The Other Game Seven
Beyond the drama on the basketball court is the story of sports owners and how they reshape the cities they do business in.
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Yes, Tulsi Gabbard Opposed the Iran Deal
The Hawaii congresswoman has repeatedly shifted her rhetoric on Iran. But when she calls herself a “hawk,” believe her.
When Harlem Renaissance Novelist Claude McKay Decamped for the Port of Marseille
Struggling for cash in the late 1920s, Harlem Renaissance trailblazer Claude McKay found casual work as a docker in Marseille. Finally published this year, his Romance in Marseille illuminates the city with both personal emotion and a vivid class feeling — testament to the tough fight for solidarity among the migrant proletariat.
The Fighting Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Has Halted — But a Deep-Rooted Conflict Remains
This morning, Azerbaijan and Armenia agreed to a cease-fire after almost two weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. But like after the last truce in 1994, there can be no enduring peace without a political solution — one that overcomes the violent legacy of the Soviet collapse in the Caucasus.
A Liberal “Moral Reckoning” Can’t Solve the Problems That Plague Black Americans
If we view the problems of poverty, health care, and criminal justice through a lens that filters out the political-economic underpinnings of these injustices — informed by the language of moral reckoning — we may just end up with modest reforms at best and symbolic gestures at worst, when what we need is fundamental structural change.
Magical Realism, and Other Neoliberal Delusions
Ten observations on the presidential race and the state of American politics.
The Conservative Movement Has No Decency
Framing Donald Trump as an indecent anomaly exonerates the movement and party that produced him.
After Ayotzinapa
The massacre of forty-three students sparked months of protests in Mexico. Can the Left turn outrage into political power?
The Death of Ricky Ray Rector
How the execution of a mentally ill black man delivered Bill Clinton into the Oval Office.
Development From Below
Capitalists are interested in profit, not development. Only workers can empower the Global South.
Silent Majority Music
To put it most unkindly, trap music is adult contemporary for the prosumer age.
In Defense of Busing
Busing wasn't an experiment imposed by elites; it was part of a grassroots movement demanding quality education for all.
A New Worker Upsurge in Pro Golf, Brought to You by Saudi Arabia
With its upstart golf league, LIV Golf, Saudi Arabia has picked a fight with the American golf establishment. And because that establishment has stiffed so many pro golfers for so long, the Saudis appear to be winning.
A. Philip Randolph Was Once “the Most Dangerous Negro in America”
The organizer of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech was also the leader of the first successful black labor union. For A. Philip Randolph, labor and civil rights were one and the same.
For Father Luis Olivares, Christianity Was a Radical Doctrine
This Easter, we remember the life of Father Luis Olivares, a leader in the sanctuary movement of the 1980s and a proponent of liberation theology. To him, Christianity was a call to stand with the poor and oppressed of the world.
After a Decades-Long Fight, Yale Graduate Student Workers Just Won Their Union
Graduate student workers at Yale University have been trying to unionize since the early 1990s; on Tuesday, they finally won a union election. Jacobin spoke with two Yale worker-organizers in the lead-up to the vote.
Undergraduate Workers at Grinnell College Are on Strike
Last week at Grinnell College in Iowa, undergraduate resident advisers with the Union of Grinnell Student Dining Workers, the first independent undergrad labor union in the country, went on strike. We spoke with two of the workers about why they walked out.
Minneapolis City Councilor Robin Wonsley on Fighting ICE
Democratic socialist and Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley was reelected and elevated to minority leader just days before ICE escalated its raids. We spoke to her about fighting immigration repression alongside city residents.
From Margins to Mainstream
The making of the modern Republican Party.
The Socialist Tradition Shaped Martin Luther King
Accounts of the life of Martin Luther King Jr often present him as a singularly great individual. Yet MLK was profoundly shaped by a vibrant ecosystem of socialists and labor radicals, from Myles Horton and Rosa Parks to Bayard Rustin and Stanley Levison.