The avant-garde pop star Grimes has made a heel turn away from left-wing politics toward the Silicon Valley libertarianism of her ex Elon Musk. She calls herself “a bit of a socialist, but not economically.” Let’s just call her a manic pixie dream capitalist.
The Big Data firm Palantir spent years developing lethal military tech. Now it’s leading a transformation in Silicon Valley, with tech giants abandoning their progressive posturing to join the battle for American military supremacy.
George Orwell managed to combine a conservative temperament with a socialist rejection of oppression. A lively new biography of the English radical explains how he held these contradictions together.
A growing share of world infrastructure is dominated by the eccentric, reactionary, annoying billionaire Elon Musk. He is, regrettably, a key figure to understand — which Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian set out to do in Muskism.
While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulators have fallen asleep on the job in curtailing AI data centers’ drain on energy and water resources.
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.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s dying government is planning to nationalize British Steel, but things are not quite what they seem. His proposals may lead to thousands of job losses and cash handouts to corporations.
The Left needs to show it can deliver bold, ambitious new public services. Zohran Mamdani can transform the Economic Development Corporation into an incubator for public goods that can meet the needs of all New Yorkers.
Some of the most over-the-top apartments in New York City are owned — and left empty — by überwealthy foreign nationals.
Syriza is the Left's best chance at success in a generation. But for socialists, the hard part starts after election day.
Erik Olin Wright on class, socialism, and the meaning of Marxism.
The Finnish welfare state is being eroded, and the far right has gained momentum. As the country turns one hundred, what's happened to Finland?
New "soda tax" measures show just how narrow the liberal vision has become.
What Gramsci can tell us about the relationship between fascism and liberalism — and the rise of Donald Trump.
The Second Amendment isn't the only problem — it's our whole premodern Constitution.
How Breitbart News rose on the darkest of money to hijack the conservative media — and how liberals helped them do it.
On Lana Lokteff, the women of the alt-right, and the feminization of fascism.
For a few brief weeks in France, not just a government but an entire system was called into question.
Politics in Central Europe are deadlocked between the neoliberal center and the ethnonationalist right. Can Slovenia’s left break past both?