Vladimir Mayakovsky was a great poet of the October Revolution. Yet at the start of World War I, the young futurist had embraced the spirit of war — before seeing what it really meant. Vladimir Mayakovsky at his exhibition 20 Years of Mayakovsky's Works in July 1893....
Donald Trump is hoping his tariffs will goad his liberal opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class. Democrats don’t have to take the bait. President Donald Trump speaking in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington,...
In Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, Donald Trump sees a far-right authoritarian who has something he doesn’t: an actual popular mandate. President Donald Trump welcomes President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to the White House on April 14, 2025, in Washington, DC....
Donald Trump’s attorney general Pam Bondi’s call for Luigi Mangione to receive the death penalty is a dangerous political intervention in support of the indefensible. Luigi Mangione appears at a hearing for the murder of CEO Brian Thompson at Manhattan Criminal Court...
Democrats are hoping Trump will discredit himself with a recession, while the Left sometimes fantasizes about crisis destabilizing capitalism itself. But economic crises cause massive human suffering and have recently redounded more to the Right than the Left. A...
The first American book with the word “Sociology” in its title was Sociology for the South (1854) by the Virginian anti-abolitionist George Fitzhugh. This was one of a large number of screeds from this period that sought to defend the economics, politics, and morality...
The fossil fuel industry is pushing Congress for immunity from climate lawsuits that could force the industry to pay billions for misleading the public about the dangers of fossil fuels — attempting to lock in the same legal shield that protects gun manufacturers. A...
Socialists can’t give up on the future. Illustration by Rose Wong The following article is from the Spring 2025 issue of Jacobin, “Progress.” Click here to subscribe to receive the entire issue in print and online. Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba,...
Historian Omer Bartov spoke to Jacobin about why scholars of the Holocaust are struggling to talk frankly about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - APRIL 05: In an airstrike carried out by the Israeli military on a house belonging to the Abdulhadi family in...
Today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ. Historian Quinn Slobodian explains how these ideas can be fitted together. Elon Musk holds a chain saw as he shakes hands with Argentine...
The experience of thousands of people watching soccer together is at the heart of the game. After decades of being demonized as thugs, the crowd’s absence during the pandemic revealed nothing but a void. Fans of CA Osasuna celebrate a goal during a football match...
New Jersey’s storied WFMU is not just another independent radio station. It’s a rejection of algorithm-driven playlists and a lasting commitment to music as a collective experience. A sign for the opening day of WFMU's annual record fair on November 22, 2013, in New...