Public Transport Can Be Free

We don’t put coins in street lamps or pay by the minute in public parks. Here’s why we can make subway and bus fares a thing of the past.

Between Attica and Lee

A nationwide, 19-day prison strike is honoring the history of prisoner rebellion while demanding humane conditions now.

Why Doctors Are Warming to Medicare for All

Burnout, cynicism, and endless insurance red tape. As America’s private health care system crumbles, doctors are waking up to the need for Medicare for All.

Voting With Their Feet

Romania has the world’s second-highest emigration rates. Those emigrants are now taking to the streets and fighting to change the conditions that drove them out.

John Rawls, Socialist?

John Rawls is remembered as one of the twentieth century’s preeminent liberal philosophers. But by the end of his life, he was sharply critical of capitalism.

Infiltrating the Left

The FBI has long tried to destroy socialist organizations, but its actions aren’t limited to surveillance. In the sixties and seventies, informants were key — even at the top levels of left groups.

Citizens of the Present

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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.