Jacobin

Western defense giants tout cutting-edge tech, but their “state-of-the-art” systems often fall short in asymmetrical warfare. From faulty missile defense systems to overpriced carriers, the only thing that consistently works is the profit machine. Crew...

Economic power is political power. We spoke with Peter Phillips, author of Titans of Capital, about how the capitalist class is subverting democracy and controlling the lives of billions through massive investments in everything from...

If you have to convince somebody that something is money, it almost certainly isn’t. But there has been a marked shift in the world of digital currencies and crypto-denominated digital assets: their advocates seem to...

Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, is a magnet for internet comparisons, memes, and clichés: he’s the Midwestern dad you always wanted, he’s Friday Night Lights’ Coach Taylor, he’s a fount of avuncular normal-guy aphorisms. But to me, Tim Walz is an archetype...

Five tenants’ unions from around the country convened on Tuesday to announce the launch of a new national organization to take on the power of multistate real-estate capital. The Tenant Union Federation marks the first major...

Israeli prisons are operating as a system of torture camps. Palestinians detained by Israel since October 7 have made such claims for months, their words backed up by extreme weight loss after being released from...

António Melo has lived all his seventy-one years in Lisbon’s Alfama neighborhood. But after the owner sold the building to a tourist accommodation company, they refused to renew his contract. “I fear eviction at any...

When Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea stood onstage at the Republican National Convention and ripped open his shirt, revealing a red Trump/Vance 2024 tank top underneath, he was reenacting a public victory ritual familiar to all...

When Joe Biden announced he would drop out of the 2024 presidential race and endorse Kamala Harris in his stead, unions were muted in their initial response. Harris, formerly a senator from California, isn’t entirely...

How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold: Tale of a Redemption by Philipp Felsch (Wiley, 2024) What I hate [in the Revolution] is . . . the so-called “truths” that give the Revolution its lasting...

This election season, an anti-immigration nonprofit with ties to hate groups is pushing conservative lawmakers to expand a controversial worker surveillance tool that critics say is discriminatory and harms businesses and workers. At a recent...

When it comes to authoritarianism, it seems you can always rely on a German state official to go the extra mile. We saw a classic example of that on Tuesday, August 6, as a Berlin...