Over the past few decades, scientists have been making fewer and fewer innovative breakthroughs. The blame lies with academia’s increasingly competitive, metrics-driven model, which discourages creativity and risk-taking.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance has plenty of merits, writes Matt Bruenig, but its emphasis on growth and innovation must be married to other egalitarian concerns.
John Brophy earned the moniker “Mr. CIO” in the 1930s for his excellent organizing for the Congress of Industrial Organizations. He was steadfast and never flashy, which is perhaps why he’s been forgotten. It’s also what makes him a model for our times.
Pierre Poilievre talks like a class warrior, but his policies serve the C-suite. A new book digs into the ideology and elite backing behind his faux-populist, anti-government movement.
Here's what's behind the turbulence shaking US politics — and why it will likely only get worse.
Chile's reinvigorated left is ready to finally vanquish Pinochet's legacy and reclaim democracy for the many.
Today is the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, the Chicago Teachers Union caucus that transformed the union into the powerful force it is today. CTU vice president Jackson Potter reflects on the caucus’s legacy.
The anti-Trump movement will only be successful if it takes stock of the struggles that came before it.
A small but important segment of the New Left “turned to industry,” getting jobs in steel, auto, and elsewhere to build a militant current in the US labor movement. The Rank-and-File Project is aiming to build a similar current of democratic, militant unionism today.
Only about a quarter of Albertans support independence. But the threat of rupture nevertheless has pushed Canada’s political class toward accommodation with petro-state grievance politics.
In colonial regimes, dominant conceptions of private property developed alongside racial hierarchies.
The Left in Cyprus can only reemerge if it steps out of the confines of the "national question."
The COVID-19 pandemic led millions of people to question their meaningless jobs. French socialist thinker André Gorz anticipated this shift, sketching out a vision of a new civilization that would free us from the constraints of work.
By design, the Constitution is a barrier to true democracy. But the leftist writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor thinks that we shouldn’t abandon it entirely.
Donald Trump’s overtures to the people of Greenland aren’t making a positive impact, even among those who are keen to break ties with Denmark. The island’s new coalition government is doing its best to keep Trump and J. D. Vance at arm’s length.
As Paris’s deputy mayor, Ian Brossat massively expanded the French capital’s public housing stock. He spoke to Jacobin about the left-wing city hall’s record and what lessons it might have for Zohran Mamdani in New York.
The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?
Rising temperatures and strict productivity standards make a brutal combination for Amazon warehouse workers. In Southern California, these workers are fighting to end the exclusion of indoor workers from basic workplace protection from the heat.
Without a socialist left, both inside and outside of unions, organized labor will continue to lose ground.
As the new chair of the Pennsylvania House Blue-Green Caucus, Philadelphia socialist Elizabeth Fiedler is bridging a political divide that once seemed impassable: environmental advocates and the building trades.