Zola Carr is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, working on a dissertation on the development of experimental brain implants for psychiatric disorder.
There’s still time to avoid major unemployment cuts in twenty-four states. A look at the data makes it obvious: states that have already cut benefits should reinstate them, and states that haven’t should maintain them.
Some hawkish pundits are asking why must America leave Afghanistan when it has a permanent military presence at over 700 military bases around the world. They’re accidentally suggesting a good point: America should leave Afghanistan, and those 700 bases should go, too.
With the help of liberals and centrists, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro has politicized the military and the courts to hold onto power. For Brazil’s establishment, authoritarianism is preferable to socialism.
Biden’s political history is anything but pro-labor. But his moves thus far to strengthen workers’ rights through the National Labor Relations Board have actually been very promising.
Since becoming Labour leader, Keir Starmer has worked tirelessly to marginalize the Left through bureaucratic stitch-ups. But Starmer’s dirty tricks betray the hollowness of his project — and the game’s not up for the Labour left yet.
The establishment media loved Joe Biden until he did a good thing and tried to end the war in Afghanistan. Now they’re looking for blood.
Nina Turner reflects in Jacobin on her recent congressional campaign, the importance of continuing to fight for Medicare for All, and how the Left can still win real change.
Neither corporations nor liberals will stop climate disaster. The Left can.
Joe Biden promised to end Donald Trump’s “love affair” with tyrants like the Egyptian ruler Sisi. But now he looks set to approve a super-sized military aid package that helps prop up Sisi’s regime.
America has never fully realized the promise of either public education or democratic government. That is no coincidence: throughout US history, strong public schools have been inseparable from a strong democracy.
From Otto von Bismarck to Joe Biden, capitalist politicians have tried to cure the system’s ills without transforming society. But it takes socialists to really change the world for the better.
NBA players and other athletes have repeatedly faced bans for their use of recreational drugs. These policies are a racist holdover from the war on drugs. It’s time we scrapped them.
From exhuming Francisco Franco to funding efforts to identify his victims, Spain’s incumbent left-wing government has sought a reckoning with the country’s fascist past. But in the southern Andalusia region, the far-right Vox is driving a nationalist backlash.
About half of all bosses aren’t giving workers time to get vaccinated and recover from vaccines. Joe Biden isn’t doing enough to change that.
Rahm Emanuel has been at the center of nearly every act of Democratic evildoing of the past few decades. He’s being rewarded for that behavior with an ambassadorship to Japan.
Amazon is installing high-tech cameras inside supplier-owned delivery vehicles. Workers say the cameras are a shocking invasion of privacy as well as a safety hazard.
The Democrats threatening to help Republicans halt a budget package have taken in millions from Big Pharma and fossil fuel industries worried about losing profits if the budget passes.
OnlyFans has announced that in October the site will ban adult content. Sex workers like me who depend on the platform for their livelihoods will be hit the hardest.
The occupation of Afghanistan was a disaster — but the US’s failure is already being used to justify even longer “humanitarian interventions.” As after Vietnam, military men are using scenes of disorderly departure to prepare the ground for the next war.
