T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
The new GOP spending bill includes a $485 million budget hike for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That likely means a windfall for the shadowy aviation contractors carrying out ICE’s deportation flights.
Many of the programs Donald Trump and Elon Musk are slashing are great collective achievements of American society. Those programs show our incredible capacity to achieve a better country and world together.
As Israel has resumed its genocidal assault on Gaza in full, so too has it resumed its slaughter of journalists.
Bernie Sanders says more pro-worker candidates should run for office as independents rather than as Democrats. He’s right.
For years, the loudest opposition to school privatization has come from public-school advocates and teachers’ unions, who argue that vouchers steal tax dollars from local public schools. They are now increasingly being joined by critics on the Right.
Rural Americans need good internet and good jobs. And they were poised to get them — until Elon Musk saw an opening to grow his fortune with a plan that will provide worse internet and fewer jobs.
“Progress is not automatic, linear, and irreversible; it is something that has to be fought for.”
It’s been a rough year for movies so far — which makes the new horror hit The Monkey an enjoyable surprise.
Recent pro-European demonstrations in Italy saw top liberals call for the EU to rearm. For some, it’s a passionate rallying cry — but the diversion of more funds to the military is weakening any prospect of serious European social policy.
You could get invited to an eighteenth-century salon at any time. Be prepared.
For the electrosensitive community in Green Bank, West Virginia, the perils of progress haunt our present.
Email was invented for this very purpose —[email protected].
Labor will only survive the Trumpification of America through confrontation.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
We binged every episode of Huberman Lab. Things are getting weird.
The progress Steven Pinker identifies is real, but so is the growing gap between what is and what could be.
We explained our issue prompt to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend five books on the idea of progress. The results — which represent the return of an AI author to Jacobin’s pages, after a somewhat clumsy chatbot interview in issue 52 — were more banal than sinister.
For veteran music critic Simon Reynolds, the “avant-lumpen” sound captures how it feels to be alive today with raw voices and synthetic soundscapes.
Yesterday Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, oversaw the imprisonment of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu. In jailing his political rival, Erdoğan has joined a global club of authoritarian leaders unwilling to tolerate challengers of any kind.
The sci-fi film Things to Come debuted just before World War II. It was all too prophetic in its portrait of a society destroyed and then rebuilt by advanced technology.