Jacobin

I remember getting my first Android phone and feeling a sense of empowerment. This Google-branded rectangle put the world at my fingertips. It did what I wanted and then got out of my way. It...

On a hot Monday morning last June, standing in front of the Niagara hydroelectric station in Upstate New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul spoke of the future. Once the industrial home of titans like General Electric,...

Nearly every developed country has a birthrate below the 2.1 children per woman required to maintain a stable population. The world as a whole seems poised to follow suit: the Population Division at the Department...

The two best analyses of Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory are this one, by Michael Thomas Carter, and this conversation that Daniel Denvir, the Terry Gross of the Left, hosted with two organizers in New York City. Both...

Mouin Rabbani Well, let me give a little background on this. So, the Hamas attacks into southern Israel took place on October 7, 2023. Israel immediately commenced with its genocidal military campaign in the Gaza...

For leftists, there is no more heartening political development in the United States right now than Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s mayoral primary last month — a victory that offers hope for a...

June 17 The hours pass without me noticing. I’m glued to my phone. I look up and realize I’ve been scrolling the news since 5 a.m. and it’s already noon. Time moves on, unbothered by...

Saikat Chakrabarti Back in the 1970s, America felt unstoppable. We had just put a man on the moon, built the interstate highway system, had decades of rising living standards and wages, and were including more...

After the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, the British ambassador in Paris said it best: “The troops left the capital and the populace remained the unmolested masters of everything.” The uprising had...

In the early hours of Wednesday, over five hundred people were rescued off the tiny Greek island of Gavdos, having packed into a boat from Libya in the hope of reaching Europe. That same afternoon,...

This is the first article in a two-part series on the threat of AI-driven job loss and worker displacement. Creeping anxiety about AI-driven job loss has spilled into public consciousness. A decade ago, there were...

The Citizens United Supreme Court decision in 2010 is rightly remembered as a devastating blow to American democracy, spawning legions of super PACS and dark-money groups with unlimited funds to bring anyone who contravenes donor...