Puerto Rico’s Water Crisis Is Also a Debt Crisis
This summer’s water crisis in Puerto Rico is the latest example of the slow violence of the Puerto Rican debt crisis, exacerbated by patterns of remilitarization in the archipelago.
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What American Doctor Saw in Gaza's Hospitals
The director of American Doctor talks to Jacobin about her documentary on three US volunteer physicians who worked in a besieged Gaza hospital — and the wall of disbelief that met them when they came home and told others what they saw.
While Trump Cuts Food Aid, ICE Sits on $100 Billion
Five million people have lost food assistance since Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Meanwhile, ICE has received $113 billion from the GOP’s reconciliation bills — and spent just 12% of it.
The Rise and Fall of the Elite University
Twilight of the Dons, historian Colin Kidd’s dazzling study of Britain’s elite universities, opens a window into a lost world in which, for a brief period, mass democracy combined with the idea of scholarship as a vocation open to anyone.
Donald Trump’s Coalition Is Coming Apart
The working-class voters who delivered Donald Trump’s 2024 victory have steadily slipped away in 2026 according to new polling. But few of them are switching to the Democrats.
The Trump Administration Has Been Spying on Labor Unions
Earlier this year in Minnesota, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security infiltrated and surveilled meetings of nonprofit groups and two of the US’s biggest labor unions, the Communications Workers of America and the Service Employees International Union.
Capitalism Is Killing Summer
Everybody loves summertime. But from climate change to budget cuts on public spaces like parks and pools to a lack of vacation time, capitalism is increasingly robbing us of our summer fun.
Kate Bronfenbrenner, the Union Organizer’s Scholar
Kate Bronfenbrenner, who retired this year from Cornell University, has studied how workers win unions, how employers stop them, and how organizers can learn from one another for four decades. Her findings have changed how unions think about organizing.
German Christian Democrats Are Paralyzed by a Far-Right Surge
Next month’s state elections in Germany could see the Alternative für Deutschland reach power for the first time. The ruling Christian Democrats seem paralyzed and are increasingly imitating their rising far-right rival.
The Legal Paths to Hoarding Political and Economic Power
At the same time that the Supreme Court is making the political landscape less competitive, a series of corporate law developments are concentrating power within the commanding heights of the data economy.
The Dangerous Rise of Victimhood Nationalism
From Israel and Russia to Germany and Japan, we can find nationalists laying claim to a state of perpetual victimhood to justify present-day chauvinism. This brand of “victimhood nationalism” is becoming a powerful and pernicious force in global politics.
The Odyssey Is a Thrilling, Reactionary Lament
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey makes for fantastic moviegoing. It also advances a fundamentally conservative view of society.