Jacobin

Precisely because Blow is not averse to context, his recent visceral reflections on President Trump’s reelection reminded me of his meditations, nearly a decade ago, on the context that gave us the 1994 Violent Crime...

Celine Song, writer-director of the thoughtful, poignant, highly praised, Best Picture–nominated drama Past Lives (2023), has come out with her second film, a romantic comedy called Materialists. Song’s trying to be thoughtful about that too...

Amid the mutual recriminations inside the Democratic Party about how Americans could have elected Donald Trump to a second term, one theory has risen to prominence: President Joe Biden’s industrial policy, codified in the Bipartisan...

Few would have predicted a year ago that a week out from New York City’s Democratic primary, a thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist state assemblymember named Zohran Mamdani would be in striking distance of the city’s mayoralty,...

Vivek Chibber There’s a certain amount of confusion, and that’s because neoliberalism has become this catchall that encompasses everything. So I think there is a scaling back of the American Empire, but it’s not because...

As Israel ramped up its attacks on Iran over the weekend, the Guardian carried an article with a headline that captured the stomach-turning essence of Western support for Israel’s genocidal project: “Strikes on Iran ease...

A private group chat of Democratic Party operatives and crypto industry advocates has been secretly coordinating to push Democratic senators to support major cryptocurrency-friendly legislation up for a vote on Tuesday. In the chat, they...

Andreas Krieg Partially, yes. Netanyahu has been using that narrative even in Gaza, where he was saying, “We want Palestinians to rise up against Hamas.” He used it in Lebanon, telling Lebanese citizens that they...

There are over three thousand New Yorkers here this evening — and thousands more watching from home. New Yorkers who believe that living here shouldn’t be a daily grind of anxiety. New Yorkers who are...

After years of wrangling, New York lawmakers have a chance to give indebted nations some breathing room — if a key bill can survive the state assembly and governor’s office. If it passes, the law...

Donald Trump’s 2024 victory didn’t just usher in political change, but a cultural one. The fact that Trump won both the popular vote and every battleground state meant, for many (Trump himself foremost among them),...

Unpredictability was the most predictable thing about the first few months of Trump 2.0. Having long understood the political utility of chaos, it’s no surprise that his most coherent strategy was to “flood the zone...