Jacobin

Private equity firms have been quietly taking control of dental care over the last decade, pushing practices to cut costs and, in some cases, encouraging unnecessary and irreversible procedures. A dental assistant with her patient in Denver, Colorado, on July 2, 2025....

For decades, many leftists dropped talk of economic planning due to its association with Soviet bureaucracy. But both the climate crisis and the reality of massive state intervention in capitalist economies have made democratic planning inescapable. A...

To keep the US happy, Mark Carney’s Liberal government is pushing Bill C-2 — expanding surveillance, limiting refugee protections, and eroding privacy in the name of national security. It’s Canada’s own PATRIOT Act, minus the excuse of an actual attack. Mark Carney,...

Yet another study confirms what we already know: economic populism is the only way for Democrats to win working-class voters. A voter walk to the voting booth at Bedford High School during the New Hampshire primary on February 11, 2020, in Bedford, New Hampshire....

Between 1915 and 1924, the Queensland Labor Party set about building socialism in Australia’s Sunshine State. It was and remains one of the most ambitious reforming programs in Labor’s history. Queensland premier T. J. Ryan, photographed in 1916. (State Library of...

Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations. Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more. Private security firm G4S...

The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and dividends. That hasn’t stopped them from pushing for sharp hikes to Americans’ insurance premiums. Medical assistant Jezleen Espinoza, right, checks...

For all of Eddington’s loud chaos, writer and director Ari Aster is expressing a fundamentally flat and stale vision of the world. Joaquin Phoenix in Eddington. (A24) Writer-director Ari Aster tends to end his narratives in careening mayhem that finally exhausts...

The history of anti-communist purges in New York’s hotel workers’ union provides a lesson in how socialists can both gain and lose influence within the labor movement. A campaign poster on the street advising voters how to cast their ballots for an election for...

In the last year and a half, thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are taking part in a long tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism in the United States. Socialist representative Meyer London in New York on...

A new study from the Center for Working‑Class Politics and Jacobin reveals where working-class voters stand on the key issues and how their views compare to wealthier Americans. The message is clear: economic populism must be the core of progressive appeals to...