Jacobin

Despite being born more than two hundred years ago, Charles Baudelaire’s poetry retains the feeling of something contemporary. In Verso Books’ new dual-language edition of The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal), translated economically...

Behind a locked door, whimpers and moans can be heard over an ominous soundtrack. Dressed in a white lab coat and tan suit, Frantz Fanon is about to encounter, for the first time, the patients...

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. There now exists a small cottage industry designed to expose...

Yolanda Díaz There’s no more powerful force than the workers of the world. We have to speak to workers — and an increasingly complex world of work. A true oligarchy is developing: that of a...

Federal credit unions are often seen as the kinder, gentler version of big banks, since they are designed to serve members of modest means without a profit motive. But data from a new reporting rule...

So sayeth Andrew Cuomo: “It’s very simple: anti-Zionism is antisemitism.” On Tuesday, the former New York governor and current New York City mayoral candidate gave a speech at a Manhattan orthodox synagogue arguing that antisemitism...

In its statement responding to Donald Trump’s deunionization of most federal workers — voiding existing collective bargaining agreements, canceling their right to negotiate new ones, and eliminating automatic deduction of dues from workers’ paychecks —...

On the night of July 1, 2018, Mexico City’s main square, Zócalo, filled with people ready to celebrate the results of the presidential election. Among the ebullient throng — and despite the fact that AMLO’s...

Earlier this week, the Economist asked plaintively whether Elon Musk was fixing the federal government, as promised, or destroying it. “This newspaper looked forward to what Mr Musk might do with some hope,” it stated,...

With the third term of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva well beyond its midway point, South America’s largest nation is again suffering from a leadership crisis. The once widely beloved politician’s approval rating...

For the past three years, the US military has suffered through its worst recruiting crisis since the end of the draft in 1973. The Army Reserve has not met its annual quota of new recruits...

After more than a decade of liberal-driven censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump’s second election win was meant to have, in his own words, “saved free speech in America,” starting with an executive order on...