Jonathan Sas has worked in senior policy and political roles in government, think tanks, and the labor movement. He is an honorary witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, National Post, the Tyee, and Maisonneuve.
Donald Trump’s assassinations of alleged drug traffickers in Venezuela with zero due process represent some of the greatest dangers of his second term. They can’t be understood apart from the bipartisan history of national security state overreach.
Experts warn that the one-click homebuying sites Zillow and Redfin are steering consumers to the platforms’ own mortgage lenders, squeezing out competition and discouraging buyers from finding cheaper options.
Last year, Cuba’s basketball team did the unthinkable and beat the US at the FIBA AmeriCup. Now Trump and Rubio have taken their revenge, blocking every Cuban team — from table tennis to girls’ softball — from competing in the US and Puerto Rico.
Donald Trump’s mass deportations will do little to improve the lives of American workers. But he is fueling a deportation-industrial complex that funnels billions of dollars into the hands of private companies.
Canada turned its campuses into immigration gateways, cashing in on students from abroad. The backlash is reshaping the country’s politics.
The contested region has become a flash point in India’s struggle to break its dependence on Chinese lithium.
Kuwait systematically denies citizenship to a population that has lived there since before the state existed.
Politicians might complain about illegal immigrants, but American businesses love to exploit these vulnerable workers.
Democrats are just as deportation-happy as the GOP.
In the 1980s, the Yugoslav industrial band Laibach raided history’s darkest symbols. In the 1990s, they declared independence from history itself.
During World War II, one American journalist made a not-so-modest proposal.
The Left has both a moral and strategic imperative to offer an alternative to anti-immigrant politics.
In April, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi was detained by ICE for over two weeks, despite not being charged with a crime. He spoke to Jacobin about his early life, his incarceration, and why he’s actually optimistic about the prospects for peace.
Narendra Modi transformed India’s biometric ID system from a tool for promoting social welfare into a mechanism of mass surveillance and disenfranchisement.
As borders tighten, the billions of dollars migrants send home are at risk — and so are the nations that rely on them.
The 1964 arrival of the Beatles in New York City, followed the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, heralded two generations of British musicians’ finding massive success with US audiences. But the invasion is now over.
A quick guide to border hopping.
The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic highs and tragic lows of the continent’s struggle for independence.
A unified squad could contend with the best America has to offer.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.