Jacobin

While left-wing governments hold power across most of Latin America, ultraright social forces remain a threat. In Bolivia, powerful left-indigenous social movements have managed to keep an insurgent right wing at bay since the devastating...

Emmanuel Macron wants to try again. By tapping François Bayrou as prime minister on Friday, France’s president hopes to retain power via a shaky governing coalition between the Macronists and the center-right Républicains. And as...

Interview by Sara Wexler On November 22, workers at a Whole Foods store in Philadelphia filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). This marks the first such filing by Whole...

In the Marx Brothers’ 1933 comedy Duck Soup, a strongman is named president of the fictional country of Freedonia. Chaos ensues, culminating in a war with the neighboring country of Sylvania. The film satirizes politics...

Review of Europe Without Borders: A History by Isaac Stanley-Becker (Princeton University Press, 2025) Outside the European Museum Schengen, dedicated to the eponymous 1985 agreement in which France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands promised...

As the cryptocurrency industry scored massive electoral wins in November and skyrocketing crypto prices currently push the global valuation to more than $3 trillion, federal regulators have issued warnings about the nascent industry’s potential to...

There’s a sobering moment in one of Stuart Hall’s reflections on Margaret Thatcher’s triumph. “History,” he lamented, “is not waiting in the wings to catch up your mistakes into another ‘inevitable success.’ You lose because...

The American people are falling hard for Luigi Mangione — so hard that it may become a crisis, in the minds of elites. The outpouring of support for the young man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare...

A working-class woman fighting a health insurance claims denial has been arrested after ending a call with Blue Cross Blue Shield with a comment falsely construed as a credible threat. Briana Boston, a forty-two-year-old mother,...

In May 2022, I was texting with the organizers of a debate slated to happen later that summer in New York. The panel so far consisted of me and right-wing commentators Tim Pool and James...

Democracy exists to give every citizen a voice; the alternative is a consolidation of power to a handful of ultrawealthy and well-connected people. Healthy democracies, combined with conscious-minded, empathetic citizens, actively prevent oppression and political...

The following article is a preview from the Winter 2025 issue of Jacobin, “Bye Bye Biden,” which is out next week. Click here to subscribe to receive the entire issue in print and online. As...