The Inexorable Rise of Funny Money
Last year, almost half of all “buy now, pay later” customers missed a payment. But a growing share of Americans are relying on such credit as a routine way to fund even basics like groceries.
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Respiratory Therapists Are Some of the Unsung Heroes of the Pandemic
Respiratory therapists operate ventilators and perform crucial services in treating the coronavirus. They say they still don’t have the protective equipment they need.
Nonviolence and Social Change
In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr delivered a lecture calling on the “dispossessed of this nation” to revolt in nonviolent struggle. We reprint it here in full.
Gravediggers of the Gulf
The Gulf State monarchies have profited from the exploitation of migrant workers. But can they contain a challenge from below?
Building Radical America
The 1960s magazine that kept alive the history of the US left and provided the intellectual material for its future.
Stop Polluting Our Green New Deal
As climate protests sweep across Europe, neoliberals are misusing the name “Green New Deal” to push new kinds of market incentives.
Welfare for All
Want to improve animal welfare? Focus on bettering the conditions of the people who work with them.
Celebrating Ten Years of Jacobin
And our decades to come.
The Lies We Tell About Lenin
Lenin and the debates that shaped the Russian Revolution have been misunderstood by friends and foes alike.
How the Green New Deal Can Deliver Land Justice
Land is a source of both enormous wealth and horrendous inequality. The Green New Deal can reverse historic injustices while pushing agriculture into the sustainable, low-carbon future.
The Student Worker Movement Is Growing
Faced with a hostile NLRB, repressive university policies and a lack of institutional support, student workers across the country are pushing ahead in their campaign to unionize.
The Left and Free Speech
Is the Left more opposed to free speech today than it used to be?
Delete Your App
Uber and Lyft drivers are on strike today. They’re challenging companies that refuse to even recognize them as workers.
Why I’m Not a Liberal
To many liberals, injustice is a product of misunderstanding, the result of faceless processes that no one really benefits from.
Beyond the “Madman”
A Marxist pilot on the Germanwings plane crash.
Euro-Washing the Nakba
Today, Palestinians are observing Nakba Day, which mourns their mass expulsion in 1948. Israel is celebrating with a music festival.
The Greek Right
With New Democracy just behind Syriza in the polls and an array of even more radical groups mobilized, the Greek right cannot be ignored.
The Permanent Crisis of Housing
Under capitalism, housing is never secure for the working class.
When Jail Becomes a Death Sentence
Incarceration is on the rise in small, poor towns across the country — often with deadly consequences.