At Long Last, a Day of Reckoning for Ticketmaster May Be Upon Us
Ticketmaster is facing a potential antitrust investigation after enraging Taylor Swift fans. Nobody can say Ticketmaster didn’t have it coming.
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America’s Working Class Is Struggling to Survive the Gauntlet of Middle Age
New research finds that Americans without college degrees live roughly eight and a half years fewer than their college-educated counterparts. Being working class in America means being ground down and left behind, explaining the rise of “deaths of despair.”
Hezbollah Is Increasingly Isolated in the Middle East
Many are worried the Israel-Hamas war could draw in Hezbollah. But the party lacks the widespread support it once enjoyed because of its collaboration with Assad in Syria and its close ties with business interests.
Big Tech’s Algorithms Are Built With Invisible Labor
Don’t let the shiny products and ping-pong tables at work fool you: tech platforms are just as reliant on a wretched, toiling workforce as any other company under capitalism.
Ask Labor Jane: How Can We Build Industrial Unionism in Education and Health Care?
Jane McAlevey argues that to build the power required to make huge gains for workers, we can't organize different kinds of workers separately from each other. We need wall-to-wall organization in workplaces to build an antiracist, antisexist trade union movement.
Antony Blinken, Notorious Boeing Lover, Stranded After Davos
A “critical” issue with a Boeing aircraft grounded Antony Blinken in Switzerland after his time at Davos. The irony: Blinken used to advise Boeing through his consulting firm, and his State Department has been very friendly to the company.
Adulting in Middle Age
Why millennials don’t grow up.
Arbitrating Against Corporate Power Just Got More Expensive
In contracts ranging from credit cards to employment terms, arbitration agreements force consumers and workers to pursue corporate accountability via private arbitration rather than the court system. That arbitration process just got way more expensive.
We Were Made for This Moment
Democratic socialism is on the rise — Jacobin is here to help it along.
Biden Has Fired the First Shot in a New Kind of Anti-China Cold War
The Biden administration just ratcheted up “strategic competition” with China with a round of export controls aimed at hobbling China’s semiconductor industry. But the move could end up blowing back on the US and its allies.
Reckoning With the Children Disappeared During El Salvador’s Civil War
The Salvadoran civil war didn’t just see US-trained-and-financed far-right forces commit endless war crimes — it also ripped children from families, an unknown number of whom never found their way back to their parents.
¿A dónde va México?
Puede que el gobierno de López Obrador no se proponga una ruptura con la burguesía. Pero de ninguna manera representa lo mismo que el PRI o el PAN, y sus políticas enfrentan a una buena parte de las clases dominantes.
The Anti-Palestinian Lobby Is Also a Corporate Lobby
A new PAC formed to unseat pro-Palestinian New York socialists is led by the same corporate interests opposed to progressive policies more generally. The battle over US policy toward Israel is also about economic policy at home.
The US War on Terror in West Africa Is a Continuing Disaster
Last month, Niger’s government kicked US troops out of the country, a new blow to Washington’s counterterrorism efforts in the increasingly conflict-ridden region. It’s just the latest failure in the US’s long and destructive “war on terror” in West Africa.
Bernie Sanders Is the Pro-Union Candidate
Many national unions still haven’t endorsed in the presidential race. But no other candidate has the same history of walking the picket lines, fighting for worker rights, and fostering union organizing that Bernie Sanders does.
Pete Buttigieg Took One for the Anti-Bernie Team
Pete Buttigieg has always been a calculating careerist. By ending his campaign yesterday, he may have sacrificed his short-term presidential ambitions — but he did so for the greater good of a Democratic Party establishment that is hell-bent on sabotaging Bernie Sanders.
Power Has Returned to Power
The defeats for Barcelona mayor Ada Colau and Manuela Carmena in Madrid compound recent woes for Podemos. As popular movements decline, the Spanish left’s onetime promise has given way to the stabilization of the center.
“Altruistic” Celebrity Chef José Andrés Is Fighting to Keep His Own Workers’ Wages Low
Celebrity chef José Andrés, owner of 31 restaurants, has made a name for himself as a philanthropic restaurateur. But while he generates headlines with displays of generosity, his company is quietly trying to block restaurant workers from receiving better pay.
Elizabeth Warren Should Have Gone on Fox News
Fox News’s politics won't be defeated by a few principled liberal politicians engaging in a media blackout.
Spain’s Vox Party Is the Center of the Global Far Right
Last Sunday, Spain’s Vox party hosted a rally featuring far-right leaders from around the world, including everyone from Marine Le Pen to Javier Milei. It shows how coordinated the movement is becoming — and how Vox is playing a central role.