Jacobin

The state of democracy in the United States, as anyone who has taken a glance at the news knows, is not strong. Donald Trump has continuously and brazenly attacked the norms and laws that shape...

Automation was meant to lighten the load, not empty out the payroll. As Amazon axes 14,000 jobs and plans to cut tens of thousands more, the future of work under AI will depend on who...

When Bill Gates speaks about climate change, the world listens. That’s why his new essay,  “Three Tough Truths About Climate,” is so troubling. Gates argues there’s “too much” emphasis on “near-term emissions goals,” ostensibly for...

This wasn’t supposed to happen. When Zohran Mamdani launched his mayoral campaign in late October 2024, the candidate himself was probably the only person in the city who thought he could win. Donald Trump’s election...

Zohran Mamdani ran an excellent campaign. But his victory was made possible by a decade of serious electoral work by New York City’s democratic socialists and the structural dysfunction of the political establishment. There was...

The phrase “socialism or barbarism,” popularized by the German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, is by this point a cliché on parts of the political left. To plenty of liberals, the sentiment is liable to scan as...

Home insurance has never been more expensive: across all fifty states, rates are skyrocketing faster than home prices and economy-wide inflation, draining homeowners of billions of dollars in premiums amid rising policy cancellations — especially...

Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) expired on Saturday amid the government shutdown, putting an estimated forty million people at risk of going hungry. Already the news is full of stories about local...

Sometime tonight, we will probably learn that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor of New York City. Since the thirty-four-year-old state assembly member became the Democratic nominee and front-runner in the race,...

In the digital world, attention is king, and because clicks feed revenue, our social feeds are now full of AI-generated ragebait and misinformation. But according to a recent report in the Financial Times, we are...

After years of record-breaking election spending, blatant influence-peddling at the highest levels of government, and pay-for-play access schemes starring some of the most powerful CEOs in the world, Americans have a pretty good idea of who’s pulling all the...

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson has just wrapped up his tour of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Invited by Israel’s diaspora minister, Robinson visited the Nova Festival Memorial, met Tel Aviv–based anti-immigration activist Sheffi...