Jacobin

It shouldn’t be the least bit surprising what many pundits who assured people about Kamala Harris’s almost certain victory are blaming for the election result: misinformation. They’re right — just not in the way that...

President Joe Biden has roughly two months left before he hands the reins to another Trump administration. Can he do anything during this lame-duck period to safeguard federal institutions and government protections from the coming deregulation bomb? According...

This summer, the French left was on the up. For the second time in two years, its often-fractious parties formed an electoral alliance, this time named the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP). It outperformed expectations in...

A group of Wall Street–backed charity funds fueling the dark money takeover of American politics is set to help collect half of all individual charitable donations within the next three years. These funds, the largest of...

Sofia Orr On my enlistment date, this February 25, I went to the enlistment center and told them I was refusing enlistment. They were really confused because it’s very rare, and they don’t have any...

When Democratic donors attacked the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris administration’s chief antitrust regulator, Lina Khan, during this year’s election, Vice President Harris declined to defend her, prompting some critics to say Harris was abandoning...

A sudden declaration of martial law by an unpopular president late Tuesday night focused domestic and global attention on South Korean politics. For the last two and half years, Korea’s pro-democratic opposition has decried President...

Most recent elections around the West have seen voters punish incumbents for rising inflation and the end of pandemic-era support programs. Ireland’s election last Friday was thus something of a relief for ruling parties Fianna...

The two-party system is not working for American voters, who have little option but to participate in a repetitive electoral ritual of throwing out the party in charge in hopes that the other one can...

At an East London cinema last summer, several dozen people in their late sixties and early seventies took to the stage. After being beckoned forwards by the compere, the veteran South African revolutionary Ronnie Kasrils,...

Bruno Leipold Most centrally, republicans held to a particular understanding of the idea of democracy. They were trying to create democratic regimes that were committed to, certainly, universal manhood suffrage, but also to much more...

Many people know that economic inequality has grown significantly over the past few decades. But it may shock you just how much global wealth is controlled by a tiny capitalist class — and how much...