Trump Is Breaking His Word on Credit Card Regulation
Donald Trump has long claimed he wants to lower credit card interest rates. His regulators are intervening in a legal battle to do the opposite.
21019 Article(s) by: Julia Goodman
A Mass Strike in Minneapolis Against ICE?
General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States. But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.
Corporations Are Using Carbon Credits to Exploit Refugees
The UN is putting refugees to work in poorly paid green jobs to generate carbon credits for billion-dollar firms. It’s one of the most cynical instances of a corporate greenwashing agenda that has done little to address climate change.
Don’t Overlook Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King condemned the brutality of the Vietnam War and criticized how it drained money from housing, health care, and jobs.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Problem in the Age of AI
AI is understood to be an unstoppable force, but it is still wholly dependent on human labor to function. Whether these technologies liberate or create misery will depend on who controls their development and deployment.
Another Energy Transition Is Possible
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s dizzying history of energy consumption argues that no energy transition has ever occurred: each generation consumes more of past fuels. Not only are his claims ahistorical but they justify an unwarranted pessimism about the future.
To Give Birth or Not to Give Birth
Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness. But a healthy society would let people choose to have children or not without turning that choice into a moral adjudication.
Two Brooklyn Socialists Are Hoping to Build the Left’s Bench
Democratic socialists Eon Huntley and Christian Celeste Tate are running for New York State Assembly, hoping to grow the socialist bench in Albany. Jacobin spoke to them about their campaigns.
In the West Bank, Farmers Are Under Israeli Attack
Israel routinely confiscates what it calls uncultivated Palestinian land. In the West Bank towns of Beit Furik or Beit Dajan, farmers who refuse to be driven from their territory are subject to constant attacks by armed settlers and the Israeli army.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s Life of Class Struggle
From free speech fights to picket lines to defending political prisoners, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lived a life on the front lines for the working class.
Mayor Mamdani Can Empower New York’s Municipal Workers
New York City Hall has traditionally had an antagonistic relationship with the city’s municipal workforce. Mayor Zohran Mamdani can chart a new course, working collaboratively with city workers to deliver better public services.
China Came Late to Capitalism but Early to Its Pathologies
In China, the number of single-person households has increased along with rates of loneliness. In this respect, China is not unique. It is simply suffering from the same social dislocation affecting all advanced capitalist states.
Francesca Hong Is a Socialist Running for Wisconsin Governor
In Wisconsin, state assembly member and democratic socialist Francesca Hong has announced she is running for governor. We spoke to her about the campaign.
Military Vets in Labor Are Joining the Fight Against Trump
Military veterans are more likely than other Americans to work union jobs. Vets in the labor movement have increasingly joined and led fights against Donald Trump’s attacks on Veterans Affairs and on federal workers’ jobs and collective bargaining rights.
Toronto Is Segregating Dissent
In the wake of protests over West Bank real estate, Toronto has ring-fenced public space around dozens of synagogues. This expansion of “bubble zones” has less to do with real danger than with political lawfare against critics of Israel.
Sewer Socialism Comes to the Pennsylvania Suburbs
Norristown, Pennsylvania, is a majority-renter town with deep industrial roots. New councilmember David McMahon explains why the suburbs aren’t a monolith — and why suburbs like his are fertile ground for socialist organizing.
We’re Now in the Sopranos Stage of Imperialism
The attack on Venezuela marks the arrival of the Sopranos stage of imperialism: the transformation of US hegemony into naked extortion. As with the Mafia, loyalty may ultimately buy nothing, and deals can be broken at gunpoint.
Establishment Dems Are Pushing Gentrification, Not Socialists
Centrist Democratic leaders like Hakeem Jeffries have taken to calling socialists “Team Gentrification.” Strange, since those same establishment Democrats take real estate cash while socialist candidates like Zohran Mamdani fight for affordable housing.
Germans Are Reading Carl Schmitt in the Ruins of Atlanticism
With Atlanticism fraying, Nazi thinker Carl Schmitt is being reread in Germany as a theorist of a world divided into power blocs, a reading that Donald Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” is helping to underscore.
It’s Easy to Imagine a World Without ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only existed since 2003. There’s nothing extreme about the idea of disbanding the rogue agency.