To its credit, the new Monica Lewinsky–produced documentary about cancel culture takes the issue seriously without turning it into a cultural war bludgeon. But it can’t imagine a solution that isn’t dangerous, like tech censorship.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s blistering speech yesterday powerfully connected her experience of sexism with the broader issues of patriarchy and workplace harassment. It was proof, once again, that it’s very nice having democratic socialists in office.
Jeff Sessions’ tenure as attorney general was vastly more detrimental to democracy and the rule of law than shuttering Mueller’s investigation could ever be. No one should be nostalgic for his tenure.
Life under capitalism is the experience of horror — and there is no better guide to it than Karl Marx.
Reese Witherspoon’s book club made the 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing a hit. The new film adaptation, just like the book it's based on, is pure bathos of the mushiest kind.
New York City has seen increasing chaos and immiseration under Mayor Eric Adams. It’s time for the city’s leftists and progressives to unite behind a challenger who can win.
This electoral cycle, the Right has been talking nonstop about “the border,” painting an apocalyptic picture of an immigrant invasion threatening to plunge America into chaos. In the process, they’re revealing themselves as scapegoating pseudo-populists.
The Libertarian Party is trying to position itself as an alternative to both Clinton and Trump. But there’s nothing progressive about it.
While it’s far too soon to declare victory, let’s take stock of how far political demands have come since the 1992 LA Rebellion.
A new Israeli human rights group report shows that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and detention centers during the war on Gaza are subjected to torture, sexual abuse, violence, humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, and denial of medical care.
Bill Clinton is responsible not just for eviscerating welfare, but for trying to end any Democratic Party commitment to the poor.
Proponents of Colombia's peace deal underestimated their opponents' strength and failed to mobilize their own base.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s turn to the populist right is a watershed moment in British politics.
An interview with Yusef Salaam, one of the five men of color wrongfully convicted in the 1989 Central Park jogger case.
By continuing its military assault on Gaza, massacring civilians in Rafah, and intimidating opponents into submission, Israel is taking rogue action against the International Court of Justice’s Genocide Convention — and the US is enabling it.
Life in America sucks. Average people are constantly wronged and have little recourse to justice. That's why it's so satisfying to watch Keanu Reeves kick everyone's ass over and over in the John Wick movies.
In Britain, people are now being arrested just for saying things like “Who elected him?” about the newly crowned King Charles. It’s a shocking authoritarian clampdown — and it’s being applauded by the supposedly “pro-free-speech” right.
Imagine a different inauguration. If we had a working-class party, what would it fight for?
Albert Botran is a Catalan MP whose communications were spied on by the Spanish state using spyware from Israeli firm NSO Group. He writes for Jacobin on how the scandal shows the enduring grip of antidemocratic forces over the country’s institutions.
US immigration and refugee policy has long been determined by what is most politically beneficial to the US — not who actually deserves protection.