Jacobin

Zohran Mamdani’s surging mayoral campaign in New York City embodies, for many, the promise of a new wave of democratic socialists targeting mayoralties and city council seats across the United States. Unsurprisingly, the campaign has...

Looking out at more than 13,000 of you here in Forest Hills Stadium, it is tempting to believe that this moment was always destined. Yet when we launched this campaign on October 23, one year...

Bolivia’s October 19 runoff vote not only elected the center-right Rodrigo Paz Pereira as the next president but put the final nail in the coffin of the nearly twenty-year rule of an indigenous left-wing coalition....

Who are the principal leaders of the opposition to Donald Trump’s authoritarianism? It certainly doesn’t feel like the Democratic Party establishment these days. Watching Zohran Mamdani run for New York City mayor, it increasingly feels...

Last year, US unions cautiously celebrated a turnaround in their organizing fortunes. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election win rates had reached 79 percent, and the number of workers organized for the year approached one...

It’s been a tough few weeks for Graham Platner, the political novice who became the surprise frontrunner to take on Maine’s long-serving GOP Senate incumbent, Susan Collins. They’ve seen a rolling series of bad headlines...

When the federal government shut down on October 1, so too did the country’s publicly managed National Flood Insurance Program, which covers about 90 percent of the flood insurance policies in the United States. That...

This spring, in association with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, three university branches of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) brought a lawsuit to...

One of the elements of W. E. B. Du Bois’s argument in Black Reconstruction in America that surprised me most the last time that I taught it (or maybe the time before that), was just...

Fast-food chain Shake Shack recently updated its terms of use agreement to include a binding arbitration agreement and class-action waiver denying customers their legal right to take companies to court. These provisions are showing up...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has inked a new $5.7 million contract for AI-driven social media surveillance software, according to federal procurement records reviewed by The Lever. It’s the latest move in the agency’s ongoing quest to build...

In response to my article on inequality reduction, Matt Bruenig claims that I am “simply the latest victim” of “the most deceptive paper ever written” on the subject. It is an admittedly odd task to...