Krona Virus
A magic money tree does exist — and not just in Scandinavia. The question is who gets to shake it first.
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We Set Amazon on Fire
Millions of people stuck at home means more orders for Amazon. But squeezed Amazon employees in France and Italy didn’t want to be “essential workers” — and they launched a wave of strikes to demand a shutdown.
An Urgent Appeal for Your Support
We’ve avoided making an appeal up to this point, but if you’re able, we’d appreciate your support.
Corona C.R.E.A.M.
With the appalling Senate scandal over coronavirus insider trading, it is no longer possible to deny it: we are governed by a caste of the unimaginably rich, far removed from our realities.
We Need Better Drugs
We’re in a race with bacteria to develop new classes of antibiotics. The free market isn’t helping.
Jacobin’s Quarantine Movie List
A new canon for those stuck indoors.
A Pandemic Foretold
Thirty years ago, an urgent report about microbial threats to public health was ignored by policymakers.
When the “Unskilled” Become “Essential”
World War II made the economically impossible suddenly possible. As our capitalist states mobilize for the pandemic, the Left has another golden opportunity for worker empowerment.
The Coronavirus Wouldn’t Be Decimating Meatpacking Plants If Company Bosses Hadn’t Busted the Unions
COVID-19 is ravaging the country’s meatpacking plants, turning packinghouse workers into sacrificial lambs. But none of this was inevitable — it’s the result of companies’ decades-long assault on meatpacking unions, which destroyed workers’ ability to have a say over their working conditions.
“Black Capitalism” From Richard Nixon to Joe Biden
Joe Biden has been touting black capitalism as part of the path to racial equality. The strategy remains as futile today as when Richard Nixon pushed it fifty years ago.
Health Insurance Companies Are Pissing on You and Saying It’s Raining
Even during a pandemic, health insurance companies are both raking in huge profits and cooking up new ways to justify denying their customers’ claims. Do we really want to keep using public resources to prop up a barbaric system like this instead of establishing Medicare for All?