Many conservatives argue that the order in which a person achieves certain life milestones is key to their financial security. The point of the argument is to blame individuals for their poverty. Proponents of the “success sequence” tell us that, in order to follow...
For years, David Keeling oversaw health and safety operations at companies where workers fell ill and died in extreme heat. If confirmed as the head of OSHA, he could help their campaign to block federal heat protection rules. An Amazon driver wipes away sweat while...
Canada’s nationalist backlash against Donald Trump helped stall right-wing populism in this week’s election, but the underlying class dealignment remains. Workers are still drifting rightward, and the social democratic NDP is in shambles. Canada's prime minister–elect...
Male self-esteem is indexed to wealth, an unstable prospect in a highly economically unequal society. In search of an alternative source of validation, many young men are turning to misogynistic ideas. The Left needs to provide alternatives of our own. Influencer...
We’ve come a long way from the days of Cold War paranoia, when unions wanted nothing to do with the Communist-sounding International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day. Can it become a real American holiday celebrating class struggle? Women marchers at a May Day...
Get a digital subscription to Jacobin today for just $1. Print subscriptions are only $10 today, too. Just follow this link. The people who run the planet have 364 days in their honor (more on leap years!) — the people whose labor makes it run have only one. So happy...
Fifty years since the triumph of national liberation forces, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber explores the true story of the Vietnam War — not as a tragedy of American overreach but as a triumph of Vietnamese resistance. Vietnamese people celebrate after the liberation...
Rather than ushering in a new era of Latin American unity, Donald Trump’s tariffs, anti-immigrant policies, and withdrawal of humanitarian aid have mostly highlighted its divisions. US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on...
The US invasion of Vietnam was a catastrophe for the Vietnamese people, resulting in millions of deaths. Fifty years ago today, the US-backed regime finally collapsed as North Vietnamese forces took control of Saigon. Two Vietnamese women mourn their relatives on...
One hundred days into Donald Trump’s presidency, the primary victim of America’s war against the world is America. Donald Trump talks to reporters he departs the White House on February 28, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) The first hundred...
Just 100 days into Donald Trump’s second term, some wonder if the US faces a constitutional crisis. Yale law professor Samuel Moyn tells Jacobin that, rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John...
Donald Trump’s first 100 days have shown what a vigorous use of executive power actually looks like. But aside from permanently hobbling the modern American state, it’s hard to see what he’s actually achieved with it. Donald Trump speaking to members of the press...