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19851 Articles by: Yi San
Yi San is a freelance writer based in New York.
How Israel’s War Economy Defied Economic Predictions
Many observers thought that years of prolonged war would cripple Israel’s economy. But the opposite has happened. By giving billions of shekels in compensation to reservists, Israel has managed to keep its citizens spending while Gaza burns.
In Venezuela, Trump Is Engaged in Plain and Simple Murder
Donald Trump’s assassinations of alleged drug traffickers in Venezuela with zero due process represent some of the greatest dangers of his second term. They can’t be understood apart from the bipartisan history of national security state overreach.
Zillow and Redfin May Be Steering Homebuyers Into Bad Deals
Experts warn that the one-click homebuying sites Zillow and Redfin are steering consumers to the platforms’ own mortgage lenders, squeezing out competition and discouraging buyers from finding cheaper options.
Trump and Rubio’s Petty War on Cuban Athletes
Last year, Cuba’s basketball team did the unthinkable and beat the US at the FIBA AmeriCup. Now Trump and Rubio have taken their revenge, blocking every Cuban team — from table tennis to girls’ softball — from competing in the US and Puerto Rico.
The Economics of Donald Trump’s Mass Deportations
Donald Trump’s mass deportations will do little to improve the lives of American workers. But he is fueling a deportation-industrial complex that funnels billions of dollars into the hands of private companies.
The Borderland Where Fascism Learned to Rule
Italian Fascists honed their ideology in Venezia Giulia, fusing anti-Slavic racism with anti-communist repression.
Welcome to Canada. Here’s Your Tuition Invoice.
Canada turned its campuses into immigration gateways, cashing in on students from abroad. The backlash is reshaping the country’s politics.
The Other Conflict in Kashmir
The contested region has become a flash point in India’s struggle to break its dependence on Chinese lithium.
The Invisible Kuwaitis
Kuwait systematically denies citizenship to a population that has lived there since before the state existed.
America Runs on Undocumented Labor
Politicians might complain about illegal immigrants, but American businesses love to exploit these vulnerable workers.
No Friends Here
Democrats are just as deportation-happy as the GOP.
Can 15,000 NSK Citizens Be Wrong?
In the 1980s, the Yugoslav industrial band Laibach raided history’s darkest symbols. In the 1990s, they declared independence from history itself.
Need Germany Exist?
During World War II, one American journalist made a not-so-modest proposal.
From Scapegoats to Citizens
The Left has both a moral and strategic imperative to offer an alternative to anti-immigrant politics.
Shawn Fain: “Solidarity Doesn’t Stop at the Border”
United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain lays out the union’s vision for rewriting trade rules, raising wages across North America, and challenging the race to the bottom.
Mohsen Mahdawi Is Undeterred
In April, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi was detained by ICE for over two weeks, despite not being charged with a crime. He spoke to Jacobin about his early life, his incarceration, and why he’s actually optimistic about the prospects for peace.
Britain’s Made-Up Migrant Crisis
Political fearmongering about the effects of immigration on the British economy doesn’t track with reality.
Citizenship by Algorithm
How India’s biometric ID system turned the promise of social welfare into a tool of mass surveillance and disenfranchisement.
The Global Remittance Economy
As borders tighten, the billions of dollars migrants send home are at risk — and so are the nations that rely on them.