No Scrubs
State socialism was proof: when women have economic independence from men, they don’t stick around in bad relationships.
19679 Articles by: Abigail Torre
Abigail Torre grew up in Chile and now lives in Berkeley, California where she is cochair of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.
Harry Leslie Smith (1923–2018)
The life of Harry Leslie Smith, a working-class rebel to the end, was a towering monument to socialist compassion, internationalism, and peace.
Log Off
Social media will always be destructive for the Left. We should log the fuck off.
All That Was Solid
Economic historian Adam Tooze on a decade of shattered illusions and the limits of the neoliberal imagination.
Pulling Rabbits Out of Hats
How a decade of crisis changed economics.
Asylum for the Few
US immigration and refugee policy has long been determined by what is most politically beneficial to the US — not who actually deserves protection.
Keeping Them Out, Killing Them Off
Hillary Clinton has called on Europe to harden its borders. The strategy is completely wrong, but it’s also already underway — the EU is outsourcing border enforcement to states in Africa and the Middle East.
“Our Students Need the Money Now”
The United Teachers of Los Angeles are on the precipice of a historic strike against corporate education reform.
What Is a Jacob Rees-Mogg?
Behind the façade of the bumbling upper-class twit, Britain’s right-wing tribune is playing a canny long game. His goal: injecting far-right ideas into the mainstream.
There Is No Private Violence
US refugee policy holds that only victims of political violence, not “private” acts like domestic abuse or gang violence, deserve refugee status. But we can’t talk about such violence in Central America without talking about mass incarceration and US policy in the region.
A Make or Break Year
The future of socialism hangs in the balance — and Jacobin has an important role to play.
Financial Advice for Millennials
Shoot a leprechaun, take his pot of gold.
The Move Your Money Hustle
Getting banks under control is a matter of politics, not individual consumer decisions.
In Mansions and Benzes
Ten years after the financial crisis, we see how life is treating some of our favorite Wall Street villains.
New Labour’s Boom and Bust
Ten years after the financial crisis Blairism is finally dead and buried.
From Pawns to Players
How Amalgamated Bank went from a tool for garment workers to a tool of finance capital.
Governance by Finance
Can European democracy survive the reign of unelected central bankers?
The House That Debt Built
Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena is a monument to the subprime mortgage crisis and the companies that caused it.
The Specter of Capital
How the housing crash got us believing in ghosts again.
Why Shadow Banking Is Bigger Than Ever
Despite nearly destroying the global economy in 2008, the shadow banking revolution marches on.