Jacobin

For Raphäel Kempf, “we have made the terrorist enemy into a figure against whom anything is permitted.” Worse, it’s undermining the basic of law itself, “whether those actions [in response] are entirely outside the law,...

A host of shocking reports on Monday revealed that Israeli soldiers in the Sde Teiman detention facility are accused of raping a Palestinian detainee.  The allegation comes after Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported in June that...

Last March, the Australian union movement hosted a forum in Melbourne on climate-industry policy. Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) president Michele O’Neil set the tone in her opening address. Pointing to the “twin challenges”...

In June and July this year, millions of Colombians in the country itself along with members of the extensive diaspora turned on their TVs and radios to follow the Colombian national soccer team’s extraordinary progress...

I hadn’t heard of Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of Minnesota, before this past weekend. But like many people, I’ve been struck by the pivot he’s signaled in how the Democrats, and the Left more...

In 2006, Wesley Bell attended a $2,000-per-ticket event welcoming President George W. Bush to St Louis, Missouri. At the time, Bell was managing the campaign of Mark Byrne, a conservative Republican running for the MO-01...

“The American left,” as the historian Matthew Karp wrote in Harper’s recently, “has failed to develop a politics capable of winning over the American public.” From economic inequality and workplace democracy to Gaza, the Left...

On Monday, July 22, iNews reported that the Sun and Sunday Times gave last-minute election endorsements to Labour following “private assurances” that Keir Starmer would not implement Part Two of the Leveson Inquiry to investigate criminality and relationships of...

Review of Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood by Helen Charman (Penguin: Allen Lane, 2024) Mothers, apparently, dream of hospitals. The “hospital fantasy” is one where an exhausted, overburdened carer becomes the cared-for. It...

After an immensely profitable opening weekend, Deadpool & Wolverine is on track to dominate the international summer box office. Clearly, it’s hit a sweet spot for audiences. It combines nostalgia for superhero movies past with...

For months, media pundits and Biden campaign operatives have been scratching their heads attempting to describe why, given all the measures that seem to indicate a strong economy, people think it’s bad. Paul Krugman has...

Three women sit before their country’s highest deliberative body, on trial for incitement of hatred against a religious group. Their statements, which rigorously distinguish political speech from criminal harassment, earn widespread condemnation from liberal and...