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Health insurance premiums keep rising, fueled by decades of lax oversight of health care consolidation that has given hospitals and health insurers enormous market power. That power is letting insurers keep raising prices and increasing their profits.
The Left’s candidate in Chile’s presidential election is Jeannette Jara, a Communist who was until recently the country’s labor minister. She’s running on her record of boosting the minimum wage and shortening Chileans’ working hours.
A crop of progressive-minded veteran congressional candidates say they are aiming to break from the mold of military service candidates — hawkish, corporate-friendly, and weak on labor questions — favored by the Democratic Party establishment.
Donald Trump’s lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific are a brutal escalation of the United States’ long-running “war on drugs,” a bipartisan war that has seen the US involved in torture and extrajudicial killing abroad since the 1970s.
The strategies Jeffrey Epstein used to hide the money funding his sex trafficking organization were perfectly legal. In fact, they are the same legal strategies that most of the top 0.1% uses to avoid taxes and other regulations.
In Valencia, Spain, the right-wing regional president has quit over the mishandling of floods that killed 229 people. While institutional failures forced his resignation, they’ve also fed support for Vox, a far-right party that opposes action on climate change.
Syria’s interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is widely hailed as an Islamist radical gone moderate. The plaudits reflect not the real strength of Syrian democracy but international players’ belief that he can keep order.
Democratic Texas state representative James Talarico is winning Christian voters with his faith-driven progressivism. But some are alarmed about his support for expanding legal gambling — and campaign funding from a megadonor tied to casinos.
Across Latin America, Donald Trump’s aggressive moves — from tariffs to attacks on boats in the Caribbean to meddling in Argentina’s elections — is uniting progressive forces in opposition and bolstering the Left’s political prospects.
English rock group Oasis has always been a populist contradiction, rooted both in working-class culture and the individualism of post-Thatcherite Britain. But while other bands become more political, Oasis’s comeback tour offers only escapist nostalgia.
Donald Trump and the GOP say they’re taking the cost-of-living crisis seriously. The reality: they’re making it far worse.
Minja Koskela is leader of Finland’s Left Alliance. She spoke to Jacobin about how the right-wing-populist Finns Party is using its place in government to attack labor and public services, and how her party is resisting austerian dogmas.