Jacobin

Eleven days before immigration agents shot Alex Pretti dead in the street — before they fired four bullets into his back, paused, and then fired six more into his motionless body — they’d had a...

Pepijn Brandon In a certain sense, yes, and in a certain sense, no. This has been a point of contention from the time of the revolt itself: whether it was a revolt primarily for religion...

For nearly forty years, little has happened in Britain’s Labour party without the seventy-two-year-old Lord (as he still is) pulling at least some of the strings. From early ally of Tony Blair to Britain’s ambassador...

On Wednesday, Spanish labor minister Yolanda Díaz announced that she won’t be a candidate for office again in 2027. Long a popular representative of the radical left, Díaz’s decision to step back strikingly illustrates the...

On Thursday, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani attended the White House to meet with President Donald Trump for a second time. Afterward, his administration posted an image so surreal it was hard to believe...

In a barbershop in downtown Srinagar, in what locals still call Shehr-e-Khaas, the crowd is not waiting for haircuts. They are waiting for the toss — the coin flip that determines who bats first. The...

The United States is attacking Iran because Donald Trump was determined to drag us into war no matter what — and despite repeatedly insisting he would do the exact opposite. Trump’s entire approach this term has...

Hours after Tehran had agreed to the unprecedented concession of eliminating its nuclear stockpile, Donald Trump announced the launch of a “massive and ongoing” US and Israeli air war to topple the Islamic Republic. Trump...

Artificial intelligence is unlikely to produce permanent mass unemployment, Vivek Chibber argues. But without class struggle from below and state action, automation will deepen inequality and leave workers to bear its costs. Whether AI is...

News of the Greens’ victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election came at 4:30 a.m., but the losers’ excuses were already prepared. The Labour Party had suffered a typical defeat for incumbents but still run...

Claiming to deliver on President Donald Trump’s promise to stop corporate landlords from buying up single-family homes and fueling the housing crisis, an industry-backed Republican senator is circulating legislation that could actually block states from...

In 2011, as the Wall Street firm he founded went public amid allegedly stripping companies for parts, wiping out small-time investors, and misleading its own customers about fees, Leon Black threw himself a sixthieth birthday party. The two-hundred-plus guests dined on steak, crab cakes,...