Jacobin

A lot of things are unspeakable until suddenly they’re not. The lab-leak theory for the origins of the 2020 pandemic was racist disinformation; now, commentators and experts acknowledge it’s a genuine possibility. The idea that...

Teamsters general president Sean O’Brien gave a speech at the Republican National Convention two days ago. In that speech, O’Brien declared, “The Teamsters are not interested if you have D, R, or an I next...

Jeremy Corbyn It all happened with a sense of enormous urgency, with the coincidence of the Labour Party banning me from even applying to be the candidate, Sunak calling a general election, the Labour machine...

The Korean electronics firm Samsung is the world’s biggest manufacturer of memory chips. It also usually outpaces Apple, its main rival, for the production of smartphones. Until last month, Samsung’s workers had never gone on...

Even in the wake of an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that left two dead on Saturday, guns are still being allowed just outside the Republican National Convention this week in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

Journalist Gideon Levy is one of the most articulate critics of Israeli war and apartheid. He spoke to Jacobin about the grim pro-war mood in Israel and the need for international pressure to end its...

On a trip to Las Vegas, where rents climbed twice as fast as wages last year, President Joe Biden is pitching a plan for national rent stabilization — sort of. The plan wouldn’t directly cap rents — despite a growing freak-out from the...

Well, that was fast. Immediately following the past weekend’s shocking assassination attempt on Donald Trump, reports stated the former president had an epiphany. Out was the demonization, recrimination, and incendiary rhetoric that had characterized partisan...

Review of Spirit of Revolution: Ireland from below 1917–1923, edited by John Cunningham and Terry Dunne (Four Courts Press, 2024). Ireland is now emerging from the “Decade of Centenaries,” commemorating the events of a century...

What a weird movie. Fly Me to the Moon, marketed as a bright, luxe, starry romantic comedy set during the United States vs. Russia space race and the Apollo 11 launch of 1969, is tottering...

A significant portion of the money bankrolling the Heritage Foundation — the conservative think tank behind the sweeping Project 2025 initiative to reshape the federal government if former president Donald Trump is reelected — comes...

I finally saw Kinds of Kindness, the Yorgos Lanthimos film that showed up in theaters surprisingly soon after the writer-director’s triumphal award-winner Poor Things (2023). It reunites Lanthimos with his Poor Things actors Emma Stone,...