The last of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries, workhouses for “morally wayward” women, closed in 1996. Since then, the institutions’ many horrors have come to light, but misinformation has also been endemic. A new book provides a granular, factual account.
Americans used to fight for constitutional change — and not just in the Supreme Court chamber. Jill Lepore talked to Jacobin about the decline of the amendment process and the rise of judicial power.
Could democratic socialism become the brand of a new generation of political actors — not just on the fringe, not just in New York City, but across the country?
Nursing in the US is highly unionized, well-paid, and increasingly central to the economy. Rank-and-file nurses are well-positioned to fight for common good demands and for a broader revival of the labor movement.
The Rural Urban Bridge Initiative’s flagship program shows how local organizing can reduce partisan polarization and slow the GOP’s inroads among rural voters — a clue for what it might take for the Left to win in red areas of the country.
The US incarcerates more people than almost any country on Earth. Meanwhile, pharma executives, Wall Street bankers, and fossil fuel companies escape meaningful accountability for harms that have killed far more Americans than street crime ever has.
Brutish and bigoted, grubbing and petulant, Donald Trump is an uncannily apt embodiment of the full sweep of US imperial arrogance and decadence in Latin America.
For Madison and the other Framers, the danger wasn’t the power of elites but that of the mob.
A luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner has prompted massive protests in Albania, now ongoing for over a month. The project has become a lightning rod for opposition to Prime Minister Edi Rama’s cronyish development model.
Big Tech has grown enormously due to tactics such as price gouging and anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions. New legislation to address these in California faces a stiff and very well-funded resistance.
The surge at the border under Joe Biden was a political failure, and one that MAGA weaponized with brutal efficiency. The Left has to offer its own solutions.
For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to Bari Weiss’s Free Press, defending Israel seems to be a far greater priority than the facts.
Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.
The late Carlo Ginzburg is the best-known pioneer of microhistory, looking at social change from below. His approach was deeply affected by his family’s experience of fascism and the rival antifascist traditions shaping postwar Italian society.
Two of Britain’s most powerful unions oppose soft-left MP Ed Miliband’s bid to become chancellor. They fear the green transition could cost jobs in the oil industry, one of the few sectors where workers have consistently secured above-inflation pay raises.
Hundreds of workers across Mexico who provide rides and deliveries through apps held a two-hour work stoppage last month demanding fair rates, an end to unjustified deactivations, and ultimately a collective labor agreement with app giants like Uber.
Democratic Socialists of America–backed challengers for Congress have already notched three wins in primary elections this year. In Colorado’s elections tomorrow, Melat Kiros is hoping to join the growing bloc of socialists on Capitol Hill.
Pharmacy benefit managers sit at the center of a four-way transaction between patients, insurers, drug manufacturers, and pharmacies. They’ve figured out how to skim profit from every single one of those relationships, explains Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
Billionaire wealth has doubled in five years, and there’s a growing movement to tax it. But there’s a problem: the fate of a national wealth tax may ultimately hinge on a few words buried in an arcane passage in the Constitution.
Leading historian Omer Bartov has called Israel’s crimes in Gaza a genocide. In an interview, he explains that Zionist radicalization is rooted not just in recent events but also in fundamental choices made when Israel was created.