Jacobin

In the storied tradition of global sport, few regions have given us a legacy as rich and influential as the former Yugoslavia in basketball. For decades, the courts of Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, and Skopje...

In Donald Trump’s Republican Party, immigration is one of the few issues on which there remains a party line. On trade, Republicans are divided between protectionists and free traders. On foreign policy, Russia hawks joust...

After the global financial crisis of 2008, Hungary’s Fidesz government was one of the first to adopt a partially heterodox, national-conservative set of economic policies. It was to become a role model for many nationalist...

Clémence Guetté France Insoumise was created in February 2016 to promote Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s candidacy for president. Its exact form wasn’t fixed at that time. The French, European, and global context helps us to understand, after...

Powerful business lobbyists are asking the US Supreme Court to use the First Amendment to block California from requiring corporations to publish their emissions data. Pro-industry trade groups and their lawyers argue that new transparency...

Amid industry lobbying, the Trump administration is taking steps to further deregulate dangerous “forever chemicals” — increasingly ubiquitous per- and polyfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFAS) that don’t easily break down and are linked to a wide range...

There is an enduring perception that the United States is an individualistic nation whose people oppose collective guarantees to the basic necessities of life. This perception is false. Look at, for example, the overwhelming popularity...

There were many facets to the life of Govan Mbeki. He was an intellectual who wrote about South African economics and politics for sixty years; a dedicated teacher, who cheerfully acknowledged his school-masterly ways; and...

As Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Paris last Monday, France’s prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, promised deeper military integration between the two countries — including an agreement by Kyiv to buy one hundred combat planes from...

Review of The Democratic Marketplace: How a More Equal Economy Can Save Our Political Ideals by Lisa Herzog (Harvard University Press, 2025) Despite American workers putting in long hours and being one of the only...

The large Guamá River and forty-two metropolitan islands frame the city of Belém, which is known as the gateway to the Amazon rainforest. Belém is shaped by the diversity of its indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultures,...

Out of the dieting craze came the more profitable culture of wellness. Today, the wellness industry is worth around $7 trillion, more than twice the GDP of France. Wellness is easier to capitalize on than...