Only Love Can Set the Looksmaxxer Free
For the looksmaxxer, women are irrelevant except as currency to buy rank over other men. Undoing these market logics with real love is the only way to liberate the looksmaxxer from lonely self-optimization.
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Rejecting the Health Care Trap of the Democrats’ Donor Class
An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to undermine Medicare for All even before Democrats regain power. Candidates like Graham Platner and Abdul El-Sayed are rejecting the ploy.
When the Rich Say “We’re Leaving”
Every time we want to change society to benefit average people, we have to deal with ultrawealthy crybabies.
The Fake Antiwar Right Goes to War
Venezuela is only the opening salvo in a blatantly imperial project aimed at crushing the Latin American left.
When St Louis Workers Seized Their City
At the collapse of Reconstruction, black Americans and workers of all races found themselves facing an increasingly authoritarian capitalist political order. In response, they took over St Louis.
The Clash of Civilizations, 30 Years Later
At a time of neoliberal triumphalism and the so-called end of history, Samuel Huntington predicted ongoing conflict.
The Long Struggle Against Dependency
The Pink Tide governments’ efforts to break from the tyrannies of world market dependence are not new. Neither are their failures to do so.
Spaghetti Junctions
How did New York become the only metropolis in the world to insist that its transit map reflect the layout of the city above?
The African Infrastructure Scam
How Western finance uses the promise of critical infrastructure to loot Africa.
Debt: An American Tragedy
After learning her mother took out $200,000 of debt in her name, Kristen Collier felt betrayed. Her new book traces how it pushed her to expose unscrupulous lenders who upend the lives of millions across the US.
Country Music Doesn’t Deserve Its Conservative Reputation
Musician Nick Shoulders talks to Jacobin about a genre that has long broadcast the struggles and aspirations of working people.
Movements Need the Critical Thinking That AI Destroys
Struggles against oppression start with people critically reflecting on their experiences. What happens to such struggles when we outsource our thinking to AI and replace human interlocutors with sycophantic chatbots?
Bail Bond Insurers Are Lobbying to Keep People in Jail
The for-profit bail industry is behind a new federal effort to criminalize charitable efforts designed to help people who can’t afford to post bail. The legislation is part of a national wave of attacks on bail reforms.
Occupy Economics
Occupy Wall Street has thrown off many sparks. A little one landed in academic economics.
Major Carbon Emitters Are Fighting Accountability in California
As California strains under severe weather, oil companies and industry reps are fighting against legislation that would require large companies to fully disclose carbon emissions across their value chain.
Health Insurers Are Boosting CEO Pay to Astronomical Heights While Their Customers Suffer
Health insurance companies are spending more and more money on stock buybacks — boosting their CEOs’ pay to obscene levels even while insurers’ out-of-pocket requirements are burying 100 million Americans under a mountain of medical debt.
Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson Are Elites in Populist Clothing
Donald Trump skipped the first GOP debate to chat with his courtier Tucker Carlson. Their conversation revealed the utter insincerity of their branding as opponents of the elite and the military-industrial complex.
Even Credit Unions Are in on Banks’ Junk Fee Racket
The credit union motto is “people helping people.” Yet credit unions, like big banks, collect billions of dollars through excessive overdraft fees — and the Trump administration just made it easier for them to do so.
No Babies? Blame Capitalism.
Commentators are pinning low fertility rates on everything from feminism to smartphones. But they miss one glaring factor: capitalism, an economic system predicated on individual autonomy and naked self-interest whose incentives run counter to child-rearing.