Jacobin

Whenever we imagine that Israel’s genocide has reached its nadir, the country plumbs new depths of evil. Israel’s genocidal energy in Gaza seems bottomless. On Thursday, nearly two years into the genocide, Israeli prime minister...

For years, Democrats framed gerrymandering as a fundamental threat to democracy. Former president Barack Obama once called it “a sneaky way for politicians to consolidate as much power as they can.” Obama’s former attorney general,...

Texas Democrats have left the Capitol in an attempt to block a mid-cycle redistricting scheme. For a party that’s been frustratingly content to roll over for MAGA opposition, it’s a welcome and surprisingly spirited act...

News broadcast giants that have curried favor with President Donald Trump and disseminated right-wing talking points are now urging the administration to eliminate rules holding back their monopolization of local and national TV stations, under...

Since New York City’s June 24 Democratic primary, it has become clear that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the only anti-Trump candidate for mayor. Even before the election, it was obvious that the incumbent mayor,...

Palestinian statehood is a big deal. You can’t have the much-vaunted “two-state solution” without it, and Israel and its US lobby have fought hard against it ever happening, maybe most famously pressuring Barack Obama into...

More than ten thousand Air Canada flight attendants could soon be on strike if a deal isn’t reached by August 16. In one of the strongest strike mandate votes in recent Canadian history, 99.7 percent...

Western media outlets such as the New York Times framed the summit as China’s attempt to “woo” Latin America away from the United States, helped along by Donald Trump’s tariffs war. One report in the...

On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights activists departed from Selma headed toward Montgomery, Alabama, along US Route 80. The march, part of a larger voting rights movement taking place across the South, was...

Eighty years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, leveling it and killing an estimated 140,000 people. Three days later, the United States hit Nagasaki with a...

Vivek Chibber The second one is important because it’s being brought up again and it will make the rounds if the United States starts saber rattling again. This is the view that Bush’s mistake was...

In early January 2025, at the American Historical Association (AHA) conference in New York City, over five hundred members of the organization filed into a hotel ballroom to attend the annual business meeting. It was...