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The United States’ recent tariff offensive has left developing countries confronting a thorny dilemma. As Washington abandons the multilateral order in favor of unilateral economic measures, the Global South must grapple with the implications of...

A new podcast series from Jacobin Radio called Red Star Over Palestine tackles the histories of the Palestinian left and the influence of socialist ideas on Palestinian politics and culture. You can hear the first...

Amid ever-worsening climate disasters, Silicon Valley–backed Democrats are pushing a bill that could hand control of California’s energy markets to the fossil fuel–happy Trump administration. Tech companies supporting the legislation say it’s needed to meet...

Earlier this year, Ben Robinson was due to speak at a law school class at the University of Chicago about Indiana’s recently passed SEA 202, a law that critics like the Indiana Conference of the...

My generation made a naive error. We believed that social change was only a matter of challenging modes of production and distribution in society. We did not understand the immense role of culture. Capitalism is...

Interview by Chris Dite It is estimated that more than 220,000 people labor in online scam compounds in Southeast Asia’s notorious Golden Triangle region. Lured to border cities under false pretenses, they are forced to...

Republicans’ massive artificial intelligence giveaway in their must-pass budget reconciliation bill could kill crackdowns on real estate management company RealPage for raising rents and contributing to the country’s housing crisis. The move comes after RealPage drastically scaled up...

As part of House Republicans’ must-pass budget reconciliation bill, lawmakers just snuck in a ten-year federal preemption of state-level artificial intelligence laws — effectively nullifying all local efforts to regulate the explosive spread of AI technology....

House Republicans’ grand plan to slash their own taxes has hit a significant road bump: President Donald Trump has changed his tax-cutting tune. Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith met with the president late last week to salvage the...

At the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, I warned that the president’s mass deportation plan posed a serious threat to American citizens’ rights and safety. Long before Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had...

A fragile peace was reached on May 10 between India and Pakistan after four tense days of escalation following India’s Operation Sindoor missile strikes, officially aimed at “terrorist infrastructure.” This recent conflagration follows the killing...

Less than twenty-four hours after Liberal prime minister Mark Carney won Canada’s recent federal election, Danielle Smith, premier of the western province of Alberta, declared herself unhappy with the result. Less than a week after that,...