Rachel Maddow’s Moscow Madness
The best of the MSNBC star’s Russiagate rants.
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Our Verdict on Kamala Harris’s New Plans
Matt Bruenig reviews Kamala Harris’s new economic policy proposals — from money for first-time homebuyers to fighting grocery price gouging to an expanded child tax credit. Some of her ideas are good. Some are bad. Most are meh.
Labour’s Adventures in Pointless Means-Testing
Keir Starmer’s means-testing mania has produced its most absurd policy yet. Limiting access to the Winter Fuel Payment won’t lead to meaningful savings — but it will make it harder for low-income pensioners to access their benefits.
Count the Damn Votes
Tonight’s election returns might seem dispiriting, but that’s exactly what the Right wants — for us to preemptively concede. Our demand should be simple: just count the damn votes.
Eugene V. Debs: In a Just Society, Every Day Would Be Labor Day
On Labor Day, there’s perhaps no one better to read than Eugene V. Debs. Here’s his 1903 Labor Day message, never before republished, in which he declares, “The struggle in which we are now engaged will end only when every day is Labor Day.”
The Old World’s New Agriculture
In today’s Europe, the exploitation of migrant workers puts food on the table.
Shawn Fain’s New Year’s Resolutions
The UAW has plans to organize more than 150,000 autoworkers in 2024.
Bernie Sanders Probably Won the WFP Membership Vote
The Working Families Party won't release its membership's vote on who to endorse for president, so here’s our math: Bernie probably won.
Art Imitates Life
Oliver Stone’s controversial 1991 political thriller JFK was fiction that poked real holes in the official account of the president’s death.
Billionaire Backtracking
Bill Ackman, one of Trump’s wealthiest backers, has struggled to keep his story straight when it comes to supporting the president’s economic policy.
Allende’s Last Speech
Salvador Allende died 46 years ago today in a US-backed coup. Here's his final address, broadcast over the radio while he was barricaded in the presidential palace.
Jacobin’s Quarantine Movie List
A new canon for those stuck indoors.
Canadian Health Care Is in Need of a Defibrillator
Canadian politicians are destroying Canada’s greatest accomplishment — its health care system. The country is sliding toward health care privatization due to weak federal leadership and sustained assaults on Medicare by conservative provinces.
Mapping the Movement to Dismantle Public Education
It's not just the Koch brothers: a state by state look at the forces driving school privatization.
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
A journey through your iPhone’s family tree.
Central America’s Last Comandante
Now in hiding, César Montes led rebel forces, including the Guerrilla Army of the Poor, against US-backed dictatorships across Central America. Jacobin visited him in the Guatemalan prison where he was serving a 175-year sentence prior to his October escape.
How Liberals Created, Then Destroyed, Publicly Owned Nuclear Power
The battle over New York’s Indian Point power plant was quietly a battle for the soul of American liberalism.
A Child of the Weather Underground Looks Back
The moments of doubt and self-criticism in Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s memoir of growing up as the child of two Weather Underground leaders offer a history of the 1960s and ’70s that can inform healthier and more effective left strategy today.
A Zionist State at Any Cost
The foundation of Israel is tied up with David Ben-Gurion, its first prime minister. Through examining his life, we see how Israel’s creation was from its beginnings doomed to create an apartheid-like state maintained by an oppressor nation.