Jacobin

At 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, October, 19, with the sky still pitch black, the parking lot of the Executive Education Academy in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was unusually active. The charter school, tucked between a minor-league baseball...

I recently toured an Amazon fulfillment center; anyone can do it. From what I can tell, they mostly give tours of their robotics sortable facilities, the newer ones dominated by Kiva robots and other automation...

From social media personal finance influencers (“finfluencers”) to budgeting book guides, there’s been a recent explosion in popular money advice geared toward ordinary people. While the details vary, the basic blueprint is the same: budget...

In 2021, Peter Beinart wrote an article for Jewish Currents that noted that the term “anti-Palestinian” never featured in US political debate. As Beinart pointed out, this was “not because anti-Palestinian bigotry is rare but...

The devastation throughout the southeastern United States in the wake of hurricanes Helene and Milton has laid bare the importance of strong climate policy, including adaptation and mitigation measures. This is especially true because the...

The head of JPMorgan Chase and a potential treasury secretary candidate says he’s gearing up for a “knife fight” with the country’s top consumer watchdog agency — just after a lobbying group that he chairs sued the...

“When Donald Trump determined US foreign policy, the Kurdish people suffered the most,” says Berdan Öztürk, foreign affairs spokesperson for Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party. Of all those concerned by Trump’s potential...

As the election mercifully draws to a close, I’ve been tracking the polls to see how Kamala Harris is doing with union voters in swing states and nationally. Here’s what I found:As the chart above...

November 5 will see elections not just in the United States but in Puerto Rico, the island that has been a colony of the United States for 126 years. Throughout much of the twentieth century,...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is an experimental rock band from Montreal that have garnered a committed fan base over the past three decades. Founded in 1994 and cryptically named after a Japanese motorcycle gang, they...

This election season has been a tumultuous and widely debated one for the Left, on both moral and strategic terms. But strangely absent from these discussions have been the explicit promises and detailed plans from...

Adapted from remarks delivered at the 2024 New York City Democratic Socialists of America convention. In assessing the current political moment, one basic fact is very clear: we on the Left have failed. We have...