Jacobin

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 /...

Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this. Palestinians line up in Gaza...

Donald Trump’s tariffs may not amount to the end of neoliberalism. But their potential success — a sign that the neoliberal consensus is no longer hegemonic — suggests that the old world is dying, and the struggle over what replaces it has only just begun. Donald...

Led by Delta, many airlines are now working with AI firms to expand the industry’s use of big data for price setting. Using new surveillance techniques, these firms exploit consumer privacy to set “personalized” prices to jack up fares. A Delta Air Lines plane taxis...