Jacobin

A specter is haunting global politics: the specter of nostalgia. Nostalgia for the nuclear, single-earner family; nostalgia for the ethnically defined and uniform nation state; nostalgia for simpler, pre-Internet times; nostalgia for a time when...

Estafanía Ciro Two years ago, there was more hope for change. Petro came to power in 2022 with a promise of change, a very encouraging scenario. Now I think the window of opportunity for real...

Rwanda’s de facto dictator Paul Kagame is notorious for imprisoning his rivals (the less lucky ones are murdered). But why would he oversee Rwandan state sponsorship of Arsenal, one of the top sides in the...

Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez has earned the esteem of much international left-leaning opinion thanks to his stance on Palestine, which is among the least bad among all Western governments. But his powerful rhetoric contrasts...

Day after day, almost all of politics and media is dead set on bludgeoning your brain with one counterintuitive idea: that you can’t make the world a better place, and you shouldn’t even try, because...

The US economy is turning into one giant bank. Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85 percent of chartered banks, making the coffee chain...

The different treatment accorded to the plights of Palestinian and Israeli prisoners by US corporate media illustrates a persistent double standard that regards some people as more human than others. Take twenty-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ahmed...

France’s new prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has rejected the suggestion that the opposition Parti Socialiste might weigh in on his 2026 budget plans. Shooting down each of the center-left party’s demands, Lecornu spurned talk of...

A coalition of unions in the federal sector signed on to an extraordinary Federal Unionists Network (FUN) letter September 29 urging the Democrats to fight Trump administration cuts, even at the price of a government shutdown....

“The Italian people made us smile in Gaza.” With these words, Eman Abu Zayed, a Palestinian writer in the bombarded strip, described how Italy’s growing mass mobilizations for Palestine were resonating there. She wrote these...

The federal government shut down operations deemed nonessential on Wednesday over an impasse about whether to continue subsidies for buying health insurance at current levels. The stakes are high. In the short term, 750,000 federal...

For nearly fifty years, the fugitive revolutionary Black nationalist Assata Shakur defied the monstrous system of racialized mass incarceration in the United States. Since the 1970s, more than seven million African Americans have been caged...