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The John McCain of India

Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India’s “statesmanlike” far-right leader, died this month. The praise showered on him by Indian liberals shows how far to the right the country has moved.

Booze and Socialism

German socialists knew the craze for schnapps was a plague on working-class life. They fought it by building their organizations around beer.

“This System Is a Moral Horror”

Franklin Bynum is a socialist candidate for judge in Houston. In an interview, he explains his vision for criminal-justice reform, nonprofits' attempts at co-opting reform, and why "capitalism drives the horrors of this system."

Medicare for All Is a Money Saver

Need another reason to love Medicare for All? Bernie Sanders's plan is so much cheaper than the alternatives that passing it would make it easier to fund other social programs.

Become a Jacobin Intern

In New York or Chicago? Planning to spend next semester learning bourgeois nonsense like calculus? Intern at Jacobin instead.