Jacobin

For days now, the Syrian interim government, together with Islamist mercenaries, has been carrying out attacks on Rojava, a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. Not only is a humanitarian catastrophe imminent, but also...

Released just before Christmas, Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy memo is a bizarre and frightening manifesto for MAGA’s second term. To help make sense of the document, Jacobin turned to Latin American historian Greg Grandin....

The recent wave of protests in Iran constitutes one of the most significant developments in the history of the Islamic Republic. Although the Iranian authorities imposed an internet blackout to contain the flow of information,...

Amid President Donald Trump’s violent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, industry-backed Democrats just helped congressional Republicans turn proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reforms into a $20 million windfall for the body camera industry. Federal disclosures reviewed...

As President Donald Trump gestures toward regime change in Cuba, the US Supreme Court, with Trump’s urging, has agreed to hear lawsuits that could help corporate interests recoup hundreds of millions of dollars in long-expropriated...

Review of Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention by Clara E. Mattei (Simon & Schuster, 2026) In 2021, the United States was confronted with a challenge that it hadn’t seen in decades: inflation. Working-class Americans were...

I expected the intense hype surrounding Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice would, when I finally saw it, inevitably make it less exciting no matter how good it actually was. But the hype can’t even touch...

Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this week has already generated a flurry of media commentary, the vast majority of which — at least from what I’ve seen — has...

A recent study from the Pentagon’s favorite consulting firm found that raising taxes — particularly on corporations — could dramatically reduce the federal deficit and safeguard the economy better than President Donald Trump’s inflationary and chaotic tariff policies....

It’s not often a whole city comes out to celebrate something, and still less to cheer the start of a military confrontation. Yet on Monday night, this was exactly why the Northeast Syrian city of...

On Thursday morning, amid continuing unrest in the Twin Cities after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) killing of Renee Good, the Trump White House posted an artificial intelligence–altered image of an anti-ICE protester in...

In 2025 alone, the six richest men in the country (and world) became $476 billion richer. During that year, the Trump regime cut back Medicaid — the federal medical assistance program relied on by over...