The enactment of Donald Trump’s horrendous Big Beautiful Bill is an indictment of the Democrats’ decision to split their agenda into two separate bills in 2021. It’s a reminder that Build Back Better’s failure wasn’t guaranteed — it was a political choice. Joe Biden...
Director Adam Curtis’s latest BBC docuseries, Shifty, follows Britain’s late-20th-century retreat into make-believe as managed decline tears everything apart. It’s the familiar Curtis aesthetic, but still as powerful and haunting as ever. Then British prime minister...
The online right loves to say the Left can’t meme. Alma Tuuva — a meme account admin recently elected in Finland — talked to Jacobin about why the libertarian right is so influential on social media and how she’s getting her anti-capitalist message across. In the...
No one should be surprised that Zohran Mamdani supports democratic control over the economy, the end goal of socialism. But he won because he combined socialist politics with practical solutions to the cost-of-living crisis facing working people. Zohran Mamdani speaks...
Across Europe, trade unions have a long history of making political demands for universal health care and benefits. The unique brutality of the US capitalist class bred a labor movement that has often limited itself to being a private insurance provider. Samuel...
Donald Trump’s budget is a particularly cruel manifestation of the bipartisan consensus of the preceding decades that has refused to treat health care and other basic necessities for a dignified life as public goods. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican...
As Paris’s deputy mayor, Ian Brossat massively expanded the French capital’s public housing stock. He spoke to Jacobin about the left-wing city hall’s record and what lessons it might have for Zohran Mamdani in New York. Ian Brossat at the meeting of the Nouveau Front...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quite possibly the most hyped technology in history. For well over half a century, the potential for AI to replace most or all human skills has crisscrossed in the public imagination between sci-fi fantasy and scientific mission. From...
Donald Trump’s administration has cracked down hard on Palestine solidarity activism. But despite profound repression, many students on American campuses continue to demand that universities stop investing in companies that profit from the destruction of Gaza. A...
Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has sealed a $1.4 billion deal to redevelop Albania’s largest island. Long a protected area, now it’s set to be paved over to build a luxury resort. Jared Kushner at Turning Point USA’s Teen Student Action Summit, on July 23,...
In 1880s Texas, farmers and factory workers discovered they had the same enemy: corporate capitalists. Their alliance birthed American populism and offers lessons for today's working class divided by false urban-rural antagonisms. An illustration of the citizens’...
Supply-side progressivism is forging unexpected alliances between populist Democrats, business-friendly centrists, and MAGA Republicans around militarized growth. The result is a post-neoliberal politics that accommodates authoritarian populism. (Daniel Mekis /...