The Doomer Crooner

In his sixties and seventies, the balladeer Scott Walker swerved into making some of the most aggressive, complex, and political music of our time.

Hollywood Is on Strike Against High-Tech Exploitation

Will average entertainment workers be able to eke out a living in an industry awash in cash, or will studio executives use new tech like AI to gobble it all up?

Ripe Old Rage

The French have a long history of protesting pension reforms.

The Empire Calls Back

India’s phone scam industry targets the elderly to the tune of billions each year. Its secret weapon? The loss of communal public life and family support.

How Death Became Big Business

Instead of caring for the elderly, corporate interests in elder and hospice care are looking out for their bottom line.

Stardust to Stardust

The Welfare State Can Survive the Great Aging

Workers spend their whole lives producing wealth for society, only to be told that being provided for in old age is impossible. It’s not a rollback ordinary people should accept.

Retirement Rhetoric

Not that you’ll ever need it, at this rate.

What France’s Retirees Are Fighting For

Now under siege, France’s state-run pension system has delivered a decent standard of living to millions — a reality that retired telecom workers in Marseille have experienced firsthand.

The Lost Matriarchs of Hollywood

American cinema was once full of formidable, charismatic older women. What happened to them?

Five Books on Eldercare, Here and Abroad

We asked Jacobin contributor Suzanne Gordon to recommend some titles she worked on about the crisis of aging in America.

The Making of Millennial Socialism

Jacobin has been a flagship publication of “millennial socialism,” a phenomenon that began gathering force around 2010 and first fought its way into the political arena through the 2016 Bernie campaign. How did this generational movement come to be? And where does it go now?

Kate Macintosh’s Gentle Brutalism

In 1960s London, the architect Kate Macintosh designed great modernist housing for the elderly, still beloved by its residents — but how long can it survive?

Soldiers of Misfortune

Beach Bums and Desert Dialysis

Each year, more people travel abroad for critical medical treatment as well as aesthetic plastic surgery procedures. South Asia and South America remain major destinations.

Downward Slope

After decades of rapid growth, the population of China is on the decline.

No Continent for Young Men

The average African is 19 years old. The continent’s average politician is 62 and getting older — and more authoritarian.

Japan’s Platinum Plan

The dystopian film Plan 75 imagines a society in which the aged willingly commit mass euthanasia — but it can’t imagine a society without class.

Where Communists Live Forever

Longevity on the Greek island of Ikaria remains a mystery. Could communism be the key to a longer and more fulfilling life?

AI-Assisted Apartheid

Israel wants to compile biometric profiles and security ratings for every resident of the West Bank. Amazon is helping.