When Incarceration Kills
US prisons are horrific — so horrific, in fact, that a former top physician at Rikers Island insists in a new book that we treat incarceration itself as a cause of harm to the imprisoned.
19186 Articles by: Rob McIntyre
Rob McIntyre is a United Workers Union delegate at the Toll Kmart warehouse in Truganina.
When Bernie Sanders Did the Joe Rogan Show
Bernie Sanders’s viral appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast — terra incognita for liberal politicians — showcased his unique ability to communicate left-wing values across the ideological divide.
How a President Bernie Sanders Could Take on Wall Street
If Bernie Sanders wins the presidency, he’ll confront numerous obstacles to his agenda. To overcome those obstacles, we need a strategy to take on capital, especially Wall Street — and we need to start thinking about that strategy right now.
To Combat Xenophobic Hate, End Immigrant Worker Exploitation
Hatred of immigrants as people and exploitation of immigrants as workers go hand in hand. The antidote to both is the same: solidarity.
The “Biased Electorate” Myth Has Been Debunked Again
The deck is stacked against women and people of color seeking political office. But it’s not because of a reactionary electorate — it’s because of party elites and donors.
The Right’s Phony Class War
The populist right’s new intellectuals are abuzz about capitalism and class. Don’t be fooled. Their denunciations of “cosmopolitan elites” actually provide cover for the plunder by the rich and powerful.
After We Sacked the Ministers
Last winter, powerful student protests in Albania forced the removal of half the cabinet. Amidst the chaos in the country’s institutions, it’s time to put an end to decades of privatization and rampant speculation.
Bernie Against the Beltway
The mainstream media likes to cast Bernie Sanders as a fringe candidate. Yet the data on individual donors don’t lie: across the country, he generates more enthusiasm than any other candidate — at least, outside the Beltway.
Socialists Invented Summer Vacation
Summer at work is unbearable when we can’t look forward to some time off. In 1930s France, the labor movement made the fight for vacation a top priority — and forced bosses to pay for our time at the beach.
Jeffrey Epstein Is the Face of the Billionaire Class
The Jeffrey Epstein story is a case study of the abuses and pathologies inherent to extreme wealth. The only way to stop them is to create a world without billionaires.
“They’re Not Moving Until We Get Paid”
Harlan County miners are blocking trains full of coal until they get their back pay. One miner explains what’s at stake and whether miners like him would support the “just transition” proposed in the Green New Deal.
A Red Deal
The Green New Deal can connect every struggle to climate change. A Red Deal can build on those connections, tying Indigenous liberation to the fight to save the planet.
Go Ahead, Take the Adventure of Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood
In Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino is continuing his creative endeavor of engaging popular film forms and alternate-history structures to reimagine points of terrible disturbance in our collective past.
Going Red-Red-Green
The European elections marked a historic setback for the German left. Die Linke cochair Katja Kipping tells Jacobin how she plans to revive it.
We Need to Win Our People Back
French workers’ top electoral choice isn’t Marine Le Pen, but abstention. To mobilize their support, the Left needs to look beyond the workplace alone — and answer a deeper mood of alienation.
Bernie Should Declare Housing a Human Right
The right to housing should be part of the Green New Deal. And Bernie should help push it forward.
Socialists Should Support Sex Workers’ Rights
The criminalization of sex work is an attack on the lives and livelihoods of working-class people. Socialists should support decriminalization.
The American Legion Is Not Your Friend
The American Legion was created not as a space for former soldiers to meet and swap stories, but to bring together shock troops of the counter-revolution — an authoritarian mass movement of combat veterans.
Democracy Is a Puzzle
Democracy is about the struggle for a more equitable world — but it’s also about grappling with the messy, contingent questions that will always confront humanity.
The Appeal and Limits of Andrea Dworkin
Reading Andrea Dworkin today is still bracing. But her pessimistic, dystopian vision of a world dominated by male violence only gained currency when the utopian power of the feminist movement receded.