Jacobin

Six weeks before Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, the battle lines of the next phase of the Mexico-US relationship are quickly being drawn. On November 25, the president-elect took to his Truth Social account to threaten...

Private equity firms now hold contracts at nearly two-thirds of the country’s ninety federally designated immigration detention facilities, according to new research shared with us — meaning opaque, unaccountable, and profit-gouging Wall Street interests are...

Donald Trump’s pick to head the Internal Revenue Service pressed the agency to investigate and consider stripping the country’s leading animal welfare group of its tax status after it supported an initiative to protect dogs,...

Much media coverage of Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense has focused, understandably, on controversial things he has said or done, along with his complete lack of administrative experience relevant to running a federal...

To hear him tell it, Rep. Jamie Raskin is running to be the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee to protect democracy. “We are in the fight of our lives. The stakes have gone...

John Reynolds Part of it has to do with the slow pace at which international law generally moves; part of it has to do with the various political obstacles and procedural objections that invariably arise...

A bit less than six months ago, former CNN White House correspondent John Harwood wrote that “people who insist [Joe] Biden will pardon” his son Hunter Biden “after specifically ruling it out are telling on...

One of the sayings most often (falsely) attributed to Vladimir Lenin holds that “there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen.” Outgoing German federal chancellor Olaf Scholz, who doubtless read the Russian...

“I do not want to do four more years of ‘Resistance’ nonsense under Donald Trump. Good God,” democratic socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said a few weeks before the election. “Does anyone remember what that was...

Confronting Capitalism, a new Jacobin podcast hosted by Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber, starts from a basic premise: if you want to go beyond capitalism, first you have to understand why it is such a powerful...

They said it wouldn’t happen again in South Korea — not after more than four decades during which hundreds of thousands of people were beaten, tortured, jailed, and killed while defending democracy against one strongman...

The no-confidence vote in Michel Barnier’s government highlights the failure of Emmanuel Macron’s neoliberal project. Far from reviving the liberal center, the president has pitched France into a historic political crisis. French president Emmanuel Macron...