Branko Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.
A crop of recent polls shows that socialism’s appeal is surprisingly broad. They also reflect a transformed US political landscape that is ripe for a socialist politician to capitalize on — if they’re willing to step up.
We don’t need to wait around for a potential artificial intelligence catastrophe sometime down the road. We can already see the havoc it’s wreaking across our society right now.
It used to be that Americans turned to GoFundMe to pay off their medical bills in a dysfunctional, privatized health care system. Now they’re doing it just to afford groceries.
Nobody seems to care anymore about the fears and threats that originally motivated the war on terror. Yet 25 years after September 11, 2001, that war continues to infect American life at home and abroad, more violently and menacingly than ever.
It’s a mark of the absurdity of US foreign policy that the country most closely associated with the 9/11 attacks, Saudi Arabia, is the one Trump wants to help potentially make a nuclear weapon — even as he fights a war with Iran over this exact issue.
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate race could decide control of the chamber. Yet some centrist Democrats are openly working to sink his campaign — because they’d rather hand the seat to a Trump-backed Republican than let the Left gain a foothold in their party.
Putting Jared Moskowitz in charge of Middle East policy isn’t just a slap in the face to Democratic voters — it’s an empowerment of a leading Democratic supporter of Trump’s disastrous Iran war and free speech crackdown.
Media coverage around Michigan’s Senate race and Abdul El-Sayed’s ties to Hasan Piker has become constant and hysterical. Less discussed: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers’s career-long advocacy for an Iran war now wreaking economic havoc on Michigan.
Democratic Party centrists’ well-funded and single-minded war on socialists is leading them to take increasingly contorted, absurd positions against figures like leftist streamer Hasan Piker.
Much of the Left has been debating “Woke 1” recently. Less discussed has been the Right’s own version of wokeness, characterized by censorship, attacks on free speech, and even jailing and deporting critics.
Francesca Hong’s defeat was a setback for the Left. But lost in discussions of the campaign’s shortcomings is how much she actually accomplished. Hong may have opened the door to a new era of politics for Wisconsin and the Left more broadly.
The years-old joke goes that centrists fight the Left harder than they fight Donald Trump. It’s no longer a joke: after “rolling over and playing dead” after 2024, centrists like Third Way are now coming back alive — to fight against socialism.
Before the votes had even been counted, some were treating last night’s Michigan result as a defeat for the Left. This is hard to square with the fact that well beyond Abdul El-Sayed’s win, progressives and socialists won major races.
The Democratic establishment said it was getting rid of the grating, cynical style of wokeness it blamed for its 2024 loss to Donald Trump. Then the Left began winning primaries, and those same Democrats changed their tune.
What is the dastardly conspiracy that the Democratic Socialists of America stands accused of by defenders of the status quo? That sinister, underhanded, authoritarian tactic of running on popular policies and winning elections.
A wage hike is desperately needed for the American working class, but higher wages can’t pay the bills if you want full-time hours and can’t get them. Legislation mandating a right to full-time work could fix this.
Is it a good idea to destroy the rising socialist current within the Democratic Party, as many centrist pundits are now counseling? Just ask the Labour Party, which waged war on Jeremy Corbyn and the Left and is now in complete disarray.
Maine Senate hopeful Troy Jackson’s history is a case study of something the Left often discusses but rarely sees: a working-class politician who emerged from workplace organizing struggles and used his power to advance pro-worker policies.
Being disastrously wrong about virtually every aspect of the Iran war has not stopped an army of hawkish pundits from continuing to try to shape US policy on the matter. From Ben Shapiro to Mark Dubowitz, here are eight of the wrongest.
Last night’s socialist sweep in New York was built on the organizing power of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has now established itself as the leading political power in the city.