Citizens of the Present

The Soapbox Issue 30

Rational Actors

In the United States, women face the prospect of becoming mothers without necessary social protections. Many decide it’s not worth the risk.

It’s Okay to Have Children

Instead of challenging the pressures that capitalism puts on child-rearing, liberals surrender to it.

Jacobin Is for the Children

Help keep Jacobin alive for generations to come.

The Newsies Were Real

Picket lines once made the best playgrounds around.

Class Clowns

Meet the Silicon Valley “disruptors” who want to teach your kids.

The Criminalization of Youth

If we want to offer children a better future, we need to get the criminal justice system out of their lives.

Girls to the Rescue

Workers need independent and strong unions, not corporate-sponsored NGOs, to fight their bosses and support their families.

The Spoils of War

Participation trophies are actually good — give one to every child.

The Beyoncé Treatment

No mother should be forced to give birth in conditions Beyoncé wouldn’t accept for herself.

Klass and Kids’ Films

Disney-Pixar vs. Laika

Japan’s “Womenomics”

Shinzo Abe pledged to create a Japan in which “all women can shine.” But behind the glitter is a program that has little to offer working-class women.

Every Child Needs the Good Enough State

The richness of childhood needs to be embraced as a social good.

The World’s Toughest Job

“The perfect mother” is a cudgel to cut down the flesh-and-blood variety.

We Read a Bunch of Parenting Books

Now let us raise your children.

How Children Are Made

A Jacobin glossary.

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Ratified November 20, 1989

Don’t Leave the Kids Alone

Higher social spending leads to better lives for children. The United States has a long way to go.

God Bless the Child

The correlation between climbing homicide rates and child migration is too obvious to deny.