The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care
The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care.
19192 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.
Education Is Not the Answer
Everyone deserves a great public education, but better schools alone can’t fight inequality.
Reading Frederick Douglass at Seder
Food is the easy part of the seder. For me, the hard part is making it all mean something.
California Scheming
The University of California’s only response to successful labor organizing is violence and intimidation.
Reviving Labor From Below
The American labor movement won’t be able to revive itself without organizing at its grassroots.
FiveThirtyEight’s Venezuela Problem
When it comes to Venezuela, shoddy data work and simplistic reasoning are too often embraced.
The Shopping Mall’s Socialist Pre-History
The inventor of the American suburban shopping mall was a socialist. Could his creation have been saved?
Europe’s Forgotten People
Government policies are fueling rather than combating anti-Roma discrimination in Europe.
NYSUT’s Teachable Moment
New York State United Teachers members have an opportunity to create a broad educational justice movement — if they can move their union away from politics as usual.
Squatters of the Lower East Side
As New York City was transformed by real estate and finance interests in the 1990s, a group of squatters on the Lower East Side waged battle for affordable housing.
Power to Which People?
Progressives should be less concerned about how people are protesting and more concerned about who is mobilizing and what they’re fighting for.
Graduate Students on Strike
University of California graduate students explain why they’re striking.
The Left and Labor Strategy
The Left needs a more coherent vision for its work inside the labor movement.
Italian Communism Remembered
An interview on il manifesto, the PCI, and the road not taken between Stalinism and social democracy.
Issue 14 Preview: “A World to Win”
The new issue of Jacobin will be out in May. Here’s a sneak peek and an animated GIF to share with your friends.
Poverty and the “Tailspin of Culture”
Rep. Paul Ryan’s recent explanations for urban poverty don’t differ significantly from President Obama’s.
The Left and Free Speech
Is the Left more opposed to free speech today than it used to be?
Writing History with Wite-Out
PBS’s The Abolitionists relegates African Americans to little more than background scenery to a struggle against slavery won by whites.
In Defense of Density
New construction isn’t the only solution to New York’s affordable housing crisis, but the Left is wrong to dismiss it outright.
A Crack in the Wall
The barbarity of US immigration and deportation policy has led to the reemergence of mass border crossings.