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Sandeep Vaheesan This conflict has been present since the very inception of the electric grid. Starting on Pearl Street in New York City 1882, Thomas Edison built the first power station to cater to the...

Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least endowed...

This week, as Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” was attempting to further gut the US government, his rocket company SpaceX was cementing a NASA contract adding millions of dollars to its already massive deal...

Wolfgang Streeck’s new book Taking Back Control? argues that the neoliberal era of free trade and trickle-down rhetoric lies in the past. He spoke to Jacobin about the political shocks this might bring. Wolfgang Streeck...

A coastline is the interface between the land and the sea, and there the land is always in flux, subject to oceans’ and rivers’ constant ebb and flow. In the near future, due to global...

Last week, a federal judge in Washington, DC, issued a temporary restraining order to stop Donald Trump’s firing of thousands of employees at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The judge was appointed...

Gregory P. Williams Yes, the all-important hyphen! The notion of the world-system was Wallerstein’s way of rethinking world politics beyond the perspectives of modernization theory. He had already rejected the assumption of European superiority. He...

Review of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning by Peter Beinart (Penguin, 2025) The New Yorker once described American political commentator Peter Beinart as the most influential liberal Zionist of his generation....

From the smokestacks of the Industrial Revolution to today’s neural nets, technology has always been a double-edged sword that carries the promise of liberation for workers. But cashing in on that promise requires control over...

When former Die Linke leader Sahra Wagenknecht and her supporters quit to form their own party in October 2023, both sides of the split seemed confident that they would be the main beneficiaries. Her Sahra...

Who can stop Elon Musk? Even though it’s illegal for him to seize control of federal agency finances to slash the workforce, a Republican Congress is unlikely to assert its legally mandated prerogatives. Nor has...

At this early moment in Donald Trump’s second administration, all of the action has been in the executive branch. The various executive orders he has issued (generally sadistic, unconstitutional, or both) have drawn great scrutiny....