Katha Pollitt’s Quality Control
The nature of a product is irrelevant to how we should theorize, legislate, or organize the labor involved in producing it.
20417 Article(s) by: T Rivers
T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
Eleven Things You Didn’t Know About Clarence Thomas
The first time Clarence Thomas went to DC, it was to protest the Vietnam War.
The Comforts of Dystopia
Elites tell us the future is inevitably bright; left curmudgeons insist it’s inevitably gloomy. We don’t win from playing this game.
CORE’s Coming Out Party
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis recounts the creation of her union’s CORE caucus.
Raising Our Expectations
Jane McAlevey challenges the Left to stop lamenting its disappointments in the working class and address our own failures.
The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care
The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care.
Education Is Not the Answer
Everyone deserves a great public education, but better schools alone can’t fight inequality.
Reading Frederick Douglass at Seder
Food is the easy part of the seder. For me, the hard part is making it all mean something.
California Scheming
The University of California’s only response to successful labor organizing is violence and intimidation.
Reviving Labor From Below
The American labor movement won’t be able to revive itself without organizing at its grassroots.
FiveThirtyEight’s Venezuela Problem
When it comes to Venezuela, shoddy data work and simplistic reasoning are too often embraced.
The Shopping Mall’s Socialist Pre-History
The inventor of the American suburban shopping mall was a socialist. Could his creation have been saved?
Europe’s Forgotten People
Government policies are fueling rather than combating anti-Roma discrimination in Europe.
NYSUT’s Teachable Moment
New York State United Teachers members have an opportunity to create a broad educational justice movement — if they can move their union away from politics as usual.
Squatters of the Lower East Side
As New York City was transformed by real estate and finance interests in the 1990s, a group of squatters on the Lower East Side waged battle for affordable housing.
Power to Which People?
Progressives should be less concerned about how people are protesting and more concerned about who is mobilizing and what they’re fighting for.
Graduate Students on Strike
University of California graduate students explain why they’re striking.
The Left and Labor Strategy
The Left needs a more coherent vision for its work inside the labor movement.
Italian Communism Remembered
An interview on il manifesto, the PCI, and the road not taken between Stalinism and social democracy.
Issue 14 Preview: “A World to Win”
The new issue of Jacobin will be out in May. Here’s a sneak peek and an animated GIF to share with your friends.