Issue 52: Dossier
How to speak machine overlord.
How to speak machine overlord.
Two takes on our rapidly aging “Aging” issue.
At the next Jacobin party, we’ll all dance on Henry Kissinger’s grave.
A journey through your iPhone’s family tree.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Until recently, nobody could generate meaningless platitudes more efficiently than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Even before his corpse was cold, the rehabilitation of Henry Kissinger had begun.
Why settle for one bullshit job when you could have two?
The most pernicious computer viruses in history have touched millions and cost billions since the early aughts.
The US is trying to reduce its dependence on China. China is trying to be totally economically self-sufficient. But they can’t seem to let each other go.
Africa is suffering from a continent-wide debt crisis, the result of decades of dependence on predatory international finance. Ghana is its latest victim.
The current conflict in Gaza is the latest in a long series of violent clashes.
For centuries, working-class musicians have raged against the machine.
We already know about the terrifying and beautiful future promised by artificial intelligence. We’ve seen it play out on film for years.
In the good old days, we called a novelty phone line when we wanted to talk to a machine.
Jacobin’s limited podcast Organize the Unorganized tells the story of the CIO and the 1930s and ’40s labor upsurge with the help of historians and activists. Start listening today.