Jacobin

Philippe Van Parijs In terms of social justice, I am — against Rawls, Michael Walzer, and many other “egalitarians,” a globalist. Any global equalizing mechanism is prima facie a contribution to greater justice, and migration...

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the congressional budget bill that simultaneously exploded the federal budget deficit and slashed deep into the United States’...

Unionized Starbucks workers are electing strike captains and getting customers to pledge they won’t cross picket lines. They’re amassing in front of stores with picket signs, borrowing a slogan that UPS Teamsters used during their...

Review of The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy by Paul Holden (OR Books, 2025). It was Thursday, June 8, 2017, and barely a mile away, Big Ben was striking...

Sitting on the boundary of the Pacific’s Ring of Fire, the Philippines is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. Volcanic activity, earthquakes, and tsunamis are all real and present risks across the vast island chain. Typhoons,...

Last spring, while Donald Trump was levying tariffs on Canada and musing about making the country the “cherished” fifty-first state, the Liberal Party was deploying a strategy of political judo, redistributing the force of the...

Last Saturday, millions of protesters turned out across the country for the second “No Kings” march against Donald Trump. Trump, ever the statesman, responded with a Truth Social post that contained an AI-generated video of...

Judith Scheytt joined the Global Sumud Flotilla to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. In her first interview since her release, she told Jacobin about how the mission succeeded in shaming Western governments for their complicity...

Over at Capital & Main, Jesse Baum has a report about the successes of “premajority unionism”: What [Dollar General stocker David] Williams needed, he thought, was a better job. He wasn’t looking to unionize his...

As tens of thousands of New Yorkers streamed down Seventh Ave from Times Square toward their dispersal point at Fourteenth Street for the city’s “No Kings” protest on Saturday, October 18, a separate march of...

Argentine president Javier Milei had a lot to celebrate during his recent visit to Washington, DC. While Americans deal with an ongoing government shutdown, mass federal firings, and looming safety net cuts that could plunge...

The first time I spoke with survivors of the Darién Gap, I was in jail in Mexico. It was July 2021, and I was serving a brief stint as the token gringa inmate in Siglo...