sanders-data-centersBernie Sanders and AI whistleblowers warn that the tech poses grave risks to humanity, while many on the Left call this alarm “criti-hype” — an exaggeration of AI’s power that benefits Big Tech. But AI poses real dangers that we can’t afford to ignore.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/ai-danger-sanders-data-centersThu, 17 Sep 2026 14:24:41 UTCLeigh Phillipshttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/canada-eu-carney-trade-trumpInstead of fostering a more democratic path to development, Canada and the EU are strengthening alignment through fossil fuels, weapons production, and customary geopolitical maneuvering.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/canada-eu-carney-trade-trumpThu, 17 Sep 2026 13:40:57 UTCGerard Di Troliohttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/sweating-bulletsThe United States hasn’t just ignored the threat of climate change at home; it has used its military and financial might to accelerate environmental destruction around the world. In an interview with Jacobin, geographer Matt Huber explains how US imperialism stokes the fires of a burning planet.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/sweating-bulletsThu, 17 Sep 2026 13:00:00 UTCMatt Huber and Jacobinhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/us-canada-electricity-costs-generation-deregulationElectricity bills are rising, and data centers are getting the blame. But for 50 years, the American grid absorbed loads this large while real prices fell. The difference between then and now? Deregulated markets.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/us-canada-electricity-costs-generation-deregulationWed, 16 Sep 2026 18:22:19 UTCEdgardo Sepulvedahttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/yemen-ansar-allah-civil-war-saudis-iranThe Ansar Allah movement is fighting to win a civil war in Yemen but is also caught up in the regional escalation caused by the US-Israel conflict with Iran. Ansar Allah is likely to benefit from this instability.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/yemen-ansar-allah-civil-war-saudis-iranWed, 16 Sep 2026 16:28:23 UTCArron Reza Merathttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/documentary-ups-teamsters-strike-organizingWho Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/documentary-ups-teamsters-strike-organizingWed, 16 Sep 2026 15:12:53 UTCLuis Feliz Leonhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/openai-anthropic-human-extinction-criti-hypeWhen AI insiders warn that their products could wipe out humanity, they mean that their own work is maximally important and demands unprecedented investment. This extinction fantasy distracts from the real damage AI is already doing.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/openai-anthropic-human-extinction-criti-hypeWed, 16 Sep 2026 14:07:12 UTCRichard Seymourhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/an-empire-of-yieldThe primacy of the dollar is considered one of the pillars of American might, conferring exorbitant financial privileges and coercive power. But what maintains the global dollar system is in fact inseparable from what’s driving American domestic decline.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/an-empire-of-yieldWed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:00 UTCDominik A. Leusderhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/bund-socialism-zionism-holocaust-wwiiMolly Crabapple tells the story of the Jewish Labor Bund, which built a mass socialist movement in the Russian Empire and interwar Poland — fighting pogroms, rejecting Zionism, and insisting that Jewish liberation was inseparable from everyone else’s.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/bund-socialism-zionism-holocaust-wwiiTue, 15 Sep 2026 20:09:48 UTCMolly Crabapple and Daniel Denvirhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/review-acemoglu-working-class-liberalismEconomist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power. His case for institutional renewal should be taken seriously, but it needs a fuller account of class, war, and worker organization.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/review-acemoglu-working-class-liberalismTue, 15 Sep 2026 19:40:10 UTCGerard Di Troliohttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/trump-empire-decline-iran-venezuelaUS leaders have generally sought to cloak their imperialism with euphemistic rhetoric, but Trump has dropped any pretense about his shameless resource grabs. As the US grows weaker on the world stage, it’s also becoming more brazen and more dangerous.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/trump-empire-decline-iran-venezuelaTue, 15 Sep 2026 15:06:18 UTCAtul Kohlihttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/myanmar-rohingya-citizenship-ethnicity-genocideThe military dictatorship in Myanmar has lost control over much of the country to rebel forces. The status of the Rohingya people, victims of genocide, will be a crucial test of the new political order that appears to be taking shape.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/myanmar-rohingya-citizenship-ethnicity-genocideTue, 15 Sep 2026 14:09:50 UTCSushovan Dharhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/afd-crisis-system-psychology-culture-neoliberalismPundits have widely explained the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland in terms of cultural backlash or the eastern German psyche. Yet its rise is no passing disturbance but a symptom of a much deeper crisis in Europe’s social model.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/afd-crisis-system-psychology-culture-neoliberalismTue, 15 Sep 2026 13:06:55 UTCGábor Scheiringhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/amazon-bc-union-busting-laborInternal documents disclosed in a British Columbia labor case give us an incredibly detailed look into how exactly Amazon carries out its union-busting operations.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/amazon-bc-union-busting-laborMon, 14 Sep 2026 20:40:37 UTCBenjamin Y. Fonghttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/russia-putin-culture-war-conservativesTalk of defending civilizational values looms large in the thinking of Vladimir Putin and his allies. Russia’s elites both define themselves against the West and imitate US conservatives’ culture-warrior assumptions.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/russia-putin-culture-war-conservativesMon, 14 Sep 2026 18:35:45 UTCGeorgy Birgerhttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/sweden-democrats-elections-far-rightSunday’s Swedish election saw the center-left bloc narrowly defeat the outgoing right-wing government. While the Social Democrats are set to lead a new coalition, the once-mighty party has continued to lose its historic base.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/sweden-democrats-elections-far-rightMon, 14 Sep 2026 14:30:06 UTCNicola Quondamatteohttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/data-elections-working-class-voters-politicsIn an extensive new study supported by Jacobin, more than 40,000 voters evaluated nearly 800,000 candidate profiles. The results show how progressives could rebuild their working-class support.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/data-elections-working-class-voters-politicsMon, 14 Sep 2026 12:46:54 UTCEditorshttps://jacobin.com/2026/09/school-choice-vouchers-public-oppositionAmericans across the partisan divide seem increasingly fed up with school voucher schemes, which funnel public funds to unaccountable private entities. Even Betsy DeVos’s lobbying group is getting nervous about the voucher backlash.https://jacobin.com/2026/09/school-choice-vouchers-public-oppositionSun, 13 Sep 2026 12:30:00 UTCJennifer C. Berkshireen-usThu, 17 Sep 2026 15:43:16 UTCThu, 17 Sep 2026 15:50:28 UTC