Jacobin

The first speech by NATO’s new secretary-general, Mark Rutte, on December 12 was ominous for more than one reason. The obvious one was what Rutte explicitly wanted to tell us.  He said we are “not...

As a flurry of questions continues to swirl in the wake of Trump’s second victory, one topic that has been the subject of much debate, once again, is populism. Google searches for the term roughly...

Amazon workers picketed their employer over the weekend through blisteringly frigid weather and, in New York, a flooded sidewalk as part of an escalating series of strikes by a minority of workers across the logistics...

Julio Antonio Mella was one of the most important pioneers of Marxism in Latin America. In the course of his brief life, Mella was a notable leader of the Cuban student movement, a founder of...

Nearly three-quarters of expected flood damage to American homes is currently uninsured, according to new data released by the Federal Reserve — and Republicans and those who don’t believe they’re personally threatened by climate change...

Tariq Ali There are several things to be said on this. First, it is not like the Vietnamese movement and the solidarity movement with Vietnam because that movement for most of us who participated in...

Carlos Fernández de Cossío When Trump came to power in 2017, there was pressure from the anti-Cuban sectors in the US for him to put Cuba on the State Department list of countries that allegedly...

Joe Biden’s Justice Department just handed a sweetheart deal to a global consulting firm with deep ties to the Biden administration, letting the firm off the hook for its role in helping “turbocharge” sales of the...

Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is one of the books about political philosophy most frequently assigned to college students. Fifty years after its publication, I’d be surprised if you could walk into a...

A month before Election Day, I posted this on Facebook: As the last week’s events around the failure of the Republicans and Donald Trump to shape Congress’s most recent spending bill reveal, I got this...

After seven years of driving for Uber, Phred Riggs had enough. Riggs said the company deactivated his account five times over the last five years for no reason. He also didn’t like how Uber would...

Finland has long been seen as a haven of progressive values — a perception earned through its strong welfare and education offers since the postwar decades. However, its right-wing coalition government, headed by Prime Minister...