We asked our editors and contributions what you should read this summer. They answered with everything from romances set in the former East Germany to thrillers about Russian mercenaries. Our beach reading recommendations have often been at odds with most people’s...
Assembling a successful electoral coalition is difficult, but forging a governing coalition to run the city is even harder. Longtime social movements scholar Peter Dreier offers some advice for the potential next mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani. Zohran Mamdani...
Iran has long held that conflict with Israel can be managed by limiting its retaliation within clearly defined parameters. But through its preemptive attack, Israel has revealed that it is not a rational actor and upended the rules of war. Search-and-rescue teams...
From the diaspora to the occupied territories and the Palestinian minority in Israel, left-wing forces have played a major role in organizing popular struggles for democratic rights in Palestine. A new Jacobin podcast series looks at their impact and legacy. A member...
Iran has long held that conflict with Israel can be managed by limiting its retaliation within clearly defined parameters. But through its preemptive attack, Israel has revealed that it is not a rational actor and upended the rules of war. Search-and-rescue teams...
From the diaspora to the occupied territories and the Palestinian minority in Israel, left-wing forces have played a major role in organizing popular struggles for democratic rights in Palestine. A new Jacobin podcast series looks at their impact and legacy. A member...
Discussion of cyberfraud tends to focus on people who are cheated out of their money by scammers. But this vastly lucrative industry also relies on the forced labor of those who have been trafficked to work in prisonlike compounds in Southeast Asia. A group of Chinese...
Almost a century ago, labor activist Emma Tenayuca led Mexican American women in San Antonio’s legendary pecan shellers’ strike, facing down bosses, police, and the Klan. Today amid renewed nativist hate, we can learn from her example. Emma Tenayuca in city jail at...
The crash of 2008 was supposed to augur the end of ultraspeculative financial capitalism. But financial actors have actually gone from strength to strength since then, and fictitious capital is a bigger menace to global economic stability than ever. Signage for a...
Training AI often means staring at humanity’s worst atrocities for hours at a time. Workers tasked with this labor endure psychological injury without support — and face legal threats if they speak about it. Behind every AI model promising efficiency, safety, or...
A community organizer in New York’s working-class Asian neighborhoods argues that what set Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary campaign apart was his taking seriously the needs of immigrants and working-class people squeezed by the cost of living. Zohran Mamdani, the...
More than six months since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the fate of Syria’s Kurdish population remains uncertain. While new president Ahmed al-Sharaa declared a new interim constitution in March, the great unmentioned question was the Kurds’ place in the new...