The Market Goddesses
With Ashley Madison, capitalism has reached a new low: the commodified Ideal Woman.
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Lifting the Burden
Last month's Supreme Court decision dealt a blow to the most zealous anti-abortion legislators.
Bring American Communists Out of the Shadows — and Closets
In the 20th century, American Communist Party members were portrayed as the Red Menace, an enemy within. In reality, they were ordinary people with extraordinarily complex intellectual, political, social, and romantic lives that deserve to be chronicled.
Ireland’s Fight for Choice
Ireland has the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe — but this summer they will be put to a referendum.
The Dialectic of Sex
The Dialectic of Sex, Chapter One. Published by The Women's Press, 1979. Transcribed by MIA.
The West’s Favorite Afghan
With his simplistic portraits of Afghanistan, Khaled Hosseini reinforces racist stereotypes and aids imperialism.
Ursula Le Guin Has Given Us a New Posthumous Collection of Writings
Legendary science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin has a new posthumous collection out called Space Crone. Sometimes polemical and often hilarious, it discusses feminism and radical alternatives on an intergalactic scope.
The Canton Speech
Today in 1918, Eugene V. Debs delivered the speech that landed him in jail. We reprint it here in full.
How Class-Conscious Women Garment Workers Shaped the Movement for Women’s Suffrage
On the one-hundredth anniversary of American women’s right to vote, let’s remember the working-class socialist suffragists who struggled for the franchise. And let’s devote the next hundred years to realizing their vision.
Victoria’s First Aboriginal Senator, Lidia Thorpe, Speaks to Jacobin
On October 6, Lidia Thorpe was sworn in as the first Aboriginal woman to represent Victoria in Australia’s parliament. This month, Thorpe spoke to Jacobin about a centuries-long struggle for justice.
Acts of Desperation Is a Novel About How We’re Made to Feel Powerless
Megan Nolan's debut novel, Acts of Desperation, centers on a young woman trapped in a toxic relationship with her violent boyfriend. It's also a book deeply pervaded by class — and how a social order built on domination makes us feel we have no power to free ourselves.
Abortion Without Apology
The demand for abortion has had the most success when it’s been free of preemptive compromise.
The Queen’s Gambit Created a Fictional Female Chess Grandmaster. The Soviet Union Created Dozens of Real Ones.
Soviet chess grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili has announced that she is suing Netflix for belittling her achievements in The Queen’s Gambit. Her career shows we don’t need fictional rags-to-riches stories but welfare states that allow us to realize our true potential.
In Romania, Hard-Won Abortion Rights Are Being Systematically Undermined
In 1989, Romania finally dropped its infamous policy banning all forms of birth control. But today, many women are finding it impossible to get an abortion, faced with a systematic right-wing assault against reproductive rights.
The Uses and Abuses of Manet’s Olympia
When Édouard Manet debuted his painting Olympia in 1865, critics were shocked by a nude who looked like “the Queen of Hearts after a bath.” Today they are more interested in imposing essentializing ideas of race about the black maid beside her.
For Top Democrats, Joe Biden Is No Al Franken
Two years after forcing Al Franken’s resignation from the Senate over sexual misconduct allegations, prominent Democrats now have to decide whether to stand on principle or keep silent about the latest assault accusations against Joe Biden. We asked them — and so far, most are choosing to keep silent.
In Parade, Rachel Cusk Turns a Harsh Eye to the Art World
Throughout her career, Rachel Cusk has been a forensic chronicler of her own middle-class neuroses. Parade, her latest novel, transmutes the brutal self-examination that she perfected in her memoirs into fiction.
Why They Hate Bernie
Remember the frenzied, paranoid style of right-wing anti-Clintonism? The lies, the conspiracy theories, the deeply personal disgust? Well, it’s back — only this time it’s migrated to the Democratic Party and its unhinged attacks on Bernie Sanders.
The Lost Matriarchs of Hollywood
American cinema was once full of formidable, charismatic older women. What happened to them?
The Meaning of Pope Francis
A force for both reaction and social justice, Pope Francis embodies the ambiguities of the Catholic Church.