Sympathy for the Devil?
Refusing to engage with Trump's base will only guarantee the growth of the far right.
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Requiem for a Chickenhawk
John Bolton is a glassy-eyed fanatic who wants to wage war on the entire world. Miraculously and thankfully, his tenure in the Trump White House before being fired by the president was largely a failure.
No More Charlottesvilles
The most important struggle in the US today is stopping the growth of the racist right-wing.
The Meaning of January 6, 2021
A long history suggests that while the crisis of the moment dictates directing the state’s security resources and personnel toward the Right, this focus will, inevitably, shift back to the Left.
Resurrecting the Antiwar Movement
Being pro-refugee must also mean being antiwar.
Doubling Down in Atlantic City
The casino workers' strike at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino is a defining battle for American labor.
Not a Revolution — Yet
The weak spots in Trump's victory show that the future still lies with Bernie's democratic-socialist coalition.
Recent Primary Results Show the GOP Is Still Sliding Toward Authoritarianism
Candidates who amplified false claims about Donald Trump winning in 2020 did very well in this month’s primaries. Their victories are one more step in the direction of authoritarianism.
Frumocracy
David Frum's new book promises a searing indictment of Donald Trump. What it delivers is an elite-friendly defense of the rotten system that produced him.
It Was Always About Inflation
Simply put, Donald Trump owes his reelection to inflation and to the fact that the Biden administration did little to address the problem in a way that helped working-class families.
The Specter of Right-Wing Nationalism
Four months into his presidency, is Donald Trump any closer to consolidating a right-wing nationalist regime?
The Donald, According to David Roth
Writer David Roth has been the preeminent chronicler of Donald Trump’s presidency. In an interview with Jacobin, Roth talks about four hallucinatory years and what makes the deranged president at the center of them tick.
Labor’s Last Chance for Solidarity
Many unions responded to past attacks by abandoning the rest of the working class. To fight Trump, that won't cut it.
Even in Exile, the Left Must Fight to Popularize Its Vision
After Trump’s victory, the Left must confront right-wing faux populism while facing a Democratic establishment hostile to the class politics that could actually defeat it. We can’t stop now, but we must organize on our own terms.
How Liberalism Betrayed the Enlightenment and Lost Its Soul
In the anti-communist climate of the Cold War, prominent liberal thinkers abandoned the Enlightenment’s ambitions for a society of real freedom and equality. The consequences have badly warped US politics to this day.
How the Democratic Party Was Hollowed Out
Democrats appear incapable of mounting a real opposition to Donald Trump. Their weakness is the result of a decades-long hollowing out of the party, in which organized labor has been displaced by a panoply of interest groups and nonprofit organizations.
War With Iran Would Be Even More Disastrous Than Iraq
The hawks in the Trump administration are raring to go to war with Iran. That would be so catastrophic it would make Iraq look quaint by comparison.
MAHA Is Going to Make America Sicker
Donald Trump has spent the last seven months flooding our food, water, and air with all kinds of very real, very horrible pollutants, including numerous cancer-causing chemicals — the exact opposite of “making America healthy again.”
The GOP Is Melting Down About Immigration
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.
Centrists Were Wrong: Left-Wing Candidates Won
It’s hard to look at Tuesday’s election results and still take seriously the centrist attack line claiming that left-wing candidates aren’t electable. We won plenty of big races to be proud of.