Opal Lee is a writer.
Filipinos have been protesting against the theft of public funds for flood defenses by corrupt politicians. The protesters face a political class whose leading figures, President Bongbong Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, are now bitter enemies.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the US agency charged with overseeing automobile safety, including rapidly proliferating self-driving cars. The agency’s new head reportedly worked on Apple’s self-driving car project until recently.
Zohran Mamdani does not operate by the same logic as the Democratic Party establishment. Waleed Shahid explains five key aspects of how Mamdani has broken through.
Nabbed at the airport, I was thrown into Mexico’s largest immigration detention center. There I learned from my fellow detainees about the terrible secrets and horrible violence of the Darién Gap, the global epicenter of the migrant crisis.
Adam Silver became the NBA commissioner in 2014. Since then, he has wholeheartedly embraced sports gambling while making games harder for ordinary people to watch.
As Washington shuts down and safety nets vanish, Donald Trump is sending billions to rescue Argentina’s far-right government. Argentine pensioners, driven into poverty by Javier Milei’s cuts, are in the streets demanding survival.
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain lays out the union’s vision for rewriting trade rules, raising wages across North America, and challenging the race to the bottom.
Donald Trump’s $20 billion bailout of Argentina will extend a failing model of dollar dependency and austerity. By shoring up Javier Milei’s government, it basically guarantees another default.
Donald Trump has abandoned the project of neoliberal globalization in a desperate bid to reverse America’s decline. It’s cut the ground from underneath Washington’s junior partners and left the European Union floundering.
Beyond the basic project of redistribution lies a more ambitious undertaking: What if we could collectively decide what society produces, instead of letting market logic dictate our needs and desires?
France’s government has survived a confidence vote thanks to the Parti Socialiste’s abstention. While Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu promises to suspend unpopular changes to pensions, unions object that the retirement age hike has merely been delayed.
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.
The Tim Dillon Show is disorienting and disturbing. It also has a massive audience, to whom it reflects back the disorientation and disturbance of contemporary society in pseudo-personalized form.
Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s role in fighting against the Japanese Empire, brilliantly brought to life in two recent novels.
Canadian ILWU president Rob Ashton is running for New Democratic Party leadership, arguing that the party has lost touch with its base. His campaign aims to put workers back in charge.
Twitter used to represent the best of the internet. Under Elon Musk, it has become the home of AI-generated pornography and pay-to-play engagement farming, Cory Doctorow writes.
The “pro-worker” conservatism of figures like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank offers narrowly targeted measures to select workers while terrorizing immigrants and maintaining management’s control over the workplace and politics.
Ofer Cassif, among the few Israeli MPs to openly reject Zionism, tells Jacobin that Palestinian liberation is indispensable to peace and justice for all people in the region.
Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant, which joined the United Auto Workers last year, is the first in the South to have unionized through an election since 1940. As first contract negotiations stall, the UAW is gathering pledge cards for a possible strike.
The problem with Donald Trump’s recent firing of six members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board isn’t who he decided to fire — it’s the board’s very existence as a tool of colonial rule over Puerto Rico.