Crypto Can’t Build a Better Internet
For all its utopian trappings, web3 tech like cryptocurrency only deepens the problem of elite control over the internet. We have an alternative.
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Albanians Are Against Jared Kushner’s Israel-Linked Venture
Albania’s government is one of the most toadyish allies to Donald Trump and Israel. Yet as Jared Kushner seeks to tarmac a protected nature reserve in the country, Albanians are saying no to their cronyish government and its international allies.
Europe’s Breadbasket
As war rages in Ukraine, farmers have abandoned their work mid-season to take up arms against Russia. Those who stayed behind are in a race to harvest their crops before stray rockets torch their fields.
The CIA Is Up To No Good in Mexico
The mysterious deaths of two CIA agents in Mexico has raised questions about the Trump White House’s increasingly belligerent actions against the Latin American left.
The Empire Still Wants to Destroy the Cuban Revolution
Trump’s latest moves against Cuba show that Washington has never accepted the island’s defiance of US power. Now is the time for solidarity with the Cuban people.
Bill Clinton’s War
Years before Dubya, President Clinton tried to get the public on board for military escalation with Iraq.
Who’s Afraid of Gen Z Socialism?
From France to India, young people have led the current wave of protests. Rather than deny the importance of generational politics, we can see it as a way that people make sense of their life chances and of the opportunities they are denied.
The Nonaligned Babel
In the center of Baghdad is a high-rise hotel, resembling a modernist version of the towers of ancient Babylon. Its transnational history reveals a different Tower of Babel altogether.
Raúl Castro’s Indictment Is a Pretext for War
Washington has spent decades protecting Cuban exile terrorists while criminalizing Cuba’s response to them. The indictment of Raúl Castro is the latest chapter in that story — and a pretext for something much worse.
Was the Ba‘ath Party Socialist?
Despite its early accomplishments, Ba‘athism was always subject to the whims of a party elite more concerned with preserving power than revolutionary transformation.
Climate Change Disaster Isn’t a Future Threat — It’s Already Here
From the historic heat wave tearing through the Pacific Northwest to temperatures "too hot for humanity" in Pakistan, the consequences of climate change are no longer a far-off threat — they're here right now.
The Wolfowitz Doctrine
In 1992, the Cold War was over. But the Defense Department was already planning for the next one.
The British Right Is Weaponizing Henry Nowak’s Killing
After white 18-year-old university student Henry Nowak was stabbed and then arrested as he lay dying, the UK’s far right seized on the case. Jacobin spoke to chronicler of the British right Daniel Trilling about what it reveals.
The Clash of Civilizations, 30 Years Later
At a time of neoliberal triumphalism and the so-called end of history, Samuel Huntington predicted ongoing conflict.
The Invisible Kuwaitis
Kuwait systematically denies citizenship to a population that has lived there since before the state existed.
Frances Stonor Saunders Exposed the Cultural Cold War
The historian Frances Stonor Saunders died recently at age 60. Her book Who Paid the Piper? pulled back the curtain on postwar CIA funding of Western cultural institutions — despite repeated attempts to censor it, including by her American publisher.
Isabella Weber on How to Defeat the Far Right
Key to a long-term solution to defeating the far right is an economic program that guarantees security to all, including the affordability of housing and other essential components of a dignified life, Isabella Weber tells Jacobin.
Profits Are Soaring. Workers’ Share of Income Is Sinking.
Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.
Wall Street Is Getting Very Nervous About AI
If you want to know whether artificial intelligence is a gigantic economic bubble, don’t just take pundits’ word for it. Major investors are now moving their money to try to protect themselves from the AI bubble popping.
Trump’s Bet on Stablecoins Puts the Financial System at Risk
US government enthusiasm about the cryptocurrency known as stablecoins is about more than Trumpian corruption or industry lobbying. It’s an attempt to lower federal borrowing costs — one that may undermine the financial system’s stability in the long run.