Jacobin

I’m so excited to be here with you all. It feels to me that this is the political moment so many of us have been waiting for and working to build for years. We’re a...

A year after the pharmaceutical industry’s top lobbying group delivered a secret multimillion-dollar donation to congressional Republicans, GOP lawmakers quietly defanged rules lowering the price of life-saving medicines. Weakening these rules helped turn the Pharmaceutical...

ContributorsCédric Durand (CD)Evgeny Morozov (EM)Susan Watkins (SW) When Donald Trump was sworn into office in January, he was flanked by Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and a collection of other tech billionaires. For some, this moment...

It’s not hard to imagine what would happen if the Jeffrey Epstein saga had any other country at its center. If the well-connected billionaire sex trafficker was rumored to have ties to the ruling elite...

A new policy by the health insurer Anthem will penalize hospitals for using doctors outside of its coverage network. Anthem claims the move is designed to reduce its members’ out-of-pocket costs. But critics argue it will force medical facilities to...

Throughout New York City’s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani’s critics routinely attributed his rise to his slick and entertaining social media content, allowing them to dismiss the appeal of his politics. It’s certainly true that Mamdani’s...

Last month, the streets of Brussels were painted red, green, and blue. In a major protest on October 14, 140,000 workers heeded the call of Belgium’s three trade union confederations — socialist, Christian, and liberal...

On November 19, Foreign Affairs published an article by Moritz S. Graefrath and Mark A. Raymond, two University of Oklahoma professors, arguing that the United States should bestow nuclear weapons on Germany, Japan, and Canada, three of...

On Friday, November 21, Representative Rashida Tlaib introduced a comprehensive “Economic Dignity for All Agenda” (EDAA) consisting of three bold legislative proposals: updated versions of the End Child Poverty Act and the BOOST Act, alongside...

As more details come to light about Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire sex trafficker is increasingly suspected of having used his wealth, influence, and connections to shape the way political power is used, particularly when it...

As I was scrolling through the New York Times app recently, a paid post appeared on my phone screen. The title in bright green letters placed over Belgrade’s city skyline at dusk announced: “Ready, Set,...

Why was Donald Trump so solicitous toward New York’s democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani when he visited the White House on Friday? Throughout his mayoral campaign, Trump attacked Mamdani as a Communist who would destroy...