Interview by Stephen Maher Last November, the Democrats suffered an embarrassing defeat to Donald Trump, giving the GOP control of the White House and both houses of Congress. The loss was in part the fruit...
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Many conservatives argue that the order in which a person achieves certain life milestones is key to their financial security. The point of the argument is to blame individuals for their poverty. Proponents of the...
With our comrades we remember recent victories, and we mutter against, and curse, our rulers. We take a few minutes to freshen up our knowledge of what happened there in Chicago in 1886 and 1887...
The first hundred days of a presidency have historically marked the point at which it is reasonable to assess a new administration. But over this brief period, Donald Trump has signed 139 executive orders, just...
Get a digital subscription to Jacobin today for just $1. Print subscriptions are only $10 today, too. Just follow this link. The people who run the planet have 364 days in their honor (more on leap...
Just 100 days into Donald Trump’s second term, some wonder if the US faces a constitutional crisis. Yale law professor Samuel Moyn tells Jacobin that, rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise....
Fifty years since the triumph of national liberation forces, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber explores the true story of the Vietnam War — not as a tragedy of American overreach but as a triumph of Vietnamese...
On December 2, 1823, US president James Monroe declared that the American continent “was no longer to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” With these apparently well-intended words, the “Monroe...
While Vladimir Lenin never actually wrote that “there are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen,” it would make for an excellent description of April 1975. Just two weeks after the...
As with many presidents, how you evaluate Donald Trump’s first hundred days in his second term all depends on how seriously you take his rhetoric. With Trump, there are the ostensible goals that you would...
When Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a socialist state assemblyman from Queens, launched his campaign for New York City mayor, most political observers were skeptical that he’d get very far. City politics is typically dominated by real...
Review of The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life by Sophia Rosenfeld (Princeton University Press, 2025) Humans, it is sometimes said, are defined by our capacity for choice. We are not...
