Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a livable future can’t be won without organized labor.At the core of the...
Evangelical Christian Zionism used to be one of the most coherent voting blocs in the US. But cracks are starting to appear in this coalition as its members grow disillusioned with Israel and enamored by Christian nationalism.Participants in the "United for Israel"...
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with the same dismal results.Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social...
After Benjamin Netanyahu bizarrely tweeted a Jacobin story about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak last week, Israeli politicos are denouncing us as antisemitic conspiracy theorists — without engaging with what’s in the...
Health insurance giant Anthem is introducing a new policy that will penalize hospitals for using physicians outside of its coverage network, forcing medical facilities to police physicians’ network status and decrease care options for patients.Anthem’s new policy may...
Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI wield tremendous influence over our politics, but does this mean we are entering an era of technofeudalism? In a wide-ranging discussion, Evgeny Morozov and Cedric Durand ask how we ought to understand contemporary capitalism.CEO of Meta Mark...
Critics allege that Zohran Mamdani only won New York City’s mayoral election because of slick social media content and easily wooed voters. On the contrary, an analysis finds that his messaging contained vastly more policy detail than Andrew Cuomo’s.Far from lacking...
Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty will be a fight for what’s winnable right now. Our job is to let that fight expand, not narrow, our horizon — and to keep alive the goal of socialism in our time.Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announcing the members of his transition team in...
At the behest of the pharmaceutical lobby — and after millions in political donations — Republican lawmakers have defanged rules that would lower the prices of life-saving medicines, amounting to a more than $8 billion windfall for Big Pharma.This year, the...
Last week, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib proposed three pieces of legislation under the umbrella of her “Economic Dignity for All Agenda.” These bills would create a comprehensive system of economic security reaching nearly every American.The combined impact of the...
A recent article in the establishment security journal Foreign Affairs makes the case for nuclear proliferation among America’s allies. Not only are its arguments unsound, but they also understate the willingness of the US’s rivals to respond in kind. Establishment...
Organized labor has been more effective at defending the welfare state in Belgium than in most European countries. After recent actions resisting austerity plans, a three-day strike this week seeks to finally defeat the right-wing government.Governments cutting...