Jacobin

As Israel is permitted to continue its daily slaughter in Gaza, it’s hard not to look at the current push to recognize Palestinian statehood as a cynical way for Israel’s backers to delay doing anything substantive to stop it. Crowds form as Palestinians line up to...

The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike. Air Canada flight attendants at Pearson...

One of the results of the Pink Tide, the wave of left-wing governments that swept Latin America in the 2000s, was to strengthen ties with China and other Global South nations. Donald Trump rightly sees this emerging order as a challenge to US hegemony. President of...

Conservative news broadcast giants that have curried favor with President Donald Trump are now urging the administration to eliminate rules holding back their monopolization of local and national TV stations. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force...

Every single university in Gaza has been destroyed. A historian writes about the recent efforts among the American Historical Association to condemn Israel’s scholasticide and genocide. People walk past al-Aqsa University, leveled by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City...

In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why Washington found the idea of regime change in Iraq so irresistible — and why, despite that disaster, it has now set its sights on Iran. President George W. Bush speaks in the White House Rose Garden,...

On this day 60 years ago, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. Its protections have been rolled back in recent years — and our fundamentally undemocratic Constitution is to blame. President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pen to civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther...

The labor movement has a key role to play in opposing the madness of a nuclear arms race and the possibility of nuclear war. In the 1980s, progressive unions did just that. A protest at the waterfront park in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 6, 1983. (John Blanding /...

The labor movement has a key role to play in opposing the madness of a nuclear arms race and the possibility of nuclear war. In the 1980s, progressive unions did just that. A protest at the waterfront park in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 6, 1983. (John Blanding /...