Jacobin

Marc Andreessen has found a clever justification for dismissing democratic oversight of technology. Over the past year, the billionaire venture capitalist has repeatedly invoked a century-old idea from the German sociologist Robert Michels: the “Iron...

In recent years, there’s been growing interest on the Left in analyzing the role of the family and reproductive labor under capitalism. Much of this work has been carried out under the banner of social...

Review of Delicious Hunger by Hai Fan, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Tilted Axis Press, 2025) In the author’s own words, the main aim of Hai Fan’s first collection of writing, What the Rainforest Told You,...

Twenty months into Israel’s daily devastation of Gaza, its US-backed “aid relief” scheme has left 230 people dead or injured in a single day. This single incident is just the latest in the truly apocalyptic...

A little over a year ago, I organized a meeting in New York City between a visiting member of Congress and a handful of local activists from across the Left. Among those present was New...

There are moments in a presidency of no turning back, decisions made and actions taken that are so consequential and far-reaching, they mark a fundamental turning point. George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, for example,...

Pity the observer of contemporary conservative politics. Once it seemed easy to identify a conservative: an upholder of inherited tradition, of tried-and-true practices and institutions, of family values and conventional morals. These stances were often...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has been conducting shocking raids around Los Angeles. Migrant workers have been dragged out of construction sites and kitchens and Home Depot parking lots. This extreme escalation of...

Forgive the personal aside at the outset, but it’s relevant to the point at hand. I remember buying my first smartphone. It was 2010 and I’d just moved back to Canada from South Korea, where...

The D-Day anniversary on June 6 is a pretty irresistible date for scheduling a protest related to veterans’ benefits. Eighty-one years ago, American soldiers and their allies stormed ashore in Normandy, establishing a critical beachhead...

“When people say buses can never be free,” says socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, smiling, “don’t ask them to take a hike. Ask them to take the ferry.” The video, with beautiful...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is set to quietly ban any financial-risk standards when local governments use public money to invest in bonds funding Israel’s government — just months after a major credit rating agency...