Kneecap: On Palestine, History Will Stand by Us
Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap talks to Jacobin about attempts to punish the band for its vocal stance on Palestine: “[The censors] won’t stop us from speaking out.”
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A Judge’s Conflict of Interest Over Jeffrey Epstein Documents
A judge who sealed a slew of Jeffrey Epstein–related documents that could implicate others is the same Chevron-connected judge who threw the book at Steven Donziger. She has another potential conflict of interest when it comes to the Epstein files.
Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY
Not content to torment the Ivy League, Republicans are seeking authoritarian control over working-class public universities like the City University of New York. The latest salvo: allegedly firing four adjuncts for their support of Palestine.
ICE’s Budget Is Set to Triple Next Year
Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill funnels tens of billions of additional dollars to Immigration and Customs Enforcement — meaning the agency will have three times as much to spend next year as it did this year.
Israel Has Made Gaza a Hell on Earth
How much longer will we watch Israel starve children to death and massacre civilians seeking food before American political leaders put a stop to this madness?
Solving the “Crisis of Men” Requires Tackling Inequality
Working-class men in the US have fallen behind women on a number of indicators of well-being. This is not due to a battle of the sexes, but because decades of growing inequality and precarity have had differential impacts on men and women.
The Way We Understand the Cold War Is Wrong
When people talk about a new Cold War, they tend to assume they know exactly what the original Cold War was and when it ended. Renowned historian Anders Stephanson argues that the standard Cold War chronology doesn’t fit the facts.
Germany’s Far Right Wants to Trap the Left in Culture Wars
According to a leaked strategy paper, Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland sees socialist party Die Linke as a useful idiot that it can use to polarize society around culture-war issues. Die Linke shouldn’t play along.
Mohsen Mahdawi on His ICE Detention and Justice in Palestine
In April, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi was held in detention by ICE for over two weeks despite not being charged with a crime. He speaks to Jacobin about his early life, his incarceration, and why he’s actually optimistic about the prospects for peace.
US Jewish Charities Shouldn’t Be Funding West Bank Settlers
Conservative Jewish-American charitable organizations are financing settlements in the West Bank, facilitating ethnic cleansing and fueling antisemitism by connecting Jewish culture in the US to the brutal Israeli state.
Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man
Hulk Hogan, who died this week at age 71, was the most important professional wrestler who ever lived. He was also a terrible human being.
Dangerous Heat Waves Are a Workers’ Rights Issue
In the UK, Labour is advancing the Employment Rights Bill, a rare positive intervention from this government. One of its greatest flaws is that it lacks provisions to ensure worker safety in very hot weather.