Jacobin

In the final days before New York’s mayoral election, every politico and news junkie seems to be looking for a lesson in Zohran Mamdani’s rise. How exactly did an obscure legislator overcome the collective power...

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. In April 1912, Walter Lippmann was feeling...

Branko Milanovic Absolutely. That’s why the book’s subtitle is “National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World.” We all agree that neoliberal globalization has really run its course. It’s not only because of Trump. Joe Biden’s...

One Utah woman who recently learned that her family’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) plan would increase by over 300 percent next year, amounting to over $2,100 per month in premiums, described the increase as “devastating.”...

The new Yorgos Lanthimos film Bugonia is a wild, delirious ride, with an ending that’s driving certain critics to ranting fury. But it’s starting strong with the public, giving Lanthimos his best opening weekend ever....

Two quick points about Zohran Mamdani that we need to remember. First, it’s easy to see Mamdani’s victory as one data point, lost amid a sea of other data points. But Mamdani’s victory is a...

All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the nation-states that were once nation-empires. The 1960s marked a critical moment for the nationalization of history in the Western European societies confronting...

Last night in Brooklyn, after his win in New York’s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani gave a victory speech that quoted Eugene Debs, directly challenged Donald Trump, and laid out a vision for a New York...

“The truth is there’s a quiet civil war going on in the Democratic Party right now,” Andrew Cuomo told Fox News, as he fought for his political life against rival Zohran Mamdani a week out...

On March 15, 2006, the United States was nearly three years into its second Iraq war. After over a decade of brutal sanctions and continuous bombing, in spring 2003, the US had launched a full-scale...

None of it worked. The months of smears. The months of sabotage from the Democratic establishment. The absurd accusations of antisemitism. The even more absurd insinuations that Zohran Mamdani is a secret Islamic fundamentalist plotting...

Zohran Mamdani facing 9/11-themed attacks from Andrew Cuomo’s political machine and criticism from a billionaire at a Saudi conference, and then being elected mayor of New York on the same day Dick Cheney passes —...