GOP lawmakers recently ordered social media companies to testify before the House Oversight Committee to "examine radicalization of online forum users" — while notably excluding companies led by Donald Trump's closest Big Tech allies, Meta and X. A US House hearing...
Christoph Schuringa insists that analytic philosophy serves as an ideological fig leaf for liberal capitalism. But his polemic distorts the discipline’s history and fails to draw persuasive links between its development and apologias for the status quo. English...
Analytic philosophy has become the dominant school in anglophone philosophy departments since 1945. Christoph Schuringa persuasively argues that it has served to reinforce a liberal common sense that blocks the idea of radical change. Plato and Aristotle carry on an...
With Zohran Mamdani on the cusp of victory in New York City, the Left should learn from the ups and downs of embattled Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson. Brandon Johnson speaks at a Labor Day rally in Chicago, Illinois on September 1, 2025. (Audrey Richardson / Getty...
With the help of the Federal Reserve, banks are offering loans at higher rates than the interest they pay to depositors and pocketing the difference for themselves. This so-called net interest income is a wildly lucrative scheme for banks that’s only growing more...
Jake Ephros is hoping to add to the groundswell of municipal socialism across the US by winning a seat on city council in Jersey City, New Jersey, this November. Jacobin talked to him about his campaign. Jake Ephros, socialist candidate for Jersey City Council:...
Feminist calls for “abolishing the family” are having a moment. The idea raises some sharp questions about how capitalism organizes care and reproductive labor, but it also carries some big blind spots. Too often, its advocates lean on a kind of functionalism —...
While the Nordic countries have long proved capable of reconciling the best aspects of liberalism with socialism, the relationship in the Anglosphere has always been troubled. A new book, and recent events in the world, suggest this may be changing. A segment of a...
Republicans are bringing a case before the Supreme Court that has the potential to eviscerate what few remaining restrictions on campaign finance we have left. Think there should be less money in US politics? Republicans and corporate litigators want more, and they...
Companies are increasingly using algorithmic management tools as a way to maximize the exploitation of workers. The power that managers gain from these tools can seem daunting, but there are opportunities that must be seized for workers to push back. Amazon warehouse...
After decades covering Latin America's tumultuous politics, legendary journalist Alma Guillermoprieto speaks to Jacobin about chronicling life in a region where destruction comes easily, bravery is necessary, democracy is elusive, and the future is uncertain. An image...
Greenland has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. This robust state sector has helped the small island nation prosper economically over the past 50 years. (Martin Zwick / REDA / Universal Images Group via Getty...