Obama’s Anti-Politics and the Affordable Care Act
Attacks on Obama over the rough rollout of the ACA hit the president where it hurts: his attempt to replace politics with expert management.
19186 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
The End of European Social Democracy?
Video from our Monday event with the Swedish Left Party.
Keeping Postage Public
The United States Postal Service’s manufactured fiscal crisis need not lead to the end of the public postal system.
The Last Symphony
Today’s elite lacks the patience and culture for classical music.
Syria: The Revolution That Never Was
What has happened in the Arab world since December 2010?
From the Ground Up: An Interview
What’s next for Canadian workers?
11/25 Event, Last Chance for Books, Posters
The first wave of Jacobin books will be released in early March 2014, with several more to come.
Thor 2 is a Cinematic McDonald’s Cheeseburger
Thor: The Dark World is a perfect example of how market competition does not actually provide us with the highest quality product.
Ventra Capitalists
Like so many deals before it, Chicago’s new transit privatization deal is screwing everyone but the corporation behind it.
Transgender, Dead, and Forgotten
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a time to commemorate past victims of violence — and rededicate ourselves to ending it.
Counterinsurgency’s Resurrections
No matter how many times the doctrine has proved a bloody failure, the American military keeps coming back to counterinsurgency tactics.
Social Democracy’s Incomplete Legacy
Our impulse should not be to reject social democracy’s legacy, but to build on and complete its promise.
The Rise and Fall of the Working Families Party
The WFP could have been a viable progressive force, but it lacked confidence in its own agenda.
Wall Street Isn’t Worth It
Cutting the banks down to size is good policy and good politics.
The Reactionary Sports Drug War
Steroids will continue to debase sports as long as the war against them solely targets players.
Homeland and the Imagination of National Security
Homeland’s key accomplishment is to naturalize the workings of the national security state in the Obama era.
Art and Cynicism
We hear throughout mainstream culture that we are permanently doomed to a squalid future. Artists should insist otherwise.
A Teachable Mayor
Bill de Blasio is no radical, but his election may be a sign that space is opening up for the left in New York City.
The Sicilian Klan
Founded on hostility towards peasants and workers, the mafia has always been a vicious, reactionary organization — middlemen for both landowners of the feudal era and the oligarchs of today’s capitalism.
A Statement on the Arrest of Rasmea Yousef Odeh
On the recent arrest and indictment of the longtime Palestine activist.