Jacobin

This article first appeared in the Winter 2025 issue of the German edition of Jacobin. Each time I relocate to Germany, I buy a mug. This usually entails a trip to the nearest TK Maxx, where...

Shukria Mahmoud, age sixty-two, was two months pregnant when the United States launched a brutal, house-to-house assault on the central Iraqi city of Fallujah in 2004 — a campaign against insurgent anti-occupation militants that left...

João Paulo Rodrigues In the immediate future, the MST plans to join forces with the left wing of the Lula camp. Beyond that, the movement will join the Left more broadly as Brazil enters the...

Ahead of the holiday season, the Trump administration just let Southwest Airlines off the hook for the remaining government payments of a record-setting $140 million fine brought by the Department of Transportation after the airline’s...

Michael Green wrote a piece at the Free Press in which he provocatively argues that the real poverty line is $140,000. There is not really much to the piece. Green just plugged a New Jersey...

Michael Pettis Exactly. The paradox is that if instead you repress domestic wages and use your earnings to subsidize, say, manufacturing, you will grow more quickly. The problem is that your production will grow faster...

In the early 1830s, Asenath Nicholson’s boardinghouse in lower Manhattan was a favorite gathering spot for reformers of all stripes. One visitor described it as a “club des Jacobins” and identified William Goodell as one...

This story was written in collaboration with Belly of the Beast, an independent media organization that covers Cuba and US-Cuba relations. A retired CIA station chief was sentenced to a year and a day in...

The assassination of Chris Hani in April 1993 was a decisive moment in South Africa’s transition to democracy. Nelson Mandela used this tragic event to pressure President F. W. De Klerk to conclude negotiations and...

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is easily the most successful political party in the developed capitalist world. While other long-standing parties of government have gone into crisis and decline, from the Italian Christian Democrats to...

When Charlie Kirk was murdered earlier this fall, he was upheld as a martyr by conservatives not just in America but globally. He had not hitherto been an especially international figure nor was his assassination...

The challenge of climate change is aptly called “civilizational.” We live in a world built by fossil fuel energy. The costs of fossil fuels are well documented — not just climate change but also millions...