Votes For All
By calling for the enfranchisement of the incarcerated, Bernie Sanders is carrying on a long and venerable socialist tradition of fighting for the universal right to vote.
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Bernie Is Right. We Should Immediately Expand and Improve Medicare.
Bernie Sanders is pushing to lower the eligibility age for Medicare and boost its coverage by adding dental, hearing, and vision benefits. Bernie's plan would be a huge step toward Medicare for All.
The Left Owes a Lot to Jesse Jackson
As a movement builder, spokesperson, and candidate for the presidency, Jesse Jackson’s accomplishments were massive. He was one of the towering figures of American progressive politics in his era — or any era.
Zohran Mamdani Is Bringing Bernie’s “Nevada Moment” Home
In 2020, Bernie Sanders decisively won the Nevada primary, in part because many younger immigrant voters persuaded parents and grandparents to vote for him. Zohran Mamdani’s victory, powered by similar dynamics, marks the second phase of this moment.
Protomartyr Singer Joe Casey Talks Bernie, Detroit, and Hyperexploitation of Musicians
Jacobin recently sat down with Joe Casey, lead singer of critically acclaimed rock band Protomartyr, to discuss his hometown of Detroit and the dire state of US politics and the music industry today.
Cori Bush on How She Took on the Political Establishment and Won
Cori Bush, the Ferguson activist and nurse running for Congress in St Louis, caused a political earthquake this week, unseating a powerful centrist incumbent. Yesterday, she sat down with Jacobin to talk about how she took on the political establishment's big money and won.
Cormega: “When It Comes to Art, What Kind of Artist Are You?”
We sat down with legendary rapper and New York icon Cormega to talk about his long career, battles with a brutal criminal justice system, the economics of the hip-hop industry, and why he decided to vote for Bernie Sanders.
Children’s Singer Raffi on Creating a Society That Respects and Cherishes Kids
Today is International Children’s Day. To celebrate, we spoke to beloved children’s singer Raffi about nurturing the creativity and sense of play of children, his support for Bernie Sanders, organizing against climate change and for racial justice, and how we can create a society in which we “admire and respect the young child as a whole person.”
Poor Towns In New Hampshire Voted Heavily for Bernie. Rich Towns Did the Opposite.
You only need to look at one graph to understand what happened in New Hampshire: the poorer the town, the better Bernie Sanders performed.
Don’t Blame Polarization
A discussion on American partisanship, political dysfunction, and why it’s not our passions that are the problem — it’s the Constitution itself.
Democrats Will Probably Lose the Midterms. But They Don’t Have To.
There’s no natural law that says the Democrats have to lose next year’s midterm elections. But if Democrats can’t fundamentally improve the quality of life for working-class voters, there’s good reason to think they will lose.
Socialists Can Still Change the World for the Better
Because socialists were marginalized for decades, we’ve had to build a new left almost from scratch. It’s understandable to feel demoralized by defeats. But the movement we're building is one that can still win real change.
A Mighty Wind
Democrats are endorsing striking teachers. That doesn’t mean the party’s abandoning its education agenda, but it does mean that the working class is making itself harder to ignore.
One Has to Take Sides
“Many sides” aren’t promoting racism and hatred. One side is. And ours is committed to stopping them.
Stop Trying to Make Right-Wing Social Democracy Happen. It’s Not Going to Happen.
The new magazine Compact claims to fight for a “strong social democratic state” that also defends “familial and religious” community against “libertine” corruption. That combination of right-wing morals and left-wing economics is never going to happen — and it shouldn’t.
Yesterday Was a Good Day
Socialists and leftists performed well in races around the country.
Has the Online Left Given Up?
How many of the fundamental 2010s problems — the ones that launched Occupy Wall Street and fueled Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns in the first place — have been addressed by today’s Democrats? None.
How to Argue With Your Comrades
When faced with political setbacks like Bernie Sanders’s loss, it’s easy for socialists to blame our own comrades for our defeats. But those losses are more rooted in the powerful structures we’re up against than our own failures — and while vibrant debate is critical to the Left, intraleft attacks and recriminations just exhaust and dispirit us.
A New Party of a New Type
The Democratic Party is hopelessly corporate, but election law is stacked against third parties. The Left needs an independent organization that can stay flexible about running as Democrats but behaves with the discipline of a real party.
The Bernie Generation
The millennials who support Bernie Sanders have low expectations but high hopes.