Jacobin

While the United States is on the precipice of another war in West Asia, only a few months after the abduction of Venezuela’s president and with the football World Cup only a few months away...

By the time you actually see Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, if you wind up committing that mad act, you might be surprised at how you’ve exhausted the strength of your scorn on the previews. They...

For most of our lifetimes, we’ve been inculcated to perceive the Supreme Court as above the dirty, conniving, unprincipled dynamics of day-to-day politics. In this fairy-tale version of America, politicians are the nasty ideological street brawlers,...

For decades, the Nordic countries have occupied a special place in the global political imagination. Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden are routinely held up as proof that capitalism can be tamed: high wages, strong unions,...

WTO/99 opens not with chaos but with assurances. Protesters against the World Trade Organization (WTO) — the body countries turned to when they wanted to challenge another nation’s labor or environmental protections as “barriers to...

Historian Steve Fraser looks back on the strange experience in 1969 when he and fellow New Leftists were accused of plotting to blow up Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell. What is it like to face long-term incarceration...

Max Beckmann “never busied himself with barricades” — or so he claimed. The German painter and printmaker insisted he was apolitical. “I have only tried to realize my conception of the world as intensely as...

One of the core claims of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor last year was that government can and should work effectively and efficiently for the people it serves, with “public excellence” as...

Few documents have captured the attention of foreign policy elites like the 2025 US National Security Strategy (NSS). Released quietly in early December, it quickly prompted praise in Moscow and Beijing, while provoking dismay and...

In the last quarter of 2023, Israel was simultaneously reeling from the shock and trauma of the October 7 Hamas attack on the cities and kibbutzim of the Gaza Envelope and mobilizing for a campaign...

Last month, there was an event in Havana to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Tricontinental Conference, a major international gathering held in the Cuban capital between January 3 and 13, 1966. This came just...

While Zohran Mamdani was trouncing his opponents in the New York City mayoral election, Tanmay Shah, a twenty-nine-year-old Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member and South Asian immigrant, who ran on a platform of affordable...