Jacobin

As dark money spending breaks all records this election season, corporate-backed groups are trying to strike down one of the strongest state-level dark money transparency laws in the country in a key swing state. Last year,...

The moral indignation and anger at Israel’s prolonged apocalyptic war on Gaza is transformative. Israel’s genocidal tyranny has moved the conscience of the whole world, triggered a huge global protest movement in the West against...

The Saturday following Hurricane Helene, soldiers warned Whitney Anderson about the mud. Anderson and her family were going for a hike up a hill to get a view of Biltmore Village, a historic shopping and...

In 2015, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party rode into power on the back of an electoral campaign that made a clear, bold promise to Canadians: to “make every vote count.” They pledged that 2015...

Australia’s entire political establishment has turned on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU). Following the “Building Bad” investigative report into alleged union links with organized crime, Anthony Albanese’s Labor government rushed legislation through...

The most amazing moment in Donald Trump’s three-hour sit-down with podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan came about forty minutes into the interview. Leaning slightly forward, his hands spread out in front of him, Trump told...

Review of Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce (Scribner, 2024) A fixture of human existence since the dawn of civilization, peasants are rarely a concern of popular discussion today....

The City of Atlanta has bent over backward to quash the popular citizen-driven ballot initiative campaign to halt the construction of a police training facility known as Cop City. One year ago, Atlanta activists turned...

The journalist Dave Widgery was to British socialists what Hunter S. Thompson was to US radicals. His writing expressed, with greater brilliance than any of his contemporaries, the sense of hope that millions felt in...

“I’m voting ‘yes’ on Amendment 4, and I’m telling everyone I know to vote ‘yes.’” “I’m voting ‘yes,’ but it will never pass; this is the Bible Belt.” “I’m voting ‘no’ to prevent more babies...

The Donald Trump campaign just can’t help itself. Throughout this election season, as an unpopular and hapless Democratic Party threatened to hand him a victory virtually by default, we’ve gotten hints that a more disciplined,...

Former president Donald Trump’s top ally in the Senate is working to block the appointment of the government’s top anti-corruption enforcer until after Inauguration Day — a tactic designed to give Trump the power to...