Nostalgia for a bygone gender regime is more than a weird social media trend. It reflects larger system pressures — on elites facing technological disruption that might generate social unrest, and on ordinary women buckling under the weight of modern work. For...
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With His New Film, Alex Gibney Shines a Light on Dark Money
Jacobin sat down with the prolific muckraking filmmaker Alex Gibney to discuss his new documentary The Dark Money Game, on the terrifying ramifications of Citizens United and how it’s empowered the same oligarchy now unleashed by the Trump administration. Filmmaker...
Trump’s Plan to Restore US Financial Dominance
Behind the seeming chaos of Trump’s tariff policy, there’s a coherent plan to reboot what Peter Gowan dubbed the “Dollar–Wall Street Regime.” The goal is to strengthen US power around high-tech digital oligarchs, and it might yet succeed on its own terms. US president...
Donald Trump Is Weakening US Influence in Latin America
Thanks to its stances on issues ranging from deportations to trade policy, the Trump administration is undermining US influence across Latin America, increasing political polarization in the region, and strengthening the hand of progressive forces there. US president...
Tariffs and the Shop Floor
A former garment worker reflects on rank-and-file agitation in the US garment industry just before the industry fled the country. Garment workers use sewing machines at a textile facility in New York City in 1975. (Brownie Harris / Corbis via Getty Images) Tariffs are...
“Most Workers Don’t Want Their Money Going to Foreign Wars”
The United Auto Workers’ Brandon Mancilla explains why his union has continued to oppose the genocide in Gaza, why slaughter abroad is tied to workers’ decline in living standards at home, and the union’s pushback to Donald Trump’s war on higher education. UAW members...
The Free Spirit of Germany’s Carnivals Is Under Attack
Carnivals in Germany have long satirized the powerful. Calls to keep politics out of the festivities are now being used to silence dissent. A Carnival float mocks Elon Musk, the German party AfD, and the United States during the annual Rose Monday parade on March 3,...
Trump’s Tariffs Have Done What No US Adversary Could
Great powers often decline through self-inflicted blows. By starting a trade war he was unable to follow through on, Donald Trump may have just dealt a severe one to the United States. President Donald Trump attends the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 21, 2025....
Can Canada’s Left Survive Trump’s Second Term?
The NDP helped build Canada’s welfare state. Now, under pressure from Donald Trump’s tariffs and a shifting political terrain, the party risks electoral annihilation as voters split between technocratic centrism and right-wing populism. Canada’s New Democratic Party...
Rich and Successful Enough to Be Moral
Rutger Bregman’s book Moral Ambition calls for successful people to use their talents to “make a difference.” But he’s suspicious of systemic change — making his call for personal morality into a shallow exercise in self-help. Rutger Bregman is seen during his speech...
Bet on Worker-to-Worker Organizing
There are no guarantees that any approaches, new or old, to reversing the labor movement’s decline will succeed. But Eric Blanc makes a case for why we should wager on worker-to-worker unionism. Starbucks union members and their supporters, including baristas who have...
An Italian Communist in the Ethiopian Resistance
On April 25, Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s resistance against Benito Mussolini’s colonial occupation. Portrait of Ilio Barontini. (Wikimedia Commons) Giuseppe Di Vittorio...