An Equal Opportunity Racket
Hillary Clinton is right that cashing in on speaking fees is nothing new. But neither is public criticism of it.
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The Long Road to Crisis
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.
Not a Bad Night
From left-wing ballot measures to socialists in the House, things are slowly — but surely — moving our way.
“People Are Starting to Realize the Kind of City We Can Have If We Fight for It”
Robert LeVertis Bell is a public school teacher and socialist in Louisville, Kentucky running for city council. In an interview with Jacobin, he talks about his experience participating in the recent red-state teachers’ upsurge, fighting gentrification, and how campaigns like his can be used to build a broader movement that is bigger than any one candidate.
Deeper Into the Dark
On Sunday, the far right had its best ever result in Sweden. And they're pushing the rest of the political spectrum to capitulate to their agenda.
Against Bluexit
Liberals want to write off huge swathes of the United States. We shouldn't follow suit.
Why They Hated Rosa Luxemburg
Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored.
Trump Is Plunging Cuba Into a Humanitarian Crisis
From 30-hour blackouts to extreme fuel shortages, the situation in Cuba under the second Trump administration is a catastrophe. Still, Cubans are showing extraordinary creativity and resilience in the face of the suffocating blockade.
Crypto Can’t Build a Better Internet
For all its utopian trappings, web3 tech like cryptocurrency only deepens the problem of elite control over the internet. We have an alternative.
The Value of Workers’ Contributions Is Inherently Collective
The Left argues that workers deserve the fruits of their own labor, while the Right says that some workers contribute much more than others and so deserve higher pay. But that claim overlooks the dependence of individual contributions on collective labor.
Between the Donroe and Carney Doctrines
At Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney set fire to liberal platitudes. His actual politics, however, do quite the opposite.
The GOP Is at War — Without the Foreign Policy Establishment
For a century, American wars were planned by think tankers drawn from the boards of Goldman Sachs and Chevron. It gave rise to horrors like Vietnam and Iraq. That era is over. What comes next is very likely worse.
The Epstein Whistleblower Who Was Silenced
A former Deutsche Bank compliance officer told the FBI she was fired in 2018 after flagging suspicious activity in accounts linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner, offering yet another example of how they operated above the law.
Japan Is Rearming and Embracing Nationalism
Amid rising nationalism, Japan is accelerating its military buildup. Troublingly, as Japan abandons its postwar pacifism, its leadership is also pushing revisionist ideas about the atrocities that made the stance necessary to begin with.
US Military Aid to Israel Is a National Security Risk
We have another report that Israel used the military power the US underwrites to pressure Donald Trump into a disastrous war in Iran. US military aid to Israel makes Americans — to say nothing of the rest of the world — less safe.
Far-Right Billionaire Vincent Bolloré Returns to Africa
Billionaire Vincent Bolloré is known for his use of his media empire to promote Islamophobic pundits in France. Now the corporation he controls is buying up TV broadcasting and film across Africa.
Francesca Albanese: This Is Genocide
In an interview, UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese explains how Israel is systematically erasing Palestinian life from Gaza.
Big Three Autoworkers Are Getting Ready to Strike As Negotiations Come Down to the Wire
The United Auto Workers’ contract with the Big Three automakers expires tomorrow at midnight. If no agreement is reached, the UAW is ready to strike to recoup concessions made over the past two decades, end tiers, and boost wages.
A New Supreme Court Case Could Make It Even Harder to Tax the Superrich
The Supreme Court has just agreed to hear a case designed to preemptively block a wealth tax — another potentially lucrative gift for the conservative justices’ billionaire benefactors.
The First East Coast Longshore Strike in Half a Century Is On
After a monthslong impasse between the longshore workers’ union and its employers, 47,000 ILA workers from docks along the East and Gulf coasts have struck. Billions of dollars’ worth of goods won’t move until they return to work.