Jacobin

The following is an excerpt from the Jacobin Series book Selling Social Justice: Why the Rich Love Antiracism by Jennifer C. Pan (Verso, 2025). For progressives, the crescendo of corporate interest in social justice, particularly...

“Katunayake FTZ workers skip travel home to vote due to high bus fares” reported a Sri Lankan news outlet on the morning of Monday, May 5, one day before local government elections. The headline captured...

We already knew Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against Yemen was unconstitutional. It turns out it was completely pointless too. Earlier this week, Trump and the Houthi leadership of Yemen announced a sudden cease-fire deal that...

The US government’s escalating trade war has forced Canadians to quickly rethink and prepare to reorient Canada’s economy. Discussions have thus far focused on developing new export markets and reducing barriers to interprovincial trade. These...

In his latest salvo against perceived media enemies, President Donald Trump has set his sights on dismantling America’s public broadcasting outlets. In April, his administration drafted a memo to halt federal funding for National Public...

Neal Meyer Of course — “if you give us money.” I am heartened by what we see with Bernie and AOC’s rallies. They’re very inspiring to a certain extent. But we have to figure out...

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump released his federal budget for 2026. The following figures give an overall sense of what the administration is proposing: Total discretionary funding requested: $1.69 trillion Military spending: $1.01 trillion...

Saudi Arabia has thrown vast amounts of money into professional sports since the start of this decade. The new TKO Group boxing promotion, spearheaded by Turki Al-Sheikh, an advisor at the Saudi Royal Court and...

It’s less than eight weeks until the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, and front-runner Andrew Cuomo is nowhere to be found. Only two months ago, the disgraced former governor of New York declared his...

Once confirmed as the secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr promised a new era of “radical transparency” — but instead, he’s made the agencies he oversees even more opaque. In February, the Food...

These are desperate times. As the rancorous Trump administration is turning away from Europe, accusing its “pathetic” nations of “free-loading,” and withdrawing support for thankless Ukraine, which Donald Trump blames for having “started the war”...

There is a telling rumor in Berlin political circles. Upon his appointment as leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) in 2022, Friedrich Merz was gifted a copy of Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by his conservative...