When the Supreme Court issued the Citizens United decision, it allowed a torrent of unchecked dark money into political campaigning. Ordinary Americans of all political stripes have taken notice, and they overwhelmingly disapprove of the results.According to a new...
While younger people are growing aware of the harmful effects of social media, people over 65 are consuming increasing amounts of far-right content online — and it’s impacting real-world politics.Reports show that people aged 65 and above have become terminally...
New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani recently spent the night reaching out to workers in Queens who keep the city moving after most New Yorkers are asleep. We tagged along.Zohran Mamdani’s agenda that would ease the burden of life in this city....
A new report reveals that a significant portion of Donald Trump’s defense budget is going to a select few private military contractors — the same firms who have spent hundreds of millions lobbying the federal government.In an unusual move, lawmakers are sending...
If the labor movement is going to defeat Donald Trump and other anti-worker politicians, Painters union president Jimmy Williams Jr writes, it will need a wellspring of organized workers.To defeat Donald Trump’s authoritarian power grab, labor unions have to organize...
A government-granted monopoly has allowed a pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna to overbill the Defense Department for years, in what amounts to an enormous cash transfer from American taxpayers to Big Pharma’s shareholders.It’s not breaking news that the US has a...
Long before Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet planners and economists engaged in wide-ranging debates about economic reform. But they never seriously considered the option of a genuinely participatory, democratic model of socialism that would empower workers.Mikhail Gorbachev...
Jacobin sat down with the Economist’s Mike Bird to talk about his new book The Land Trap, on why land retains its centrality in our economy even into the digital age — and how land ownership cements existing inequalities.Henry George strangles a snake representing...
The Nordic countries have far less economic inequality than the United States. Most of the difference is due to the Nordics’ welfare states.If you really want to reduce inequality, you need to ensure nonworkers have money. That means you need a strong welfare state....
The danger from artificial intelligence isn’t a Terminator-style robot uprising but tech capitalists using the technology to push their own interests. Seizing control from them is the best way to ensure algorithmic technology serves the social good.The objectives...
From 2005 to 2016, against the wishes of both the country’s ruling and opposition parties, the small Venezuelan municipality of Torres underwent a radical experiment in democracy, giving residents direct power over the budget. It worked.From 2005 to 2016, the...
Historic preservation groups responded to the White House East Wing's demolition with equivocal statements and "deep concern." Their failure to mobilize reveals how dependent liberal advocacy has become on the billionaires funding Trump's regime.As Trump builds his...