Jacobin

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi What is clear is that the protests were overwhelmingly anti-systemic and about repudiating the Islamic Republic in its entirety. Obviously, there were those who were calling for freedom: they were saying death to...

Music making is a social achievement. Its technical skills are reproduced and disseminated through communities of musicians, its instruments are products of industry, and its performance routinely involves coordinated, collaborative effort. While a guitar or...

The small Central American nation of El Salvador has of late assumed an outsize role in the western hemisphere. With a vengeful and reckless Donald Trump back at the imperial helm, Nayib Bukele, an elder-millennial...

Senate Democrats are right now formulating a list of conditions they say must be fulfilled for them to consider providing votes for more funding to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). One of those items could be Democratic legislation that...

Labor and patient rights are under attack in New York City. We write as nurse leaders at three of the biggest hospitals in the city: Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York-Presbyterian. For months during contract...

John Ganz The Leninist theory of imperialism rests on the idea that surplus capital in the imperial core must be exported abroad in order to remain profitable. Lenin identifies four core features of imperialism, but...

Back in 2024, I wrote about a curious case at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was pursuing exotic legal theories that would, if adopted by the NLRB...

House Democrats just helped their GOP colleagues advance a bill establishing a taxpayer-supported corporate lobbying committee within Wall Street’s top regulatory agency, whose only purpose would be to give an even greater voice to pro-corporate...

Over the last several weeks, tensions over the future of Greenland have raised the risk of a military confrontation between the United States and its NATO allies, even as all sides say they hope to...

As consumers get bilked so that health insurers can rake in profits to pay their shareholders and executives billions in combined stock value each year, one industry-backed congressional Democrat is inserting himself into the spotlight to proudly defend Big Insurance. On Capitol...

Escalating political violence in this country — including the recent killings of Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter by federal immigration agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US Border Patrol —...

What work does it do, the spectacular and superfluous excess of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence, cruelty, and killing on the streets of Los Angeles, Chicago, and most recently Minneapolis? As much as its...