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 /...
Ten years ago today, the people of Greece voted decisively in a referendum to reject an EU austerity program. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis tells us how it happened and of the betrayal that followed. Yanis Varoufakis, Greece former finance minister,...
The US government is already preparing massive celebrations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for next July 4, the country’s semiquincentennial. It’s high time to scrap the antidemocratic system the framers bequeathed to us. (Wikimedia Commons)...
Shulamith Firestone’s writing captured the utopian spirit of radical feminism. In her last published book, Airless Spaces, she took stock of that movement’s failures amid the crisis of care unleashed by the destruction of the welfare state. Shulamith Firestone...
Those who think that the Christian churches are responsible for all the ways in which Western society’s attitudes toward sex are repressive, unhealthy, demeaning, and misogynist will not find vindication in Diarmaid MacCulloch’s latest book, Lower Than the Angels. Nor...
Donald Trump’s budget bill is set to make ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in US history. The mass deportations the far right fantasizes about will remain unrealistic, but not for lack of funds. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at...