Rank-and-File Environmentalism

Labor is often considered hopelessly reactionary on the environment. But democratic unions can fight for both jobs and the planet.

Jacobin Radio South Africa, Ep. 3

What happened to the African National Congress?

Human Rights Watch’s Revolving Door

Human Rights Watch’s edicts and positions have often been suspiciously in line with US policy.

Higher Ed’s For-Profit Future

Few universities have embraced the corporatization of higher education with arms as wide as the University of Chicago.

Bro Bash

There’s nothing feminist about leaving numbers to the bros.

The Working Families Party and Cuomo

Before writing off the Working Families Party’s Cuomo endorsement as yet another capitulation, consider the concessions wrung out of him.

Pulling the Plug on Working Families

The Left must develop fully independent organizations outside of establishment channels.

How Progressives Got Afghanistan Wrong

The “decent left” was wrong: a blood-soaked occupation did not lead to a promising post-Taliban future.

Infotainment Journalism

Shoddy infotainment journalism makes data something to sprinkle on top of your substanceless linkbait.

Power Play

We need to get down to the work of building a radical civil society.

The New Protest Era

We are at the beginning of a new period of mass protests that will reshape American politics.

Bulletproof Neoliberalism

To understand how a body of thought became an era of capitalism requires more than intellectual history.

A Red with an FBI Badge

On reactionary novelist James Ellroy and his Underworld USA trilogy’s surprising treatment of communism and anticommunism.

Change the People

A recent book on musician Fred Ho reveals some starting points for a modern radical avant-garde.

Reading Jhumpa Lahiri Politically

Jhumpa Lahiri’s failure in The Lowland is not one of style, but of sensibility. She has little investment in the spirit of the Naxalite movement she chooses to depict.

Bad Science

Free-market academic research policies have unleashed medical quackery and scientific fraud, forcing consumers to pay premiums for discoveries we’ve already funded as taxpayers.

Unmaking Global Capitalism

Nine things to know about organizing in the belly of the beast.

No Shortcuts

The need to develop a strategy that can cohere the different parts of our movement has never been clearer.

Free the Land: An Interview with Chokwe Lumumba

Chokwe Lumumba discusses popular power and the past and future of revolutionary struggle in the American South.

Pink Collar