Another World Is Possible With Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Two hundred French educators explain why they're supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon in tomorrow's presidential election.
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Book-Marx #9
It’s getting warmer, Osama bin Laden is dead, bankers are creeps, and we’ve finally found time to update our blog.
There Is Nothing Confusing About Medicare for All
Medicare for All is good policy. It's also very easy to understand.
The Retreat of the Intellectuals
Ellen Meiksins Wood saw a great danger in the reluctance of today's intellectuals to criticize capitalism.
Book-Marx #7
Because there’s a whole 14.6 percent of the internet not consumed with Charlie Sheen . . .
Warrencare Doesn’t Deserve to Be Called “Medicare for All”
Warrencare and Petecare are, as proposed, structurally identical. Why do pundits insist on calling Elizabeth Warren’s health care plan “Medicare for All”?
Here’s How We Can Stop the Next Coronavirus
The response to the coronavirus shows that neither the US nor the world is ready for a global pandemic. We desperately need a public health system that rejects philanthrocapitalism and prioritizes preparedness over corporate profits.
Socialize the Animal Shelters
America’s animal shelter system is a disaster. We need a well-funded, fully public system that no longer treats animals as expendable commodities — and empowers the workers who staff public shelters.
Choosing Your Own Health Care Plan Has Nothing to Do With Freedom
Picking a health care plan isn’t an exercise in freedom — it’s an impossibly complicated, mind-numbing task seemingly designed to drive you insane. Can’t we just have Medicare for All already?
The Stimulus Bill Subsidizes Defense Contractors While Denying Direct Payments to Workers
The stimulus bill currently under consideration in Congress does not include direct payments to the millions of workers struggling to survive. That’s an outrage — and, as a further slap in the face, the legislation subsidizes defense contractors.
Eugene V. Debs: Socialist Internationalism Versus Capitalist Nationalism
This Memorial Day, we should rededicate ourselves to fighting the horrors of war. So here’s a 1916 Eugene Debs piece, never before republished, about why internationalism is at the heart of socialist politics.
We Deserve a Universal Holiday Bonus
A modest sum of money would ensure that everyone could participate in holiday traditions without breaking the bank. Let’s have the federal government pay out a universal holiday bonus.
Capitalism Is Making You Lonely
Long before the coronavirus pandemic, we were amid a growing crisis of loneliness. The problem isn’t social media, popular culture, or city living — it’s capitalism.
The Wizard of Oz’s Greenback Conspiracy
Many of the fantastical elements of The Wizard of Oz were drawn directly from the monetary debates of the 1890s.
Eugene V. Debs’s Wisdom for the New Year
During World War I, Eugene V. Debs saw socialism as the “star of hope” that might redeem a world wracked by violence. Read his message of renewal as we leave a war-torn year behind and head into a new one.
Only Class War Can Stop Climate Change
A new report shows that the world’s top 1 percent is responsible for double the emissions of the entire bottom half of the planet. The message is clear: to fight climate change, we have to fight the ruling class.
Issue 52: The Internet Speaks
At the next Jacobin party, we’ll all dance on Henry Kissinger’s grave.
How to Make the Internet a Truly Public Good
Four lessons from Ben Tarnoff’s Internet for the People.
Posting Cringe
Dispatches from Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post.
Child Poverty Is Public Policy in the UK
It’s no surprise that Tories are fine with keeping kids in poverty. But if the Labour Party refuses to oppose such a heartless policy, Labour doesn’t deserve to be in power.