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.
Declining birth rates around the world may pose new challenges for humanity. A new book on the topic by Elon Musk–funded economists indulges in questionable philosophy and sci-fi speculation that fails to shed much light on this important topic.
Narendra Modi’s government has launched major schemes of urban transformation in cities like Ayodhya. Behind the rhetoric of development and modernity lurks a crude Hindu nationalist chauvinism that’s seeking to erase the messy pluralism of urban life.
The Trump administration is attacking jobs and wages in the building trades, as well as the rights of immigrant workers. Building trades unions have been divided over whether to try to curry favor with the president or confront the attacks head-on.
Faced with the return of great power rivalry between the US and China and its own economic stagnation, the European Union seems as divided as ever.
Jaws is rightly celebrated as a landmark, generation-defining hit. But it’s not sufficiently recognized as a great 1970s film, exemplifying that rocky decade’s political ire, acerbic social critique, and the lingering practices of realist cinema movements.
Homelessness is often thought of either as an issue of individual moral failings or merely of bad policy. It should instead be seen as a moral crisis for our democracy, one that demands transformative economic reforms.
The Department of Justice keeps changing its story about documents related to the politically connected sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, offering contradictory reasons for refusing to release the files.
Despite what Democrats say, working-class support for Donald Trump is complicated and nuanced. Some could never be won over to a populist economic program. Others, though, are still reachable — and there are just enough of them to win elections.
It’s clear that Donald Trump will aim to make governance as difficult as possible for Zohran Mamdani’s potential New York City mayoralty. But Mamdani has a range of options available to counter the president’s attacks.
In Britain, hotels hosting refugees have become a target of anti-immigration rallies. Keir Starmer’s government is pandering to the protests — announcing a partnership with delivery app firms to identify asylum seekers working as riders.
Marxism has had a powerful influence on Indian historiography, to the displeasure of the Hindutva far right. Much of the credit lies with D. D. Kosambi, whose pioneering work applied and adapted Marxist ideas for the study of Indian history.
With David Duke as a godfather, perhaps it’s no surprise that Adrianne Black ended up on the far right. Since breaking with this toxic political scene, she’s been speaking to audiences about the potential for winning people back from racism and fascism.
The world’s oldest president, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, is running for yet another term. Biya’s autocratic rule stems directly from a brutal colonial war France waged in the 1950s and ’60s while keeping it virtually hidden from the outside world.
Congressional Republicans have delivered on the pro-Israel organization AIPAC’s wish list in the latest military spending bill, including tens of millions of dollars a year for the Israeli military to develop AI technologies.
The Right has finally managed to gut public broadcasting. Our already anemic access to news, education, and culture has taken a massive blow.
A significant portion of the abundance movement views unions as a barrier that needs to be overcome in the name of efficiency.
Best known as lead vocalist of Galaxie 500, Dean Wareham has a new solo album. He spoke to Jacobin about what it means for music to be political in times when it’s hard to watch the news.
Private equity firms have been quietly taking control of dental care over the last decade, pushing practices to cut costs and, in some cases, encouraging unnecessary and irreversible procedures.
For decades, many leftists dropped talk of economic planning due to its association with Soviet bureaucracy. But both the climate crisis and the reality of massive state intervention in capitalist economies have made democratic planning inescapable.
To keep the US happy, Mark Carney’s Liberal government is pushing Bill C-2 — expanding surveillance, limiting refugee protections, and eroding privacy in the name of national security. It’s Canada’s own PATRIOT Act, minus the excuse of an actual attack.