Issue 50: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
Search Result(s) for: “China”
Fair-Weather Friends
Social security is once again a third rail of American politics. History tells us that might not last for long.
The Iraq Invasion 20 Years Later
How the American political class brought a disaster to the Middle East.
Peace to the Huts, War on the Palaces!
For thousands of years, organized peasants have challenged rural exploitation — and even toppled governments.
An Unusable Past
Nicolas Grospierre’s photographs of collective farm buildings in Israel and the Baltic states reveal these communities’ utopian dreams — and their uncomfortable colonial underpinnings.
The Right-Wing Bid to Turn Kenya Into a “Hustler Nation”
A new president has a right-populist vision of transformation in East Africa’s largest economy.
Tech Turncoats
Elon Musk isn’t the only Silicon Valley somebody to leave the Dems in the dust.
Will Pope Leo XIV Confront MAGA?
Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pope, embodies Catholicism’s anti-nationalist ethos. Will he follow Pope Francis in confronting the resurgence of nativism in the US and abroad?
A Socialism That Invents
Why Nordic countries out-innovate the United States.
The Global Remittance Economy
As borders tighten, the billions of dollars migrants send home are at risk — and so are the nations that rely on them.
A Planet of Slums?
Mike Davis may still be right that slums will dominate the cities of the future — but his prediction was at least a decade premature.
When the Leaning Tower Leaned Left
In the 1970s, the Italian Communist Party was again on the rise in Tuscany. Then it all toppled over.
The Oligarch Upstairs
Some of the most over-the-top apartments in New York City are owned — and left empty — by überwealthy foreign nationals.
Paint the Town Red
Jacobin contributor Paul Heideman’s reading list on municipal socialism explores how workers’ movements, from Milwaukee to Liverpool, built power at the local level — and how they were defeated.