Between Attica and Lee
A nationwide, 19-day prison strike is honoring the history of prisoner rebellion while demanding humane conditions now.
19434 Articles by: Frances Abele
Frances Abele CM is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy Emerita at Carleton University. She is a research fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and the Broadbent Institute. Much of her work focuses on indigenous-Canada relations.
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.
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.
The World’s Toughest Job
“The perfect mother” is a cudgel to cut down the flesh-and-blood variety.