Earlier this month, flight attendants at Air Canada rejected a proposed tentative agreement by a resounding 99.1%. It was the latest act of defiance by the 10,000 flight attendants at the airline, who illegally struck in August. The excitement many had felt on August...
President Emmanuel Macron last week appointed France’s fifth prime minister since the start of 2024. This Thursday’s mass strike suggests that his gambit has done little to settle the country’s political crisis. Thursday’s strikes across France were the latest upsurge...
What would it take to go from reforms within the capitalist system to a democratic socialist society? We face the challenge today of building the kind of socialist movement and party that will not back down in a moment of rupture with the capitalist system. (Michael...
New polling shows that only about a third of Americans (36 percent) approve of Donald Trump’s handling of the economy, and only about 30 percent think he’s doing a good job lowering the cost of living. This is important because the economy and the cost of living were...
Epic Systems, the largest electronic health records company in the US, is pushing users of its ubiquitous online health portal MyChart to sign away their rights to sue the company if it mishandles their sensitive information. Epic is currently facing an antitrust...
Abraham Lincoln is often invoked in calls for civility and reconciliation across the partisan divide. But Lincoln himself understood that such reconciliation was impossible in his own time until justice had been served and slavery abolished. What made Abraham Lincoln...
Cuba has developed its own infrastructure for producing medical treatments that has a remarkable track record despite the US blockade and other material constraints. One new drug has the potential to alleviate the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Still from Teresita’s Dream....
Despite massive investment and grand promises, AI companies are struggling to deliver returns. The bubble may be deflating, but like the dot-com crash, the aftermath could consolidate power in the hands of tech giants. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta,...
After campaigning on ending censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump is making the list of things you're not allowed to say in his America longer and longer. ABC’s cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show signals that not even comedians are safe. Last night,...
Menswear expert Derek Guy talks to Jacobin about where Western men’s clothing traditions came from, how they have evolved, and how they're being continually reinterpreted. Four men model the latest two-button suits of 1963 in front of a crowded Paris restaurant....
Since Bernie Sanders’s insurgent bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, democratic socialism has migrated from the margins of American politics to a visible and popular current. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) now boasts candidates with...
This year’s congressional defense spending bill would further entrench the military’s role at the US border and, for the first time, allow the Department of Defense to outsource border security work to private contractors. Personnel from various agencies reinforce...