Jacobin

Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions by aiding Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) mass deportations — and now that the Trump administration’s megabill has granted ICE a multibillion-dollar windfall, they...

Although it seems unthinkable for the modern Australian Labor Party (ALP), in the past, democratically mandated Labor governments have attempted to enact reforms that pushed, however moderately, in a socialist direction. But whenever they have,...

The six largest health insurers reported more than $1 trillion in revenue and more than $31 billion in net income last year — and are now pushing to raise Americans’ premiums by as much as...

This is an excerpt from Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left by Benjamin Balthaser, out this week with Verso Books. As historian Karen Brodkin tells it, socialism...

The Democrats’ working-class problem is not going away. In fact, it’s only getting worse — expanding beyond Donald Trump’s base of working-class whites to now include working-class Latinos and even a significant share of black...

For anyone hoping Kamala Harris’s disastrous 2024 loss would make the Democratic Party drastically change direction, the bad news can be summed up in two words: Project 2029. The New York Times reported earlier this...

Will François Bayrou’s government see out the year? The French prime minister seemed to doubt as much on July 15, when he used a fire-and-brimstone speech to set out his plans for a stringent austerity...

This is an excerpt from Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde — Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop by J. Hoberman, available now from Verso Books.  For fifteen years New York City —...

Since its inception in 2018, Jeune Garde (Young Guard) has been France’s most prominent anti-fascist youth organization. However, the group may not exist for much longer. In June 2025, the French government issued a decree dissolving...

In the heady neoliberal 1990s, techno-optimism touched its most cringe-worthy extremes. Infused with the fatuous imaginary of what Richard Barbrook has termed the “Californian ideology,” tech workers, entrepreneurs, and techno-visionary ideologues identified digital technology as...

When Zohran Mamdani declared on Meet the Press that “we shouldn’t have billionaires,” the backlash was swift. Wealthy elites and their defenders rushed to paint billionaires as indispensable benefactors. Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman insisted Mamdani...

In New York City, where democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won an electrifying victory in the Democratic mayoral primary on a platform of freezing rents, new research reveals just how critical such measures could be for...