The career trajectory of Byron Brown, the write-in incumbent running against socialist India Walton for mayor of Buffalo, is familiar to US cities: a young reformer who took on the city's corrupt establishment — and who soon embodied the very corruption he'd run against.
Even before the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, enslaved women struggled for the passage of the Enlistment Act of 1865 and their own emancipation.
The Right’s newfound love of censorship proves what many suspected: its free speech absolutism was always conditional. Just ask Jacobin contributor Yves Engler, recently jailed in Canada for five days for online criticism of Israel’s supporters.
For Chileans who resisted Augusto Pinochet’s regime, the election of left-wing president Gabriel Boric offered hope. Yet the rejection of a proposed new constitution threatens to hobble his government and reverse the democratic breakthrough of recent years.
With Zohran Mamdani on the cusp of victory in New York City, the Left should learn from the ups and downs of embattled Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson.
The Right says Ketanji Brown Jackson is a radical Trojan horse. Liberals say she’s a progressive champion. The truth is that her record contains plenty to cheer, but also plenty to be worried about.
One reason the corporate elite has an interest in antiabortion policies is because they hope to lower the price of labor — the labor of bearing and rearing children.
In India, Muslim women who dare to criticize Narendra Modi’s government routinely meet with vile sexual harassment. Far from just nasty words, it’s part of a culture of often violent attacks on minority women, defended by the far-right ruling party.
Fires are ravaging Australia, but its government is only doubling down on coal and gas. A transition away from fossil fuels is needed more than ever, in Australia and everywhere else.
As its voter base collapses, Germany’s once-mass Social Democratic Party appears to be headed into the political abyss. To make things worse, its leaders think the answer lies in a further shift to the right.
Andrew Tate offers his fans a sense of purpose by telling them to unleash man’s “primal” drives. Built on dubious evolutionary psychology, Tate's “manosphere” doesn’t reflect an age-old human nature but rather an empty, neoliberal view of freedom.
The country and the planet are engulfed in climate disasters. But the consensus at one of the country’s biggest fossil-fuel summits is that only the fossil-fuel capitalists that caused this crisis can be trusted to save us.
The global birth rate collapse threatens more than economic dynamism and the viability of the welfare state. It poses a threat to the future of radical politics.
As Quebecers head to the polls on Monday, the waning sovereignty movement has lost ground to insular, xenophobic traditionalism. In an increasingly disenfranchised society, an exclusionary Quebec is a sign of fractured federalism.
The Yellow Vests movement has faced shocking police violence. And it’s not just from a few bad apples: it’s part of President Macron’s strategy to silence protest.
From the beginning, International Women's Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.
Feminism is about fighting for a good life for everyone, regardless of gender, race, or income. We can’t achieve that under capitalism.
Forget partisan finger-pointing. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal cuts across party lines, indicting economic and political elites alike.
Claudia Sheinbaum won Mexico’s presidential election thanks to her party’s record of passing universal social policies, respecting working-class voters, and rejecting biased media narratives.
Brazil’s 1988 post-dictatorship constitution enshrined a broad range of social rights and a modest welfare state. Since taking office a year ago, Jair Bolsonaro and his band of paranoid reactionaries have dedicated themselves to attacking and undermining those rights.