How Children Are Made
A Jacobin glossary.
19673 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Ratified November 20, 1989
Don’t Leave the Kids Alone
Higher social spending leads to better lives for children. The United States has a long way to go.
God Bless the Child
The correlation between climbing homicide rates and child migration is too obvious to deny.
Defunding the Future
About one fifth of American children live in poverty. Their government’s negligence is to blame.
Reformism Yesterday and Social Democracy Today
We shouldn’t try to resurrect the social-democratic politics of the past. What we need is a socialist movement that pairs radical demands with mass, militant action.
The Case for a State-Owned Bank
Regulating finance won’t cut it. To combat predatory lending, we need a fully public, state-owned bank.
George Orwell and the Proles
Though his pessimism about the working class ebbed and flowed throughout his life, George Orwell ultimately saw workers as the only force that could build an egalitarian, socialist society.
The US Helped Massacre Yemeni Schoolchildren
The slaughter of forty Yemeni schoolchildren was the direct result of US imperialism and the profit-hungry arms industry.
Yes, Ronald Reagan Would Have Stood For Trump’s Treatment of the Press
Pundits would like you to think Trump’s attacks on the press are unprecedented. But previous presidents like Reagan were even worse.
Germany’s European Empire
In today’s Germany, Wolfgang Streeck argues, politicians laud “Europe” — while quietly using EU structures to advance German national interests.
The End of ETA
For more than four decades, ETA waged an armed campaign for a Basque homeland. The group’s dissolution this spring marked the end of a history of terrorist violence and bloody state repression.
The Fact-Checkers Are Clueless
CNN’s Jake Tapper is the latest mainstream journalist to attack Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All plan. And just like all the others, his fact-checking is an absolute joke.
Ninety-Minute Nationalists
Yugoslavia’s communists recruited so many football players that some even joined the partisans while still wearing their kits. But today, football in the Balkans is famous for its far-right extremism.
How to Beat Uber
A scrappy New York taxi drivers union is taking on Uber’s exploitative business model — and winning.
From Enver Hoxha to Bill Clinton
A brief history of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
You Won’t Evict Us
Ireland’s government admits that housing prices are out of control. But its inaction has forced renters to stand up to landlords for themselves.
Beyond Kinder, Gentler Capitalism
Elizabeth Warren wants to rein in capitalism’s excesses. But when those excesses are baked into the system, we can’t rein them in — we have to scrap the whole thing.
In the Trenches
Critics claim democratic socialism is pie-in-the-sky idealism. But socialists have always been at the core of reform struggles.
Hanging Over the Edge
The Genoa bridge collapse in Italy is an absolute disaster. It’s also the result of privatization and austerity.