Jacobin

At the very beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, this magazine warned that his mass deportation plan wouldn’t just affect immigrants, but that it was a direct threat to the safety and civil liberties of...

It is a commonplace that “neoliberal” thought and practice has an anti-redistributive bent. But dig a little deeper, and neoliberalism — or, at least, the mainstream economic thinking that has underwritten much policy in the...

On Sunday, President Donald Trump delivered a speech on board the USS George H. W. Bush to mark the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the US Navy. A lot of it was...

The Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union representing 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York (CUNY), spent much of the summer battling against the rise of right-wing McCarthyist assaults on American...

Heading into this shutdown, the Democratic Party has never been more unpopular. Republicans see Democrats as dishonest and corrupt, while their own base sees them as ineffectual and out of touch. Democratic leadership understands that...

Czech voters have decided. After four years in power, the government led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala is coming to an end. When this traditional right-wing camp unexpectedly defeated Andrej Babiš in the 2021 elections,...

For the second time in a year, Canadian postal workers are on a nationwide strike, fighting back against what could be the final nail in the coffin for the publicly owned postal system. Following a...

For more than a year now, French politicians have been struggling with the lack of an absolute majority (or even a comfortable relative majority) in the National Assembly. In December 2024, for the first time...

At the UN General Assembly, which took place in New York last month, member states normally speak in a carefully determined order based on their level of representation, preference, and geographic balance. But, following long-standing...

It was early 2012 when doctors found a tumor in Kim Franzi’s brain. It was a meningioma — a typically slow-growing, noncancerous tumor that originates in a layer of tissue between the brain and skull....

Following the Soviet collapse, millions of Russians came to doubt that there had ever been a Mongol invasion. The reality of the Mongols’ conquest of northern Eurasia, previously taken to be the defining event of...

Two years into its war on Gaza, Israel faces global condemnation and a growing Palestinian solidarity movement. Yet, as analyst Mouin Rabbani explains, US support remains unwavering, and Israel shows little concern for the world’s...