Somaly Mam, Nick Kristof, and the Cult of Personality
Focusing on individuals in sex work’s “rescue industry” avoids the structures that created a fraudulent movement.
19274 Articles by: Elizabeth Mahony
After Rana Plaza
Despite international accords to protect Bangladesh’s garment workers after thousands of deaths from building collapses, little has changed in the country’s factories.
Let Them Eat Soccer
Anti–World Cup protests rage in Brazil, but political struggle has long known the beautiful game.
Rank-and-File Environmentalism
Labor is often considered hopelessly reactionary on the environment. But democratic unions can fight for both jobs and the planet.
Jacobin Radio South Africa, Ep. 3
What happened to the African National Congress?
Human Rights Watch’s Revolving Door
Human Rights Watch’s edicts and positions have often been suspiciously in line with US policy.
Higher Ed’s For-Profit Future
Few universities have embraced the corporatization of higher education with arms as wide as the University of Chicago.
Bro Bash
There’s nothing feminist about leaving numbers to the bros.
The Working Families Party and Cuomo
Before writing off the Working Families Party’s Cuomo endorsement as yet another capitulation, consider the concessions wrung out of him.
Pulling the Plug on Working Families
The Left must develop fully independent organizations outside of establishment channels.
How Progressives Got Afghanistan Wrong
The “decent left” was wrong: a blood-soaked occupation did not lead to a promising post-Taliban future.
Infotainment Journalism
Shoddy infotainment journalism makes data something to sprinkle on top of your substanceless linkbait.
Power Play
We need to get down to the work of building a radical civil society.
The New Protest Era
We are at the beginning of a new period of mass protests that will reshape American politics.
Bulletproof Neoliberalism
To understand how a body of thought became an era of capitalism requires more than intellectual history.
A Red with an FBI Badge
On reactionary novelist James Ellroy and his Underworld USA trilogy’s surprising treatment of communism and anticommunism.
Change the People
A recent book on musician Fred Ho reveals some starting points for a modern radical avant-garde.
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri Politically
Jhumpa Lahiri’s failure in The Lowland is not one of style, but of sensibility. She has little investment in the spirit of the Naxalite movement she chooses to depict.
Bad Science
Free-market academic research policies have unleashed medical quackery and scientific fraud, forcing consumers to pay premiums for discoveries we’ve already funded as taxpayers.
Unmaking Global Capitalism
Nine things to know about organizing in the belly of the beast.