Dora Mengüç is a journalist who previously served as news manager at Sözcü TV and has worked across major newsrooms for more than two decades. He is currently a correspondent for Deutsche Welle and writes internationally for outlets including Le Parisien Matin.
Gen Z is often dismissed as apathetic. But interviews with leading scholars suggest otherwise: a generation coming of age amid crises in housing, work, and political institutions is not losing faith in politics but in the promises of capitalism.
War, and now a fragile ceasefire, is not bringing collapse in Iran but reinforcing and reorganizing its existing structures of power and inequality.
From Trump to Orbán, Meloni to Modi, leaders around the world have turned fear, grievance, and national pride into political instruments. Their appeal does not rest on charisma alone but also on the deep insecurity produced by neoliberalism’s long crisis.
As agrochemical giants and data monopolies consolidate control over seeds, the food system becomes ever more fragile. Humanity has domesticated thousands of crops but, in pursuit of profit, corporations have winnowed that heritage down to a handful.
Ofer Cassif, among the few Israeli MPs to openly reject Zionism, tells Jacobin that Palestinian liberation is indispensable to peace and justice for all people in the region.