Very little about the horrific war that Russia is waging against Ukraine seems based on solid calculations by Vladimir Putin. It’s hard to imagine the war benefiting Russia in the long run. Why, then, is Putin waging it?
How one author is bringing social justice to the romance genre.
We’re running short on funds. Jacobin troll Donald Hughes wants to help.
In New York City, working-class tenants are often victimized by predatory landlords. Their horror stories show the need for radical housing reform inside and outside the city.
A new book proves that the Indonesian army was responsible for the systematic slaughter of leftists in the 1965–66 genocide — and that orders came directly from the top.
Kamala Harris trumpets a criminal justice program she instituted as district attorney as proof she's a "progressive prosecutor." The only problem? The program utterly failed to reduce mass incarceration in California.
Socialists keep winning elections. The latest: Tiffany Cabán, who won the Queens, New York, district attorney race last night. She will soon have the opportunity to radically overhaul the criminal justice system by ending cash bail, halting prosecution of crimes of poverty, decriminalizing sex work, and more.
Jacobin’s Branko Marcetic reports from the RNC that, after claiming the high ground following Donald Trump’s near assassination, the GOP spent night two accusing Democrats of unleashing violent migrants to rape, murder, and sex-traffic their way across the US.
Jhumpa Lahiri’s failure in The Lowland is not one of style, but of sensibility. She has little investment in the spirit of the Naxalite movement she chooses to depict.
The labor movement should rally against police violence, whether police unions like it or not.
What's known as the "Mexican Drug War" was fueled by American free-market policies.
Hillary Clinton has been talking about economic inequality lately, but there’s a reason Wall Street isn’t worried.
Some thoughts on Bernie Sanders's resounding victory last night in the New Hampshire primary.
Protests in the UK are at a low by historical standards. Yet Labour and Conservatives insist that bans on civil liberties are needed to protect public order. In truth, the UK’s authoritarian turn is a response to its economic stagnation and decline.
How the execution of a mentally ill black man delivered Bill Clinton into the Oval Office.
The recent prison officers' strike in Britain is rooted in the repressive nature of incarceration.
Frederick Douglass, 1852: "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."
Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa’s unsuccessful run for mayor of New York was a stark reminder of how much has changed in NYC since the dark days of the fiscal crisis — and how much remains the same.
The evidence is overwhelming that Rodney Reed has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. The state of Texas must stop his November 20 execution.