Jacobin

Whether covering international conflict in Ukraine or Gaza or reporting from the front lines of the culture wars, journalists are, we are frequently told, unreliable, biased, and motivated by partisan political agendas. It is a...

Interview by Eric Blanc Two years after October 7, public outrage against Israel is widespread, yet the US grassroots movement in solidarity with Palestine is nowhere near as powerful as it needs to be. While...

Earlier this summer, an Albanian friend in Istanbul told me a story. During the Cold War, Albanians fleeing Enver Hoxha’s People’s Socialist Republic of Albania would cross Lake Shkodra in boats. If they were lucky,...

This is David Adler, now in Amman, Jordan, having been only recently liberated from an internment camp in the Naqab Desert, where I was held with hundreds of other participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla...

In celebration of what would have been his hundredth birthday, the Criterion Channel is currently featuring an extensive series of films by maverick auteur Robert Altman, who became so renowned in the 1970s that the...

Two years ago, Hamas carried out a spree of stomach-churning atrocities against mostly Israeli civilians that left the entire world rightly sickened and enraged at the terrorist group, and with enormous reserves of sympathy for...

Inequality in the United States is higher now than at any point since the early twentieth century. The broad prosperity of the postwar era has been replaced by deindustrialization, mass layoffs, and the erosion of...

An endless tide. “I haven’t seen a march like this in twenty years.” “Maybe against the war in Iraq, but I’m not sure. Maybe since the 1970s.” Comments like these are being heard in towns...

The first time I encountered Peter Thiel’s name was in China, about a decade ago. He was scheduled to give a talk about his 2014 book, Zero to One, at tech-focused Tsinghua University (known as China’s...

There is no bright future for the global labor movement without strong, democratic unions at Amazon. Amazon represents the future of work for all of us. Ninety years ago, capitalists looked to General Motors as...

A paper published a few years ago in the American Economic Journal has raised eyebrows within and outside of the profession. Combining national accounts data with household surveys, its authors found that the United States...

British politics is in a period of upheaval, with the two-party model unraveling as Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK gains ground. Yet amid this turmoil, the past fortnight has been surreal even by recent standards....