Republicans Have Normalized Voter Suppression
New polling shows many Republican voters now consider trampling voting rights a legitimate tactic. It’s a worrying trend — and a threat to democracy.
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For Women, a World of Better Sex Is Possible
In her new book, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again, Katherine Angel insists on a basic point: changing the kind of bad and damaging sex that women all too often have in a sexist society can’t fall solely on individual women.
Remembering the Socialism of Helen Keller
Helen Keller is well known to Americans as a writer, educator, and advocate for the disabled. But few know of her commitment to socialist politics as the route to a more just world.
Conservatives Love Coal Miners — Until They Go on Strike
The Right has worked hard in recent years to portray itself as defenders of beleaguered coal miners. But over a thousand miners are currently on strike in Alabama and we haven’t heard a peep about it from conservative talking heads. Weird.
Why Does the United States Support Israel?
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is one of the great crimes of the last century. It has been made possible by Israel’s utility to US imperialism.
International Solidarity Rebuilt Postwar Vietnam
During the Vietnam War, the city of Vinh was almost destroyed by US bombing. Socialists around the world helped rebuild it. Today, Vinh's architecture stands as a monument to that internationalist solidarity.
The Chamber of Commerce vs. the Unemployed
The US Chamber of Commerce is leading the charge to cut off expanded unemployment benefits for workers. Business interests want millionaire CEOs protected and austerity for unemployed workers.
Palestinians Are Refusing to Be Trampled
Israel was founded on the crime of ethnic cleansing and the principles of apartheid. The country may finally be coming apart at the seams under the weight of its own contradictions.
We Can’t Cancel Ourselves Into a Better World
In his new book, Ben Burgis argues that it’s a mistake for leftists to participate in moralistic “canceling” or retreat into a fringe subculture. We have to create an environment that feels welcoming to millions of people who want to change the world.
As an Occupier, Israel Has No Right to “Self-Defense”
By invoking self-defense, Israel changes the conversation from its colonial crimes against the Palestinians to the injuries it has itself incurred as a result.
Colombians Don’t Just Want a New Government — They Want an End to Neoliberalism
For weeks, Colombians have remained in the streets challenging their nation’s violent social and economic model.
Rachel Kushner Wants to Radicalize the Novel
Novelist Rachel Kushner, author of The Hard Crowd and The Flamethrowers, speaks to Jacobin about bourgeois novels, Italian Marxism, Palestinian resistance, the George Floyd uprising, and Bernie Sanders.