Bernie Isn’t Going Anywhere
Relax: getting heart stents is extremely common, and Bernie Sanders will be back in action soon. But millions of Americans who lack the senator’s generous health insurance aren’t so lucky.
20378 Article(s) by: Opal Lee
Opal Lee is a writer.
The Socialist Party in New Deal–Era America
Dwarfed by the Communist Party, the 1930s Socialist Party is often seen as a marginal force. But its successes laid the groundwork for the next generation of organizing — and its politics help us understand Bernie Sanders’s campaign today.
Will Fascism Return to the Far Right?
Today’s far right is little more than an incoherent collection of provocations. But if it grows and attains more power, it will employ the consistent ideology and clear goals of traditional fascism. That’s the danger the Left has to combat today.
“A Feminism Aimed at Liberating All Women Must Be Anti-Capitalist”
Women workers, people of color, and white men in the Rust Belt may not see each other as natural allies. But as Nancy Fraser tells Jacobin, there is a path to uniting the social majority — so long as we recognize our common enemy in capitalism.
Why the Differences Between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Matter
Denying that there are differences between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and that those differences matter, is absurd. One candidate has a suite of progressive policy proposals; the other has stronger versions of those policies plus a commitment to building a movement to win them.
Latin America’s Bitter Stalemate
The Pink Tide governments failed because they couldn’t transform the region’s economy. But the resurgent right doesn’t have a solution to the economic crisis either — and the impasse is deepening the basis for violent, reactionary politics.
Remembering the First Clash Between UAW and GM
Today’s strike at GM recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce, and workers’ willingness to take militant action to defend their rights.
Stop US Military Aid to the Philippines
Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war has killed thousands of Filipinos. It is time for the United States to stop enabling human rights violations by ending military aid to the Philippines.
It’s Morning in Joker’s America
Viewing Todd Phillips’s new film through the lens of the present misses the larger picture. In 1981, Ronald Reagan was the original Joker.
Looking at Impeachment From the Left
How should the Left view the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump? Are they a political opportunity or a distraction from the issues that leftists care about? A Jacobin roundtable.
Bernie’s Path to Victory
Don’t worry about the naysaying pundits and polls. Bernie Sanders’s road to victory is through mobilizing the kind of voters who don’t usually vote. Whether or not he can pull it off is up to us.
Everyone Deserves Dental Care
It is long past time to guarantee dental care as a right for every American. There’s only one candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary who’s fighting for dental care to be included in a robust Medicare for All plan: Bernie Sanders.
What If We Really Are Alone in the Universe?
The recent “cosmic realist” trend in hard sci-fi — expressed most severely in James Gray’s Ad Astra — comes at an existentially staggering moment for our relationship to both the planet and the cosmos.
Why Haitians Are Protesting En Masse
Mass protests in Haiti have reached a fever pitch. Their target: the country’s venal political class and its self-serving, US-backed president.
How Bernie Sanders Should Talk About Venezuela and US Intervention in Latin America
Bernie Sanders is repeatedly asked absurd questions by mainstream reporters about Venezuela. He should use such questions as an opportunity to talk about the long, bloody history of US intervention there and throughout Latin America.
It’s Still Netanyahu’s Israel
Over the past decade, Benjamin Netanyahu has remade Israeli politics in his own image. Though his career now hangs by a thread, his legacy of far-right pandering and cold-blooded “management” of Palestinian oppression will live on.
Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?
Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
We Can Dance, and It Will Be Our Revolution
Founder of the oldest professional dance school in the United States, Martha Graham refused to perform at the Nazi Olympics and created a lasting stage for political dissent. Modern dance has deep links to radical politics — and the protests of those who stepped out of the chorus line.
How France Insoumise Was Reduced to a Protest Vote
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s breakthrough in the 2017 presidential election brought France Insoumise to the heart of French public life. Yet today, as its base shrinks to a traditional far-left electorate, the movement’s very survival is in doubt.
Kamala Harris’s Signature Achievement Was a Complete Failure
Kamala Harris trumpets a criminal justice program she instituted as district attorney as proof she’s a “progressive prosecutor.” The only problem? The program utterly failed to reduce mass incarceration in California.