MMA used to be home to oddballs unified by a love of beating each other up inside cages. But since Donald Trump’s first presidency, the UFC has rebranded the sport as a refuge for the “anti-woke sports fan,” while breaking unions and censoring the media. President...
When Donald Trump was forced to pause most of his tariffs, the country got a basic lesson in Marxist state theory: when states push policies that threaten profits, they trigger mechanisms that discipline them back into line with capitalist interests. President Donald...
Canadian Conservatives are discussing how to emulate Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency north of the border should they win the upcoming federal election — and they think they can make cuts even more quickly than the Trump administration has. Canadian...
Stellantis used the Trump administration’s tariffs as an excuse to lay off nearly 1,000 workers. Two weeks later, the automaker announced a $2.26 billion payout to its shareholders. The Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on...
Canada’s climate plans are a PR front for a carbon-export economy: its oil sands are distorting the economy and derailing any hope for transition. The country’s upcoming election reveals how far leaders are from reversing course. Steam rises from the Syncrude Canada...
When my toddler’s day care started turning parents away at the door due to staffing shortages, I learned it was owned by private equity — which maximizes enrollment to squeeze profit out of childcare and now owns eight of the 11 largest US day care companies. A...
Steering the country toward another potential financial crisis, the Trump administration has moved to completely gut the federal regulatory agency tasked with reining in financial institutions. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in...
Bowing to the chemical industry lobby, the Environmental Protection Agency has quietly hid data that mapped out the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities across the US. A chemical plant in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," one of the most polluted areas of...
Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. The historian and author of The Age of Choice, Sophia Rosenfeld, spoke to Jacobin about the complex legacy of an idea that helped forge the modern world. City workers...
International politics is deeply hostile to democratic intervention. At least part of the reason for this is that stability rather than equality or justice is the guiding norm of international relations. The figurative smoke-filled rooms in which peace is settled and...
“Price optimization” consultants are helping clients capitalize on Trump’s chaotic tariff rollout by using surveillance pricing tools, while Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson is reversing efforts to keep them in check. A customer shops at a grocery store on...
From Charter rulings to back-to-work laws, tools once used to manage Canadian labor disputes are now deployed more aggressively — and more often. Quebec’s Bill 89 is pushing this trend forward, making striking harder, riskier, and easier to repress. Railworkers and...