Jacobin

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York’s Democratic Party primary for mayor in June 2025 and victory in the general election on Tuesday has provided a dose of hope to a Left seeking a path...

In Cameroon, history seems frozen in time. For forty-three years, power has had only one face: that of Paul Biya. The ninety-two-year-old president has just secured an eighth term in office, which should extend his...

The biggest left-wing political story of the week is democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor of New York City. But Mamdani’s was not the only socialist victory on Tuesday. Just like with almost every election...

I went to see Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon because I’m one of the extremely niche group of people still living who care about the life and work of lyricist Lorenz Hart. Hart was a scintillating...

This summer, a small group of tenants in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park made history when they successfully forced the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) and the city attorney to enforce the city’s...

Canada’s new declarations of independence disguise continued economic and cultural reliance on its threatening neighbor. From Mark Carney’s trade diplomacy to the literati’s self-congratulation, Canada can’t imagine a freedom that isn’t defined by the US....

In February, at the start of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, news broke that a group of military contractors was circulating a blueprint for mass deportations, to be carried out by private contractors. Led by...

The next issue of Jacobin, out next month, centers on the promise and limits of municipal socialism. Subscribe now at a discount to make sure you secure a copy in print. Zohran Mamdani is just weeks away from...

Nobody will be more surprised than me that I quite liked Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, because I hate biopics as a rule. Also, the film’s previews seemed to indicate that the movie would mostly...

Fifty years ago, Morocco threatened to start a war with Spain in order to seize Madrid’s colony in Western Sahara. Hassan II, Morocco’s embattled monarch, rolled out this exercise in brinkmanship on October 16, 1975,...

In 1985, Nancy Pelosi ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and lost. The contours of that fight are long forgotten, save for one detail that became central to Pelosi’s mythology. Amid a...

For former governor Andrew Cuomo’s corporate allies and ultrawealthy megadonors, purchasing New York City’s 2025 mayoral race should have been business as usual. But thanks to the city’s little-celebrated public campaign finance system, Zohran Mamdani,...