United Auto Workers members are now voting by mail ballot for their top officers. The election will decide whether President Shawn Fain, who led 2023’s stand-up strike against the Big Three automakers, will continue the effort to reform the UAW.
Spooked by anti-billionaire talk from the Democratic Party base, ultrawealthy donors are backing Republicans this cycle. That confronts the Democrats with a choice they’ve spent years avoiding: chase big money or build mass politics.
Caparezza is one of Italy’s most inventive rappers, and one of few who combine mainstream success with political engagement. He spoke to Jacobin about music, freedom, and his hometown of Molfetta, which recently elected a communist mayor.
From Dr Frank-N-Furter to Pennywise the killer clown, Tim Curry played every role at full volume — and made a six-decade career out of refusing to be small.
The harshest critics and the biggest boosters of childcare programs are trapped in an unproductive debate. We need much more generous funding for both daycare and at-home childcare so families can choose the option that works best for them.
Daron Acemoglu, who won the Nobel Prize in 2024, is no heterodox economist. But now The Economist magazine has damned his work, because it challenges the untrammeled power of Big Tech elites.
The new slasher film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma promises “a frenzy of psychosexual mania.” What director Jane Schoenbrun delivers is tamer but considerably funnier.
For decades, Dolly Parton, who died yesterday at age 80, wrote about poverty, hard work, and the defiant pride of working-class women. The Left should steal a page from her songbook.
Ever more footballers are pressuring FIFA chief Gianni Infantino to resign after he plotted to sell off the World Cup. Removing him should be the first step in a root-and-branch reform to put the game back in the hands of players and ordinary fans.
Democratic Party centrists’ well-funded and single-minded war on socialists is leading them to take increasingly contorted, absurd positions against figures like leftist streamer Hasan Piker.
America gave Prince Harry and Meghan Markle streaming deals, sunshine, and an insane amount of money. What it couldn’t give them was a personality independent of the monarchy.
Public ownership may seem like the most obvious solution to the problems posed by AI. But purpose trusts could offer a more pluralistic form of social ownership — one that subordinates profit to a variety of public purposes.