Jacobin

Mondays and Wednesdays are loud at the vast Boeing factory in Everett, Washington. As the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ (IAM) contract campaign heats up, the workforce has been serenading management at lunch...

Socialism developed in Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries against the background of general social upheaval caused by rapid modernization. In 1853 and 1854, United States commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived in...

Bill Skarsgård is the only cute Skarsgård out of the many tall Swedish Skarsgårdian actors who haunt our screens. He’s big-eyed and gaunt and sweet-looking, as opposed to father Stellan with the small shifty eyes,...

France’s parliamentary elections went better than expected for the Left. While polls predicted victory for Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National, her defeat in the July 7 run-off votes was a relief for the left-wingers who...

Record-breaking temperatures and billion-dollar climate disasters occurring every three weeks in 2024 have even climate skeptics in the United States scratching their sweaty heads. Climate change is claiming lives and land: fires in New Mexico...

The Federal Reserve chair has finally completed his “dovish” pivot. Speaking in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the site of an annual get-together of central bankers, Jerome Powell effectively put an end to the cycle of monetary...

One of the more interesting sideshows in a US presidential campaign that has not lacked for drama and surprise has been candidate Donald Trump’s growing obsession with United Auto Workers (UAW) president Shawn Fain. Amid...

There is nothing inherent or natural about the way we experience the built environment. Those structures of feeling, thought, and action, of association and signification, that shape our perception of urban space, much like the...

Armen Aramyan Philosophy in Russian academia is really weird. Only a few departments teach it properly, and there is a lot of diversity between them, but the Higher School of Economics mainly focused on logic...

In Canada, false environmental claims are now illegal. Under legislation passed in June, companies may be penalized for making representations to the public about their products’ ability to mitigate climate change without being based on...

In the wake of Teamsters chief Sean O’Brien’s remarks at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July, liberal commentators were aghast at the very idea of a labor leader validating Donald Trump’s popularity with American...

Burning Man might seem like the ultimate “escape” from capitalist reality: an annual anarchic gathering in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, full of pyrotechnics, nudity, drugs, robots, and bizarre vehicles. The short-lived city that...