Jacobin

This is the second article in a series describing the first six years, from 2014 to 2020, in the transformation of one of the largest local unions in the United States, United Teachers Los Angeles...

Shawn, a thirty-five-year-old IT specialist who lives in Ohio, first learned about Klarna while shopping for a climbing tower to keep Memes, his American Shorthair cat, entertained. “It was at Petco,” he said, referring to...

The Amazon rainforest, vital for global climate regulation and biodiversity, faces escalating threats from deforestation, wildfires, and human activity, with over 88 million hectares lost between 1985 and 2023. Severe droughts and increased fires in...

Francisco Lezama It’s curious how mainstream cinema has explored complex topics like language or semiotics — The Matrix, for example — but has rarely delved into economics, let alone inflation. This might be because the...

One compelling way to make electoral prognostication more authoritative is to incorporate historical precedent: Donald Trump is the second coming of Andrew Jackson; Bernie Sanders is continuing the work of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal;...

Over the past twelve months, much has been written about the ways in which German “memory culture” around the Holocaust has been used to silence artists and cultural producers who speak out about the genocide...

In 2011, then president Barack Obama announced to great fanfare that Navy Seals had killed terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden. That night, crowds at baseball games and professional wrestling matches broke into chants of “USA!...

Review of We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan Peterson (Portfolio, 2024) Jordan Peterson is back with a five-hundred-plus-page book about, nominally, the Old Testament. It is the Canadian psychologist and...

We’re all still sorting through the wreckage of the 2024 presidential election, but one thing has become impossible to deny: the Democratic Party has a serious problem with working-class voters and has increasingly become a...

Interview by Andrej Markovčič In the late 1960s and early ’70s, in the context of increasing outrage over the war in Vietnam and social movement ferment, the New Left in the United States splintered in...

The films of Luca Guadagnino tend to be so rapturously received, critical opinion will soon reach the reverent heights of Guadagnino’s own self-assessment. In interviews, the director tends to adopt the tone of an aristocratic...

Big Tech and Wall Street are deploying an on-demand “Uber for nursing” model that’s racking up hundreds of millions in investments while creating unsafe, high-stress conditions for nurses and patients — all to solve a...