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What Is Trump Country?
Donald Trump's base has always been the upper class — not poor workers.
Pressuring Peace
Nathan Thrall, author of a new book on the Israel/Palestine conflict, on the logic behind recent developments in the region.
Bernie and the Movement
Bernie Sanders is a boon to progressive politics. But we need a movement that rebuilds the networks and organizations of the Left.
Democrat Blanche Lincoln Is Helping Big Business Avoid Paying Taxes
Blanche Lincoln, a former two-term “Blue Dog” conservative Democrat from Arkansas, is lobbying against increases in the corporate tax rate in Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan. It’s all about protecting the highly profitable business interests filling her wallet.
The US Is to Blame for the Destruction of Afghanistan
Despite its claims to be building democracy in Afghanistan, the US’s War on Terror pushed the country deeper into chaos. The United States should be held fully responsible for this failure by the rest of the world.
Refugees Detained in Melbourne’s Mantra Hotel Speak Out: “Our Lockdown Is Indefinite”
Under the short-lived Medevac Legislation, 192 refugees were transported from offshore detention to Australia for medical treatment. Today, most of them are still imprisoned in hotels around the country, where they have to endure a total, indefinite lockdown.
For Many Afghans, the US Occupation Was Just as Bad as the Taliban
Pointing to Taliban human rights violations, war hawks wish US troops were back in Afghanistan. Somehow they’ve already forgotten that the recklessness and sadism of those troops is why the Taliban came roaring back in the first place.
Putting in Time on the Line at Dodge Main
After the upsurges of the 1960s, a small but dedicated number of leftists decided to find jobs in industries like auto manufacturing with the intention of stoking radicalism on the job. Mark Levitan was one of them.
The Chicago Teachers Union Has Defeated a Key Anti-Union State Law
A 1995 Illinois state law massively restricted the Chicago Teachers Union’s ability to bargain over anything but pay and benefits. The union has finally succeeded in rolling the law back — opening the door to bargaining over key issues like reversing privatization and the outsourcing of school services, capping class sizes, and more.
Empire’s Workshop Under a Flailing Empire
Latin America is not the United States’ “backyard.” It’s the training ground, historian Greg Grandin argues, for periods of imperial retrenchment and regroupment. But it’s also a region where radical movements have consistently refused to be crushed by US imperial power.
Yuppie Misandry
At the turn of the last century, Alexandra Kollontai identified the problem with elite feminism.
Joe Biden Is Delivering Big for the Border-Industrial Complex
Joe Biden may have dropped Trump’s racist justifications for a border wall, but the “border-industrial complex” is still alive and well — and still monstrously profitable.
To Save America, Help West Virginia
Wielding a pivotal Senate seat at a moment when the Biden administration is prepared to spend trillions on fixing the climate, West Virginia is now in a position to make huge demands of the Democratic Party. We can’t let a blend of woke neoliberalism and elite condescension get in the way.
There’s Never Been a Better Time to Abolish the Monarchy
Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic love Britain’s monarchy because “royals” are emotionally potent mascots of extreme inequality and deference. There’s no reason this heinously undemocratic institution should exist.
The US Blockade of Cuba Must End
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the US blockade of Cuba, a collective punishment of the Cuban people for their independence from US control. The blockade needs to end.
Trump Should Be Prosecuted. So Should Other Elites Who Have Flagrantly Broken the Law.
The raid and possible prosecution of Donald Trump is a welcome break from decades of elite impunity. But to mean something, it must be a turning point in holding those elites accountable, not an exception.
Ken Burns Talks to Jacobin About the Radical Ernest Hemingway
From fighting alongside communists in the Spanish Civil War to backing revolutionaries in Cuba, documentarian Ken Burns shows us the radical side of writer Ernest Hemingway in the new PBS docuseries Hemingway. Burns talks to Jacobin about Hemingway’s forgotten left-wing politics and why the writer still matters.
In Australia, the Far Right Is Pushing COVID-19 Conspiracies
Last weekend, thousands of anti-vaxxers and COVID denialists marched across Australia to protest pandemic restrictions. A core of far-right activists were at the center of the action.