Despite the organizing of thousands of federal workers and a growing grassroots opposition to Donald Trump, the Democratic Party leadership refuses to offer any serious opposition to a billionaire coup.
Socialist politics is a class politics. A clear conception of class is essential for our political strategy.
Why environmentalists’ fear of bigness dooms the developing world.
Dispatches from the Jacobin diaspora.
Whether the target was communists in the 1950s or pro-Palestine activists today, university administrators have always worked to keep academia in line.
Briana Boston, a working-class woman fighting a health insurance claims denial, has been arrested for saying “delay, deny, depose” on a phone call to her insurer. The judge has set her bail at $100,000, “considering the status of our country.”
Hulk Hogan, who died this week at age 71, was the most important professional wrestler who ever lived. He was also a terrible human being.
Fully funding Social Security isn’t hard. We should do it.
We’re held hostage by a political and military elite that exploits us to fuel its endless wars.
There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
The borders of Ukraine are no more arbitrary than those of Poland, Greece, Italy, or Germany.
Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.
Since the 1800s, from Eugene Debs to the Milwaukee “sewer socialists,” the US socialist movement has been especially vibrant in the Midwest — and continues to shape American heartland politics today.
Some of the most over-the-top apartments in New York City are owned — and left empty — by überwealthy foreign nationals.
We talk to comedian and activist Rob Delaney.
Chávez performed best in poor districts, worse in rich ones.
Elon Musk isn’t the only Silicon Valley somebody to leave the Dems in the dust.
The outcomes of class conflicts throughout history have been influenced by how workers and rulers respond to pandemics. As we emerge from this pandemic, the fight for fairer work regimes is our urgent task.
In the neoliberal era, Democrats adopted an elitist approach that emphasized education as the key to individual success. Only the revival of an inclusive social democratic politics can reverse economic inequality and defeat reactionary populism.
In their early-twentieth-century heyday, American socialists advanced a distinctive vision of constitutional interpretation that centered popular mass politics — not judges and lawyers. As we face our own crisis of constitutionalism today, we should look back to that vision.