On Living in Space, Dying in Space, and Doing it for the Low, Low Price of $100,000

Changing Channels

The Suez Canal is a symbol of Arab nationalism. It’s also a damn good source of national income.

Sinophobia

The GOP is stoking a 21st-century Yellow Peril.

Lost in Translation

Santa Is a Pervert and your other favorite Hollywood classics.

What You Should Have Read in 2022

We published 2,500 original essays in 2022. Here’s a recap in case you missed one or two of them.

The Best Books We Read in 2022

Jacobin staffers and contributors reflect on the best books we read this year.

Class Conscience

Whatever their professed values, when it comes to the ballot box, rich people are out for themselves.

Issue 47: Letters

Finally, some good letters. We were about to give up.

Debt-Trap Democracy

We talk to activist and filmmaker Astra Taylor.

Jacobin’s Promise: a Vote for Jacobin Is a Vote for You.

Act now, before it’s too late to save America.

Ballot Blocks

Every year, it gets harder to vote. We have our elected officials to thank for that.

On dictatorship, blood in the streets, and the deadly love of your CEO

On failing at precalculus, failing at crack, and failing at capitalism

On Marxists abroad, domestic terrorists at home, and the terrible threat of an all-expenses-paid trip to Cuba

Issue 47: Misery Index

Crunching the numbers on the class war.

A Guide to Election Polling Terms

A guide to election polling terms.

Reality TV Democracy

America’s favorite television arcs toward autocracy.

Proletarian Portfolios

Union revenues and assets are on the rise — union membership is not.

A Strike for All Seasons

When and where organized labor’s been on the move.

Queen Elizabeth II’s Ghosts

In between smiling, waving, and running up a $400 million annual bill, the late Queen Elizabeth II was the face of some pretty bad stuff during her seven-decade reign.