US Senate candidate Abdul El‑Sayed explains to Jacobin why establishment attempts to “cancel” left-wing voices keep backfiring, how corporate money distorts democracy, and what it takes to organize a state as fractured — and as pivotal — as Michigan.
Having become the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk is wealthy at a level that the human mind can scarcely comprehend. But one idea is simple to grasp: no functioning and humane society would produce inequality of this magnitude.
After waging a destructive war at vast expense, Donald Trump has ended up in a weaker strategic position than when he started. His main achievement has been to battle-test Iran’s ability to shut down the Strait of Hormuz and disrupt the world economy.
The rioting in Belfast fits Britain’s now familiar routine of violent crimes followed by race riots. While the government promises anti-immigration crackdowns, the rioters want to unleash their rage and terrorize minorities.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Even the Founding Fathers had second thoughts about the system they had created.
In 1911, Socialist representative Victor Berger attempted a task that we must complete.
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
The problem of dark money in politics only grows larger.
For Madison and the other Framers, the danger wasn’t the power of elites but that of the mob.