“There were many things that we knew would happen,” said Kamala Harris as the stock market plunged last week in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs. A smile crept across her face as she spontaneously added,...
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Review of Karl Marx in America by Andrew Hartman (University of Chicago Press, 2025) The first American book with the word “Sociology” in its title was Sociology for the South (1854) by the Virginian anti-abolitionist...
The following article is from the Spring 2025 issue of Jacobin, “Progress.” Click here to subscribe to receive the entire issue in print and online. Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba, in the...
Today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ. Historian Quinn Slobodian explains how these ideas can be fitted together. Elon Musk holds a...
“Football without fans is nothing.” It has become an often repeated truism in soccer’s age of hypercapitalist excess. Originating with Celtic’s Jock Stein decades ago, the slogan was recently misattributed to Manchester United’s 1960s manager...
In November 1980, Ken Freedman blasted Lesley Gore’s 1963 pop hit “It’s My Party (And I’ll Cry If I Want To)” on repeat for nineteen continuous hours over the airwaves of WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor’s college...
Spain’s left-wing Sumar held its second national conference on March 29–30, with its future already in doubt. In two recent polls, the junior partner in the country’s coalition government had lost over half its support...
By the time that an Israeli rocket killed brothers Haytham, aged twenty-nine, and Bashar, twenty-one, in a tent outside their home in Al-Mawasi, southern Gaza — a designated “safe zone” at the time — last...
As markets panic and the public braces for economic apocalypse in the face of the new US tariff regime, both Donald Trump’s allies and detractors have the same message: there is a grand plan here....
When Mahmoud Khalil appeared before an immigration judge at the LaSalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana, for the second time yesterday, he quoted back to the judge something she had said at his hearing three...
It has been a tumultuous week for the stock market, as Donald Trump’s quest to reshape the global capitalist order has sent investors into a frenzy. Where is all of this headed? Who knows. But...
Donald Trump’s tariffs demand a response. Around the world, that response has defaulted to retaliatory tariffs — a strategy with severe and obvious drawbacks. After years of pandemic shocks and greedflation, people around the globe...
