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The stunning, rapid demolition of the East Wing of the White House does not sound the death knell of the United States of America, despite the breathless pronouncements of some observers. But it is a...

For horror film aficionados, the year 1960 will always be associated with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, which is generally argued to be the first “modern” horror film. The year is even more of a landmark if...

The Trump administration says it will withhold funding for food stamps starting November 1. The move will inflict hardship on tens of millions of lower-income Americans who rely on the program and potentially cause broader...

The two most powerful men in the world, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, just concluded their first in-person meeting since 2019. The meeting represents a brief truce between the United States and China after months...

Across the country, cities and states have been grappling with how to resist the Donald Trump administration’s escalating and increasingly violent mass deportation raids. Some have moved to ban masks and bar local law enforcement...

Across the country, people are increasingly defaulting on their car loans — a particularly dire economic indicator because car loans are usually the last payment that Americans are willing to miss. As the economy stagnates...

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are the names that usually come to mind when people hear the word “socialism.” These two were not, however, the originators of socialism, but rather of a particular variant rooted...

Peter Oborne On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a series of horrific atrocities. In their aftermath, it was natural that the world would feel sympathy for the innocent people who were killed. There was...

Catarina Príncipe There was an unfounded expectation for this year’s election that the PCP was going to disappear while the Left Bloc would do at least a little better. That didn’t happen: the Communists got...

In this year’s election, New York City voters are being asked to weigh in on one of the hottest-button issues in municipal politics: land use. Ballot questions 2, 3 and 4, proposed by outgoing mayor...

Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad has been a leading witness of the genocide in Gaza. In an interview with Jacobin, she explains how Western media misrepresentations have enabled Israel’s crimes. Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad tells Jacobin...

We’re coming up, in two years, on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Albert Hirschman’s The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. Some of you may know of Hirschman as...