The state of Wisconsin plowed ahead with an in-person election last month despite the many clear dangers. A new study suggests exactly what many feared: a direct link between voting in person and spreading COVID–19.
A lifesaving drug's overnight price hike shows why we must fight for a radically different health care system.
Wednesday’s shooting in Charleston is part of a long history of white terrorism in the South.
Conservatives like to claim that Nordic countries succeed because they have low regulation. That's nonsense.
The horrendous proposed agreement between Greece and its creditors lays bare the euro's anti-democratic core.
It's time for a united front on the Greek left against austerity and for a rupture with the eurozone.
Another Tory government means another wave of attacks on UK unions, beginning with transport workers. There's only one way to respond: building a mass movement that can fight for workers' rights — and take industrial action over any issue a workforce sees fit.
On election day in Chile, private bus companies refused to transport working-class voters to polls to help the right-wing candidate. The Left and unions rapidly organized to counteract the boycott — and socialist candidate Gabriel Boric emerged victorious.
The pandemic was and remains brutal for average people. But not for the rich: central bank policies created 5 million new millionaires during the pandemic. It's the latest sign that our economy is rigged for the wealthy.
Ironworkers at Erie Strayer have been on strike for ten weeks. They’re fighting for a 3 percent raise, dental, and an end to the company’s draconian attendance policy. Erie offered them a nickel an hour more.
We explained our issue prompt to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend five books on the idea of progress. The results — which represent the return of an AI author to Jacobin’s pages, after a somewhat clumsy chatbot interview in issue 52 — were more banal than sinister.
Americans regularly lose access to water simply because they are poor and unable to pay their bills. Water bills are cruel and unnecessary. We should just get rid of them.
Progressives and socialists in the New York State legislature are bracing themselves for a titanic fight with the state’s real estate industry and landlord lobby over “good cause” eviction protections, a long-standing goal of the housing movement.
Republicans didn’t get their predicted “red wave” in the November midterms, but the results were hardly a repudiation of the Right: most of Donald Trump’s endorsed candidates won their races, and the GOP continues to make inroads with voters of color.
Moderates claim that Biden’s BBB failed because it simply “went too far.” The truth is that even if it had passed, it would have excluded scores of working families.
The Trump presidency is not a pathology of mass politics. It’s a problem of our billionaire political economy.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
The federal government under Joe Biden prosecuted fewer corporate crime cases than at any point in the last 30 years. Now the Trump administration is set to drop or pause more than 100 enforcement actions against corporate misconduct.
Employers take advantage of the fact that few know about DALE, a federal program that protects undocumented workers from retaliation. Helping these workers access their rights is a key step toward organizing some of the US’s most predatory workplaces.