Opal Lee is a writer.
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! swings for a radical, genre-bending reinvention of Bride of Frankenstein. But the result is a messy, overstuffed film that makes an awkward attempt at feminist relevance.
The horrors of Donald Trump’s second term didn’t come from nowhere, Cornel West argues. They’re the inevitable result of decades of neoliberal policies that built the oligarchy, which, at long last, got behind him in 2024.
As the US-Israeli war machine embarks on a new adventure in Iran, it’s worth examining one of the key states facilitating this aggression. The United Arab Emirates has pioneered a militarized corporation-state at the center of our international disorder.
From Trump to Orbán, Meloni to Modi, leaders around the world have turned fear, grievance, and national pride into political instruments. Their appeal does not rest on charisma alone but also on the deep insecurity produced by neoliberalism’s long crisis.
If unions are serious about reversing their decline, then shorter, smaller, faster first contracts might be what is needed to scale.
In Young Man in a Hurry, Gavin Newsom tries to get in front of the critiques he knows are coming. But reading the book, you can’t escape what he himself establishes: Newsom is a product of one of the most gilded patronage networks in modern US politics.
We don’t have an effective, mass antiwar movement to push back against Donald Trump’s war on Iran. We need one immediately.
Emails from the Jeffrey Epstein files show the late pedophile trying to connect far-right tech mogul Peter Thiel and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on at least six separate occasions.
Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.
A new study from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin reveals that politicians with union backgrounds campaign more aggressively for workers and vote further left — but unions rarely recruit them.
The United Workers Union is one of Australia’s largest unions, and an upcoming ballot will see members choose between militancy and the status quo.
Implementation of the White House’s return-to-office directive will be aided by the tech firm Palantir. It remains unclear why a spy-tech company should be tasked with things like “employee seat assignments.”
The CIO unionized General Motors in 1937 and saved the labor movement. Today’s unions need to do the same to Amazon if there is any hope of stopping the slow death of American labor.
As Donald Trump launches a dangerous war on Iran, understanding what really drives US imperial aggression is more urgent than ever. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, which many critics wrongly claim was about oil, offers an illuminating case study.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has revived plans to draw on frozen Russian assets to make loans to Ukraine. Yanis Varoufakis writes for Jacobin that the idea is unworkable and incompatible with efforts to move toward a ceasefire.
At their 2026 organizing conference, Young Democratic Socialists of America focused on organizing student workers, building campus movements against ICE, and preparing mass action for May Day 2028 to confront Trump’s authoritarianism.
Kristi Noem, just fired from her job as secretary of DHS amid allegations of self-dealing, staffed the department’s AI division with leadership taken directly from a tech company under contract with DHS to develop its biometric surveillance system.
Just one year ago, the idea that New Yorkers could get universal childcare was dismissed as utopian nonsense. An organized democratic socialist movement made it a reality, with the first phase launching this year.
For roughly half a century, a certain strain of American evangelical theology has taught millions of believers to read conflicts like Trump’s war with Iran not simply as geopolitics in action but as prophecy unfolding in real time. I was one of them.
Across Germany, tens of thousands of high school students went on strike on Thursday to protest the likely reintroduction of military service. Germany’s political leaders want a new generation of soldiers, but young people are against it.