Five Books on Speculation
As history and literature are quick to remind us, many a get-rich-quick scheme has ended in sorrow.
519 Article(s) by: Editors
Fruit of the Union
Union assets have skyrocketed while membership remains largely stagnant.
DJ D-Sol’s Double Life
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon knows how to drop a beat. But could he handle a drop in the markets?
Elon’s Slash-and-Burn Operation
DOGE has cut millions of dollars’ worth of grants in every state.
State of the Art
At the height of the NFT craze, the cost of some digital art surpassed that of the great masters’.
Billionaire Backtracking
Bill Ackman, one of Trump’s wealthiest backers, has struggled to keep his story straight when it comes to supporting the president’s economic policy.
New Podcast Series: Histories of the Palestinian Left
Red Star Over Palestine, a history podcast from Jacobin Radio, looks at the different strands of the Palestinian left and the role of figures like Emile Habibi, Leila Khaled, and Ghassan Kanafani in Palestinian politics and culture.
To Celebrate May Day, $1 Subscriptions
All weekend, we’re offering solidarity digital subs for $1, and print ones for $10. Subscribers get four beautiful new issues a year and access to our entire back catalog.
Taking Stock of Donald Trump’s First One Hundred Days
One hundred days into Donald Trump’s presidency, the primary victim of America’s war against the world is America.
May Day 2025 Event: Charting a Socialist Future
New York–area readers: join Bhaskar Sunkara, Nancy Fraser, and Matt Bruenig for a May Day discussion about what comes after capitalism — and how we get there.
Our Spring Issue, “Progress,” Is Here
“Progress is not automatic, linear, and irreversible; it is something that has to be fought for.”
Issue 57: Dossier
You could get invited to an eighteenth-century salon at any time. Be prepared.
Issue 57: Letters + The Internet Speaks
Email was invented for this very purpose —[email protected].
Hope Springs Eternal
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Protocols for a Better Magazine
We binged every episode of Huberman Lab. Things are getting weird.
Progress Report
We explained our issue prompt to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend five books on the idea of progress. The results — which represent the return of an AI author to Jacobin’s pages, after a somewhat clumsy chatbot interview in issue 52 — were more banal than sinister.
Veni, Vidi, Vici
How Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s mournful portrait of Rome shaped the Enlightenment’s understanding of progress.