Kool A.D. is a rapper, author, and astrological navigator.
A Canadian wine enthusiast’s quest to uncover whether wines produced in Israeli settlements were being misleadingly labeled “Made in Israel” has set off a long legal battle. In the process, he has exposed Canada’s complicity in Israel’s occupation.
Far from being ascendant in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right politics look increasingly isolated, especially after a failed showing in the streets this week. But even with a small, reactionary minority of support, Bolsonaro can wreak serious undemocratic havoc.
Bernie Sanders is pushing to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60 and add dental, vision, and hearing coverage through the budget reconciliation plan in Congress. It would be a huge win for health justice.
Faced with uninspiring candidates, April’s French presidential election looks set to draw a historically low turnout. Jean-Luc Mélenchon insists he stands for a real alternative — but his task will be turning popular discontent into votes.
It isn’t the responsibility of a work of fiction to offer political solutions. So it’s perfectly fine that Beautiful World, Where Are You doesn’t provide any.
The War on Terror projected American power abroad with devastating consequences. But it also wrought suffering and waste at home, with consequences we’re still living with today.
Justin Trudeau claims that he wants to build a better, fairer post-pandemic Canada. If we look past the platitudes, we can see that the Liberals just want to return to business as usual.
In a predawn raid on September 2, the South Korean government arrested Yang Kyung-soo, president of the country’s largest labor confederation. Yang is the thirteenth president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions in a row to be jailed.
Michael K. Williams wasn’t just one of the most talented actors in America. He was also in the middle of a political awakening, speaking out on a range of issues from police reform to fighting poverty.
As the devastation of climate change is seen all around us, fossil-fuel companies are working overtime to avoid legal responsibility for the crisis — and offload the costs of environmental damage onto the public.
The billionaire space race has perverted what space exploration should really be about: serving society and advancing humanity.
Buffalo mayor Byron Brown lost the Democratic Party primary against socialist India Walton. Now he’s elbowed his way back on the ballot for the general election. In an interview with Jacobin, Walton argues that Brown’s defense of the status quo will lose to her vision of democratic socialism.
The far right in Europe has a long and shameful history of antisemitism. Yet as the far right seeks to renew its image and make electoral gains, emphatic support for Zionism has become a key pillar of the project, while hatred of Jews has been supplemented with newer forms of racism and xenophobia.
Ahead of the coming election, Canada’s main political parties are arguing that “foreign investors“ are causing a housing crisis. But the problem isn’t foreigners — it’s the commodification of housing.
In Beautiful World, Where Are You, the biggest obstacles aren’t material. They’re the barriers to connection and love the protagonists put in their own way.
As a matter of both principle and self-interest, Joe Biden should pull out the stops to abolish the filibuster and safeguard the right to vote, which is now under threat from GOP governments in dozens of states. So far, he seems uninterested.
A new report suggests the United States may have unfettered rights to the information countries desperately need to scale up COVID-19 vaccine production, save lives, and end the pandemic. Joe Biden needs to share that information around the globe.
In his first article since withdrawing from frontline politics, Podemos founder Pablo Iglesias argues that Spain’s resurgent nationalist right is a threat to basic democratic freedoms.
This summer, Oday Dabbagh became the first homegrown Palestinian footballer to play in Europe’s top leagues. His story is a symbol of Palestinian resistance to decades of Israel’s brutal occupation.
Frantz Fanon was one of the most influential revolutionary thinkers of the last century. His work, produced in the heat of anti-colonial revolution, is full of insights for the struggle against racism and capitalism today.