How much longer will we watch Israel starve children to death and massacre civilians seeking food before American political leaders put a stop to this madness? A charity distributes meals to Palestinians facing food shortages amid ongoing Israeli attacks and severe...
Working-class men in the US have fallen behind women on a number of indicators of well-being. This is not due to a battle of the sexes, but because decades of growing inequality and precarity have had differential impacts on men and women. “By some measures, men in...
My view, shared by very few, is that the Cold War was distinctly a US project that began in 1946–47 and ended in 1963. Its original impetus was to make internationalism — a euphemism for a worldwide scope of potential intervention — an unshakeable shibboleth of...
According to a leaked strategy paper, Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland sees socialist party Die Linke as a useful idiot that it can use to polarize society around culture-war issues. Die Linke shouldn’t play along. The coleader of the Alternative für...
In April, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi was held in detention by ICE for over two weeks despite not being charged with a crime. He speaks to Jacobin about his early life, his incarceration, and why he’s actually optimistic about the prospects for peace. Mohsen...
Conservative Jewish American charitable organizations are financing settlements in the West Bank, facilitating ethnic cleansing and fueling antisemitism by connecting Jewish culture in the US to the brutal Israeli state. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
Hulk Hogan, who died this week at age 71, was the most important professional wrestler who ever lived. He was also a terrible human being. Hulk Hogan takes the stage during a campaign rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden in New York City, on October 27,...
In the UK, Labour is advancing the Employment Rights Bill, a rare positive intervention from this government. One of its greatest flaws is that it lacks provisions to ensure worker safety in very hot weather. A European worker drinks water to cool down as he works on...
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700, representing 8,000 Kroger retail workers in Indiana, voted earlier this month to reject a tentative agreement for a second time. The vote authorized the union to strike the grocery giant. Kroger’s most recent contract...
Concern about the ongoing decline in birth rates around the world has recently transformed from an arcane demographic preoccupation into a marquee political controversy. Many were indignant when it was revealed that the Trump administration was considering a variety...
Narendra Modi’s government has launched major schemes of urban transformation in cities like Ayodhya. Behind the rhetoric of development and modernity lurks a crude Hindu nationalist chauvinism that’s seeking to erase the messy pluralism of urban life. Devotees stand...
The Trump administration is attacking jobs and wages in the building trades, as well as the rights of immigrant workers. Building trades unions have been divided over whether to try to curry favor with the president or confront the attacks head-on. Members of the Los...