Jacobin

On January 15, law enforcement officials finally arrested Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea’s impeached far-right president, for plotting an insurrection in the form of an attempt to impose martial law late last year. This came twelve...

Democracy in America is not well, but what ails it? According to one diagnosis, the country is suffering from multiple strains of one-man rule — tyranny, fascism, authoritarianism. Variants of the virus originate in the...

The politics around immigration makes for strange bedfellows. This is a truth we nearly forgot during the first Trump administration, when opposition to Donald Trump’s almost cartoonishly vicious attacks on immigrants became a signature element...

Just before President Joe Biden this week issued a last-minute order designed to boost tech companies’ artificial intelligence build-out, his own Energy Department issued a report warning that data centers’ energy consumption, water use, and...

It was 1973, year of the energy crisis and the beginning of the rollback of postwar social democracy. In Mexico, student attempts to crack open the nation’s one-party state had been recently met by the...

Officials don’t yet know the initial cause of the fires that began ripping through Los Angeles on January 7 — but we do know that a hotter and drier climate created the perfect conditions for...

The biopic of British singer-songwriter Robbie Williams, Better Man, is tanking badly in US theaters. Which figures — most Americans have no idea who Robbie Williams is. His big hits in the UK and many...

On Wednesday morning, educators, staff, and students at Burbank Middle School in Highland Park arrived to find their school blanketed in ash. It was immediately clear this would not be a normal day. By 9:40...

Vitor Alves stops his four-wheeler along the road that leads to Cuito Cuanavale. The town in Angola’s southeastern corner has often been dubbed “Africa’s Stalingrad” due to its longtime besiegement (October 1987–June 1988) during the...

Over a year before Los Angeles’s uncontrollable wildfires burned through neighborhoods once considered safe, the office of California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara quietly shared a potential regulatory plan with insurance company lobbyists. It was a...

With a cease-fire deal in Gaza now formally approved by both sides, it’s tempting to give in to a sense of euphoria after so much heartless brutality since October 7, 2023. But we should maintain...

Daniel Bessner It’s a very old position, at least going back to the middle of the twentieth century, when the United States decided to become more involved in global affairs, particularly European affairs. It had...