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.
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.
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey makes for fantastic moviegoing. It also advances a fundamentally conservative view of society.
The United States has stopped pretending that the Monroe Doctrine was about anything other than its own freedom of action. Donald Trump has now declared dominance over the entire western hemisphere.
Karl Marx’s ideal society is taken far less seriously than his critique of capitalism. But he did offer a rich account of what a better society would look like — one built around meaningful work, mutual care, and human flourishing.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is backing the Delivery Protection Act, a piece of local legislation which would require Amazon to directly employ their drivers. It could open a lane for drivers to unionize — and is thus seen as an existential threat by Amazon.
Under the cover of earthquake response, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has dramatically reversed Colombia’s stance toward Israel, recognizing controversial Israeli claims over the occupied Golan Heights.
James Carville is threatening to leave the Democrats if socialists keep advancing. James, if you can figure out how to launch a viable centrist third party and break the bipartisan stranglehold, we socialists would welcome it.
In a wide-ranging interview with Jacobin, economist James K. Galbraith discusses how neoclassical economic orthodoxy has badly distorted US policy thinking on everything from inflation to trade policy to the fertility crisis.
Ireland’s conservative parties are weaker than ever, but the forces of the Irish left haven’t been able to cohere around an alternative. A campaign for Irish unity based on radical change in both parts of Ireland could help break the logjam.
It’s tempting to view access to housing as a generational issue, but that approach is a political dead end. It diverts our focus from the class inequalities and profiteering that are the real cause of the housing crises afflicting so many countries.
In 1948, a US-sponsored dictatorship in South Korea launched a brutal campaign of repression on the island of Jeju. Having killed up to 30,000 people — one islander in ten — Washington’s Korean clients covered up the evidence of the crime for decades.