Don’t Believe the Hype: Paying for Medicare for All Is Simple
The critics have it wrong: by reducing health care spending through efficiency gains, Medicare for All would actually make it easier to fund other government programs.
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Documenting the Undocumented
A new book of photography captures the many faces of undocumented immigration.
The Free-Market Fantasy
Labeling the market natural and the state unnatural is a convenient fiction for those wedded to the status quo.
How to Beat Joe Biden
If Elizabeth Warren loses in Iowa, she should end her campaign — and even if she doesn’t, anyone who wants to stop Joe Biden should get behind Bernie Sanders.
Logged In
The new economy makes it harder than ever to untangle capitalism from our daily lives.
Superyachts and the Super Rich
Superyachts, like the billionaire class, shouldn’t exist. We need to institute a global wealth tax, shut down tax havens, and, yes, take their boats.
Park Menn
Only a political party as useless as the Democrats could take advice from a vacuous snake-oil salesman like Mark Penn.
“We’re All Working Here, and Bernie Supports All of Us”
The resounding victory for Bernie Sanders at both the caucuses on the Las Vegas strip and the entire state of Nevada should put the “Bernie Bro” myth to bed once and for all. At the Strip caucuses, the vast majority of voters were people of color, many of whom were immigrants — and they voted decisively for Sanders.
The Return of the Super-Elite
New research reveals inequality levels not seen in a century — and it shows where these new super-elites live, too.
Pulling the Plug on Working Families
The Left must develop fully independent organizations outside of establishment channels.
Trump the Sovereign
According to Donald Trump, the US should be able to do what it wants, when it wants, and the way it wants.
What Can We Expect From Boris Johnson?
Favors for wealthy donors, white-elephant vanity projects, and a carousel of controversies. Welcome to Boris Johnson, prime minister.
Stop Blaming Poor People for Their Poverty
The US political system is set up to limit the influence of the poor. Why should we blame them when it does exactly that?
Disposable Goods
On overcoming the exploitative temp industry.
The Left Can Win
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias on radical politics and what it takes to build mass movements.
Liberals and the Strike
The wave of teacher strikes is a challenge not just to GOP austerity, but to Democratic Party neoliberalism.
The Solution to the Coronavirus Recession Is a Global Green New Deal
The coronavirus is plunging the global economy into an unprecedented recession. We need to wipe away the debt bondage of Global South countries and launch a Global Green New Deal that will allow workers around the world to prosper.
Bracero Guestworkers, Unpaid
Congress is preparing to expand the guestworker program, but Mexican braceros remain unpaid after half a century.
People Who Kill Children
Palestinian children face violence at all turns, yet their hardship is not deemed worthy of attention.
“The Momentum Is With Us”
A Jacobin conversation with Bernie Sanders on the state of left politics today.