Betsy DeVos’s Golden Age
Betsy DeVos has spent a fortune to influence education policy. If she is confirmed as education secretary, for the first time, she can do it for free.
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The Democrats Have Been Embarrassingly Useless on Abortion
For months, the Democratic Party leadership knew the Supreme Court was preparing to gut Roe v. Wade. When it happened, they sprang into action and immediately did nothing.
France’s Presidential Election Is a One-Sided Culture War
Emmanuel Macron has often warned that France shouldn’t imitate US-style culture wars. But ahead of April’s election, the liberal president and his far-right challengers are all obsessing about what they call an “Islamo-leftist” threat to French national identity.
Let’s Take Elizabeth Warren Literally, But Not Seriously
Elizabeth Warren’s so-called Accountable Capitalism Act is a ruse. But it creates an unexpected opening for the Left.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Campaign Shows That the French Left Can Still Win
Rising poll scores bring Jean-Luc Mélenchon ever closer to making the runoff in April’s presidential election. France Insoumise’s Manon Aubry tells Jacobin how the Left is challenging the neoliberal and far-right stranglehold over the country’s politics.
Big Business Still Has Enormous Control of American Politics at Every Level
Big business has long held an outsize role in US politics. In a plague year, and as politicians prematurely push to reopen the economy, political scientist Thomas Ferguson argues that its place at the center of American life is more grotesque than ever.
This Didn’t Have to Happen
Many white workers aren't voting for Democrats this November. And we can't just blame racism.
On Democrats and Class, the Writing Was on the Wall
Two writers, Thomas Frank and Joan Williams, provided sharp insight into the Democrats’ hemorrhaging of working-class voters eight years ago. The Democratic Party ignored their perspectives. We asked them to explain how we ended up here — again.
Waging War on the Left Within the Democratic Party Won’t Work
Is it a good idea to destroy the rising socialist current within the Democratic Party, as many centrist pundits are now counseling? Just ask the Labour Party, which waged war on Jeremy Corbyn and the Left and is now in complete disarray.
Chernobyl: The Show Russiagate Wrote
HBO's Chernobyl isn’t the show this event deserves.
They’re Not Sending Their Best People to Stage a Coup in Venezuela
The recent failed invasion of Venezuela by several clown cars worth of idiotic “freedom fighters” is almost too absurd to believe. But the goofballs aside, this misadventure can only be understood in the context of Donald Trump’s increased aggression toward Venezuela and open desire to overthrow its government.
The “Forever Wars” Are Still Going. But They May Be Running on Borrowed Time.
Congress’s latest failure to pull US troops out of Syria may be more significant for demonstrating the growing appetite in both parties to rein in US adventurism overseas.
The Psychology of Russiagate
Glenn Greenwald on Russiagate and the comforting answers it offers to despondent liberals.
Politicking Without Politics
Democratic elites are delusional — you can’t subdue the reactionary right without a robust alternative political vision.
Socialists Should Be Republicans
The first generation of the GOP tried — and failed — to build a modern republic. Socialists today won’t get very far unless we finish their work.
Will UPS Teamsters Vote No?
UPS drivers are facing a contract with huge proposed concessions negotiated by James Hoffa. The only way to protect their living standards is to vote "no."
Sick and Injured Americans Are Drug Companies’ Favorite Cash Cows
Global pharmaceutical companies sell their medications in every country around the world. But only in the US do they get away with charging the extortionate prices Americans have become familiar with.
The Worst Environmentalists in the World
The New York chapter of the League of Conservation Voters is a cesspool of fossil fuel greenwashing.
The GOP Prepares to Make America Great Again — Again
We went to the Republican National Convention to better understand the strangest mainstream party in the world.
A Brief History of the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.