The Bernie Coalition
In Iowa and New Hampshire, Barack Obama won over high-income liberals. Bernie Sanders’s campaign points in a different direction.
45 Article(s) by: Matt Karp
Matt Karp is an associate professor of history at Princeton University and a Jacobin contributing editor.
Bernie in the Age of Clinton
Seven tidbits from Bernie Sanders’s memoir, Outsider in the White House.
A Second Civil War
Like the abolitionists, Chris Hayes argues, climate activists must mount “a movement of dispossession.”
A Confederacy of Kidnappers
12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era's painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.
Dead White Reds
For today’s beleaguered left, it’s tempting to pine over the past. But the lives of two socialist intellectuals remind us that no one should be too nostalgic for the twentieth century.