Jacobin

After the bloodiest domestic crackdown in the history of the Islamic Republic, protests have died down since their peak last Thursday evening, the beginning of the Iranian weekend. Over January 8–9, violence erupted across the...

There are a few of us who are old enough to remember everyone in the Obama White House and in liberal media defending former president Barack Obama’s failures by insisting that he never had the...

In 2024, Donald Trump won a 49.8 percent plurality of the popular vote. Many different kinds of voters pulled the lever for him for many different reasons, but he certainly made no secret of his...

Three months ago, the West Midlands police force decided to exclude fans of the Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv from attending a match against Aston Villa in Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city. They justified the...

President Donald Trump started his second term with his sights set on Greenland. When Trump first proposed buying the arctic nation during his first administration, it was treated like a joke. But in a phone call last week with...

Over the past six months, per federal procurement records reviewed by the Lever, a variety of shadowy private security and weapons firms have been tapped to provide firearms and combat training to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...

At 7:30 a.m. on January 1, 2026, the Washington Post’s editorial board rang in the new year with the headline “California will miss billionaires when they’re gone.” While Americans were still sleeping off their hangovers,...

Last Wednesday’s murder of Minneapolis mother Renee Good at the hands of federal deportation agents has shocked the nation. Many have expressed horror and outrage that an officer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which...

On January 11, the Department of Justice announced that it was opening a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell over charges that he had misled Congress about the cost of refurbishments to the...

Fifteen thousand nurses across ten campuses in New York City’s three biggest hospital systems are on an open-ended strike. It’s the city’s largest nurse strike in decades. Picket lines stretched for blocks at Mount Sinai,...

“For there to be any change for the better, a ruthless counterrevolution is needed at the Ministry of the Environment,” proclaimed Petr Macinka, chairman of the Motorists for Themselves party, in December 2024. He described...

As President Donald Trump draws the country into hostilities with Iran, shadowy conservative groups working to gut consumer protections, slash climate policy, roll back abortion rights, and push America to the far right have also...