Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s deputy mayor for economic justice, Julie Su, speaks to Jacobin about her plans: “For too long, city hall policies have benefited the few but not the many in New York City.”
Rejecting the Health Care Trap of the Democrats’ Donor Class
An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to undermine Medicare for All even before Democrats regain power. Candidates like Graham Platner and Abdul El-Sayed are rejecting the ploy.
The Many Casualties of Precision Warfare
Reporting from Hawija, Iraq, our correspondent traces how the United States built a system of coalition warfare sold as precise, in which bombs fall, civilians die, and accountability is diffused across allied states.
A Pro-Palestine Lawmaker Accused of Supporting Terror
The recent highly publicized arrest of France Insoumise lawmaker Rima Hassan was the latest step in a campaign to vilify her. She spoke to Jacobin about the criminalization of Palestine solidarity.
Christian Nationalism Has Arrived in Britain
Far-right activists in Britain are increasingly adopting the rhetoric of Christian nationalism. Yet while they look to American churches for an example, their evangelical style seems unlikely to map onto Brits’ quite different attitudes toward religion.
The Making of the Teenager
The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.
Socialism cannot mean merely managing capitalism more fairly. It must point toward a society where survival is no longer contingent on the market — and where democracy extends into the economy itself.
Palestinian Solidarity Faces Growing Repression in Australia
Pro-Israel advocates in Australia want to escalate repression against critics. Their efforts are a sign of their growing weakness.
A Left Moral Vision Needs a Political Economy to Match
Gustavo Petro’s “economy for life” captures something essential about the planetary crisis. Turning it into a program requires confronting the structures that stand in the way.
Mark Carney’s Trickle-Down Nation-Building
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney touts a new era of industrial policy and state-led development. But instead of rebuilding public capacity, he is turning the state into a guarantor of private capital while asking workers to trust in trickle-down prosperity.
The Bangladeshi Left Won’t Survive If It Doesn’t Change Gears
Left-wing movements and ideas have had a major impact on the history of Bangladesh since independence. But the country’s left has failed to adapt to new circumstances and now faces a choice between wholesale renovation and a slide into irrelevance.
Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape society on their terms.
Hollywood Invented the Girlboss
The Criterion Channel’s excellent new “Office Romances” retrospective shows how Hollywood’s classic workplace comedies exposed a deep panic about women who dared to be competent.
No, Bulgaria’s New Premier Isn’t Pro-Kremlin
New Bulgarian Premier Rumen Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party is more conservative than it sounds. It’s also unfair to call it pro-Kremlin, despite alarmist claims in international media casting the party as stooges of Vladimir Putin.
Anyone Noting Israel’s Crimes Will Be Accused of “Blood Libel”
Genocide apologists have declared the New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof’s report on Israeli soldiers’ rape of Palestinians is “blood libel.” If that sounds familiar, it’s because they’ve said the same thing for three years about every Israeli war crime.
Russia’s Antiwar Prisoners Are Outcasts in Their Own Land
Over four years into Russia’s war in Ukraine, some of the Russians imprisoned in its early days are still in jail. Even people with no previous political activism have been landed with long prison sentences in order to crush dissent.