Jacobin

This May Day, Jacobin invites you to a conversation about what socialism could look like in the twenty-first century — and how we can build it. A party will follow. Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara...

In 2018, Dr James Tabery watched a documentary about North Carolina’s eugenics program and the fraught effort to financially compensate survivors. The film changed his life. “Seeing The State of Eugenics . . . everything...

As the Trump administration attempts to eviscerate the federal agency tasked with overseeing consumer protection, Big Tech trade associations and data brokers peddling consumer data are trying to kill a rule that would limit how...

Bessner writes that: There is a fundamental truth at the heart of Trumpism that makes comparisons to European fascism difficult to sustain. Put simply, Trump and his hangers-on are building on long-standing American traditions and...

It’s a crowded morning at Damascus University’s cardiac hospital. Families from across Syria have gathered here with their children — many in urgent need of open-heart surgery. This hospital is the only functioning public facility...

Since Donald Trump’s administration took office in January, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has promoted its efforts to push migrants to “self-deport.” Assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin told...

Madison, a twelve-year-old from Illinois, visits a medical clinic every other week to get injections of Xolair, a powerful asthma and allergy medication. The drug helps protect her from severe asthma attacks as well as...

Donald Trump embarked on a trade war with China expecting it might cause a recession that would throw Americans out of work, warning that it would cause “some pain” — despite public surveys showing Americans...

The trade war escalated by President Donald Trump this April is set to cost the American economy dearly. The dollar has continued to weaken relative to most other major currencies, while bond yields, which usually...

Review of Theory and Practice by Michelle de Kretser (Catapult, 2025) From corporate hellscapes to doomed cross-class relationships and climate dystopias, there is no shortage of recent novels that draw attention to the miseries of...

Near the beginning of Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines, Stanley (Lewis J. Stadlen), the head of the advertising department, barges into an editorial meeting and delivers the bad news: “We’re going to have to...

Cultural politics aside, MAGA is a coherent conservative-nationalist project through and through. It aims primarily to restore some interconnected variables that were set up following the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971. MAGA...