Jacobin

Fueled by Donald Trump’s billionaire cabinet and the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) anti-government crusade, privatizers are on the prowl. The first month of Trump 2.0 has been a bonanza of unabashed scamming and self-dealing...

“The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it.” That was historian Ellen Schrecker’s devastating conclusion in her classic study No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, which came out in 1986. Columbia University, while...

Liberal America was belatedly shocked by Donald Trump’s order to arrest and deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card–holding US resident who has been one of the chief leaders of the Palestine solidarity movement at Columbia...

David Guiraud In Roubaix, the situation’s a little unique. Even though it’s lost local tax revenue, it still receives financing from VAT revenue. Unlike other cities, under the latest budget Roubaix doesn’t lose the credits...

For most people, Frank Bisignano is known for two things: being the president and CEO of Fiserv, and now President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Social Security Administration (SSA). Within Fiserv he’s known for...

In Tuesday’s early morning hours, as Palestinians in Gaza were preparing for another day of fasting for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, Israeli forces pounded the besieged Strip with a massive surprise-attack barrage of air...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are attempting to transform the architecture of the federal government. The American state under their influence is not merely a vehicle for broad capitalist governance but a tool for the...

Review We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big by Eric Blanc (University of California Press, 2025). In We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning...

The recent detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, is troubling for many reasons. Khalil, a green card holder, has not been charged with...

In the week leading up to a major protest in Belgrade this past Saturday, Donald Trump Jr made his appearance in the Serbian capital. President Aleksandar Vučić hosted him at his residence on Andrićev Venac,...

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to...

Since the early 1980s, Canada’s economy has expanded significantly, with GDP per capita rising by 70% in real terms. But while the wealthiest Canadians’ incomes have increased fivefold, those of the bottom half have risen...