Astra Taylor Wants to Fix the Constitution
By design, the Constitution is a barrier to true democracy. But the leftist writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor thinks that we shouldn’t abandon it entirely.
7 Article(s) by: Lauren Fadiman
Lauren Fadiman is an assistant editor at Jacobin and a PhD student in history at Yale University.
Citizens Above the Law
The growing sovereign citizen movement reflects an America that has lost faith in its democratic institutions.
The Making of the Teenager
The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.
Waves of the Future
For the electrosensitive community in Green Bank, West Virginia, the perils of progress haunt our present.
The Counterculture’s Come-to-Jesus Moment
How a corruption of New Left ideology became fodder for the religious right.
Cyberpunk Politics
Keeping hope alive at New York Comic Con — kind of.
Capitalism Is a Conspiracy
It’s easy to dismiss conspiracy theories as the powerful workings of the paranoid mind — but capitalism is the real engine of mistrust.