The French Emergency
From Algeria to the Paris attacks, French elites have used state of emergency legislation to consolidate power and repress dissent.
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With Strings Attached
Latin America’s conditional cash transfer programs don’t offer a real answer to poverty and inequity.
How the National Front Changed France
Marine Le Pen has taken the National Front into the French mainstream without shedding the party's far-right politics.
Chomsky and His Critics
Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are "never far below the surface."
Why SEIU Backed Hillary
SEIU's endorsement of Hillary Clinton displays the same shortsightedness that has contributed to labor's decline.
Argentina’s Right-Wing Awakening
No matter who prevails in today's run-off election in Argentina, the Right will emerge stronger than it's been in years.
The Austerity Backlash
The Liberal government in Quebec's attempt to impose austerity has instead galvanized thousands against it.
Abandon the Future
If there’s a lesson from Back to the Future Day, it’s that the future can’t save us.
The Socialism of Bernie Sanders
Jacobin contributors on Bernie Sanders' democratic socialism speech and what his candidacy means for the Left.
Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty
Decades of US-backed community development programs have left behind a disastrous economic and political legacy.
Don’t Mourn, Organize!
Two letters by the labor singer Joe Hill, who was executed 100 years ago today.
The Wrong Kind of Secularism
The French secular ideal of laïcité is not a misused noble idea — it is deeply flawed at its roots.