By substantively rebuilding its national sovereignty, Canada can de-link itself from US economic and political domination. Canadian prime minister Mark Carney and US president Donald Trump during the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Alberta, Canada, on June 16, 2025....
Wrangling over the construction of nuclear power in New York State has revealed the priorities of some of the state’s biggest environmental lobbies. For them, creating bureaucratic procedures they can oversee is more important than building clean energy. A cooling...
Over the past thirty-five years, Mahmoud Assaf has collected over thirty thousand books in his Gaza City home. Despite being displaced five times (from Gaza City to Khan Yunis to Rafah, and now to a tent in Deir al-Balah), the renowned Palestinian author manages to...
In both of the absurd controversies over Zohran Mamdani’s college application to Columbia and the furor over the phrase “globalize the intifada,” we see the experiences of one subjugated people being used to preclude any understanding of another subjugated people....
The global birth rate collapse threatens more than economic dynamism and the viability of the welfare state. It poses a threat to the future of radical politics. A newborn baby surrounded by empty cribs in a maternity ward in Brandenburg, Germany, on August 12, 2011....
Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City’s mayoral primary last month has resulted in absolute meltdowns from billionaires, genocide supporters, and other assorted defenders of the status quo. Let’s pause for a moment to enjoy them. Zohran Mamdani in Manhattan, New York,...
Pundits have emphasized Zohran Mamdani’s videos and charisma and Andrew Cuomo’s weaknesses in Mamdani’s victory. But easily the most important factor in that victory is the movement that the Democratic Socialists of America have built in New York City. Zohran Mamdani...
Saikat Chakrabarti, a founder of Justice Democrats and former top AOC aide, is challenging Nancy Pelosi for her seat in Congress. He talked to Jacobin about his vision for an ambitious program to transform the US economy and reverse class dealignment. Saikat...
Israel has used snipers and even naval artillery to attack Gazans lining up for aid as part of a long-term plan to ethnically cleanse the strip. Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani explains what might be capable of constraining Benjamin Netanyahu. Gazans wait in line to...
The horror of Donald Trump’s war on Iran as experienced by an Iranian living in New York City. The destruction of a home in Tehran after it was hit by an Israeli air strike on June 23, 2025, in Iran. (Majid Saeedi / Getty Images) June 17 The hours pass without me...
After the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, the British ambassador in Paris said it best: “The troops left the capital and the populace remained the unmolested masters of everything.” The uprising had world-historic implications, and the broader French...
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell recently warned that the United States was at risk of stagflation, a combination of high inflation and economic slowdown. When this happened in the 1970s, capitalists used the crisis to attack organized labor. Fed Chair Paul Volcker...