Of the 32 US states that forcibly sterilized people in the 20th century under the influence of eugenics, only three have taken accountability by compensating survivors. A group of researchers is trying to make Utah the next. Earnest Lewis Reynolds, a victim of the...
This May Day, Jacobin invites you to a conversation about what socialism could look like in the twenty-first century — and how we can build it. A party will follow. Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara will moderate a discussion between theorist Nancy Fraser and...
Tech companies accused of exposing consumers to fraud want the Trump administration to let them freely buy and sell your personal information. Experian North America offices in Costa Mesa, California on October 19, 2018. (Paul Bersebach / Digital First Media / Orange...
Humans, it is sometimes said, are defined by our capacity for choice. We are not moved to act merely by instinct: we choose what we do and how we do it. This is part of what it means to be human. Immanuel Kant, the influential Enlightenment-era German philosopher, did...
Amid war and sanctions, Syria’s health care system has collapsed. These new photos from Jacobin’s correspondent in Syria show how, in the absence of a functioning state, volunteers and doctors have become the last line of defense. A child undergoing open-heart surgery...
Discussions of whether Trumpism is fascist often lose sight of the political stakes of the issue. But like Italian and German fascism, MAGA reflects a political system failing to address capitalist crisis. Wounded veterans hold signed "Make America Great Again" hats...
The 33-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani’s laser focus on affordability, smart media strategy, and undeniable charisma have made him a serious challenger for New York City mayor — and a likely fixture in New York politics for a long time to come. Zohran Mamdani...
From corporate hellscapes to doomed cross-class relationships and climate dystopias, there is no shortage of recent novels that draw attention to the miseries of life under capitalism. It’s this literary movement that Australian author Michelle De Kretser responds to...
The world’s developing countries are still recovering from the commodity shock and debt crisis that followed the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The disruption of global trade caused by Trump’s tariffs now threatens to reignite the crisis. An American...
Released almost 50 years ago, Joan Micklin Silver’s touching film about the decline of print media, Between the Lines, is a love letter to news and the people who make it. Still from Between the Lines (1977). (Midwest Films) Near the beginning of Joan Micklin Silver’s...
Even as Americans have suffered under Donald Trump’s tariffs, it’s only the complaints of CEOs that have led him to change course — a perfect example of oligarchy at work in the United States. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during the swearing-in ceremony for...
Donald Trump has aggressively pushed migrants to self-deport. It is a strategy the Republicans have learned from the global far right, which has sought to circumvent human rights by creating a hostile environment for immigrants. Migrants walk along the US-Mexico...