Neoliberalism was never about shrinking the state to unfetter markets and enhance human freedom. In her new book, Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley argues that neoliberalism has always sought to wield state power to maximize profits for the rich.
Facing the prospect of paying a bit more in taxes, billionaires are responding calmly and rationally: by calling themselves a marginalized, oppressed minority group being traumatized.
For three whole hours, Avatar: The Way of Water evokes Important Issues — imperialism, colonialism, racism, sexism, ransacking the environment for commodifiable resources — in the silliest, shallowest way possible.
New South Wales is allowing stadiums to seat up to 10,000 fans right now, but the Liberal state government has used COVID-19 as a pretext to ban all public protests. Vinil Kumar, who faced the NSW Supreme Court on this issue, spoke with Jacobin about the battle to protect our democratic rights amid lockdown.
Though often condemned to the fringes of American political life, the radical left has changed the course of US history.
The Amazon rainforest is close to an irreversible tipping point. By centering it in his foreign policy, Bernie Sanders can further distinguish himself while pushing his rivals.
Neil Gorsuch isn’t the real danger. The Supreme Court is.
Fred Rogers was a wonderful human being who tried to use his influence for good. I just couldn't stand his show.
US refugee policy holds that only victims of political violence, not "private" acts like domestic abuse or gang violence, deserve refugee status. But we can't talk about such violence in Central America without talking about mass incarceration and US policy in the region.
Elite arguments against tower blocks aren't about safety — they're about contempt for public housing.
Like his narrator in The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura has been made to matter less than he should.
It is not enough to question the decisions, the justices, or even the structure of the current court — we need to challenge, as Abraham Lincoln did, the foundation of its power to determine the law.
Both capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance look fundamentally similar all over the world. Within the West and outside of it, socialism speaks to those experiences.
If Pokémon Go could resemble the best of childhood, it might have some value. What it actually does is very different.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, blaming black culture for racial inequality remains politically dominant. And not only on the Right.
US warmongering left North Korea with a simple lesson: it might be worth hanging on to its nuclear weapons.
For union officials, too often “saving the union” means maintaining union dues from a workforce suffering under bad contracts.
Robert Caro has penned more magisterial works of history than nearly anyone else. But without accounting for the often-invisible work of others in his research, his new memoir Working is not so much inspiration as an exercise in self-celebration.
Pregnancy discrimination is rampant and devastating for its victims. But in a tight labor market, it may be a problem for capital, too.