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2025-06-22 13:04:18

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Monday, June 9, marked one year since Emmanuel Macron’s surprise move to call snap elections to the National Assembly. It was a perilous move for the second-term president — ending four weeks later with a hung parliament in which his own camp was reduced to a minority. The debate on what actually pushed Macron to […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/macron-melenchon-socialist-left-insoumise/

2025-06-22 13:04:18

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For almost two months, Panama has seen a national strike against privatization, mega-mining, and US imperialism. It is the country’s third period of mass civil unrest since 2022. Capital and the government have retaliated through police repression, persecution, and mass firings. Yet this has been unable to stifle widespread criticism of elected officials and mainstream […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/panama-mass-strikes-privatization-labor/

2025-05-21 13:41:36

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The question of “selling out” was a defining concern of the independent music scene during the 1990s. Some bands who had paid their dues, like R.E.M. and Sonic Youth, saw the act of signing to a major label as a path forward to sustain their ambitions. Younger and less experienced acts, like Mudhoney and Nirvana, […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/pavement-documentary-perry-selling-out/

2025-05-21 13:40:43

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The question of “selling out” was a defining concern of the independent music scene during the 1990s. Some bands who had paid their dues, like R.E.M. and Sonic Youth, saw the act of signing to a major label as a path forward to sustain their ambitions. Younger and less experienced acts, like Mudhoney and Nirvana, […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/pavement-documentary-perry-selling-out/

2025-05-15 12:51:16

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It’s seventy-seven years since the Palestinian Nakba — the catastrophe. Rather than a single point in time, we might think about it as a disaster whose legacies and possible outcomes are still unfolding. In its lifespan, a new geological time period has been anointed, the number of sovereign nation-states has jumped from seventy to almost […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/nakba-palestine-israel-ethnic-cleansing/

2025-05-02 14:55:26

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There’s a small A24 family film out called The Legend of Ochi, based on an original script by the writer-director Isaiah Saxon, who cocreated the children’s educational site DIY.org and founded Encyclopedia Pictura, an art collective making short films and music videos for performers like Björk. Legend is Saxon’s feature film debut, and it isn’t […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/legend-of-ochi-kids-puppets/

2025-05-01 15:40:41

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At Vox, Rachel Cohen has a piece about a new trend sweeping through conservative state houses to mandate the teaching of the “success sequence” in public schools. I’m quoted in the piece: Matt Bruenig of the left-wing People’s Policy Project think tank has been pointing out methodological problems with the sequence for the last decade. At its heart, […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/success-sequence-measurement-conservatives-welfare/

2025-05-01 13:07:26

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When my children were little in the late 1990s, we attended an annual May Day event in verdant Tilden Park, near our home in Berkeley, California. Each year a flyer, resplendent with Walter Crane illustrations, would appear in our mailbox inviting us to come celebrate. I have no memory of how we got onto the […]
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2025-04-29 19:08:46

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In 2018, Dr James Tabery watched a documentary about North Carolina’s eugenics program and the fraught effort to financially compensate survivors. The film changed his life. “Seeing The State of Eugenics . . . everything crystallized for me,” said Tabery, a professor at the University of Utah’s Philosophy Department. “It was like this isn’t history […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/justice-victims-forced-sterilization-eugenics/

2025-04-25 17:35:20

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Since its founding in 1961, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has never formed a federal government. But through a mix of policy advocacy, union alliances, and grassroots organizing, it has helped shape Canada’s political landscape — pushing issues like worker’s rights, strong public services, and robust social welfare into the national mainstream. In recent years, […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/canada-ndp-singh-trump-elections/

2025-04-23 15:10:26

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On April 2, 2025, President Donald J. Trump declared a national emergency under provisions of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The IEEPA allows the US president to unilaterally respond to an unusual and exceptional threat to national security, foreign policy, or the economy, so long as that threat originates outside the United States. […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-tariffs-capital-trade-contraints/

2025-04-23 14:13:16

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Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been on a rampage inside the US federal government, laying off hundreds of thousands of workers, dismantling programs that provide people with lifesaving vaccines, and sparking nationwide protests amid steep cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Social Security, and other arms of government […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/doge-musk-canada-conservatives-brodie/

2025-04-22 13:43:34

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just hid data that mapped out the locations of thousands of dangerous chemical facilities, after chemical industry lobbyists demanded that the Trump administration take down the public records. The webpage was quietly shut down late Friday, according to records viewed by the Lever — stripping away what advocates say was critical information […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/epa-trump-chemical-plants-data/

2025-04-22 13:18:59

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Steering the country toward another potential financial crisis, the Trump administration has moved to completely gut the federal regulatory agency tasked with reining in the very financial institutions currently making the president’s allies rich. The president’s attacks on the government’s financial regulator are a stunning about-face from 2016, when Trump first campaigned on reinstating tough banking regulations. […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-cfpb-deregulation-vought-finance/

2025-04-21 17:14:11

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Nobody saw it coming. In February, Quebec’s labor minister, Jean Boulet, of the ruling conservative Coalition for the Future of Quebec (CAQ), introduced Bill 89 to the National Assembly of Quebec: “An Act to give greater consideration to the needs of the population in the event of a strike or a lock-out.” The announcement was […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/quebec-canada-anti-strike-law/

2025-04-20 16:42:54

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The homepage of JSW Steel USA’s website features wind turbines and the tagline “Sustainable steel for a stronger tomorrow.” They also brag that they have “the most energy-efficient and lowest carbon-emitting method of steelmaking” and are “sowing seeds for a greener future.” For their greening efforts, they’ve received $43.5 million from the Department of Energy […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/march-2025-elections-jsw-steel/

2025-04-20 12:04:33

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Finland is widely seen in Western Europe and the United States as a progressive paradise. In truth, its center-right-led coalition government in office since June 2023 has presided over far-reaching austerity measures, leading to rising homelessness and cuts in local health provisions. Yet there are also signs that this period may finally be coming to […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/finns-party-left-alliance-orpo/

2025-04-20 12:04:23

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Finland is widely seen in Western Europe and the United States as a progressive paradise. In truth, its center-right-led coalition government in office since June 2023 has presided over far-reaching austerity measures, leading to rising homelessness and cuts in local health provisions. Yet there are also signs that this period may finally be coming to […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/finns-party-left-alliance-orpo/

2025-04-19 14:53:28

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The Donald Trump administration is currently in the middle of what might be the gravest federal government overreach seen this century at least, asserting unprecedented repressive powers against even US citizens, defying a Supreme Court order to rectify one of its unlawful deportations, and thumbing its nose at core principles like the rule of law […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-el-salvador-deportations-polling/

2025-04-18 13:08:35

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Every four years, like clockwork, our two major parties serve up presidential candidates whose commitment to the cause of labor is more rhetorical than real. This is most obviously true of conservative Republican courting of working-class voters. That venerable bait-and-switch routine reached its twenty-first-century apex in the form of Donald Trump’s successful faux-populist campaigns for […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/unions-bernie-trump-endorsements-democracy/

2025-04-17 20:57:52

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On April 14, federal agents snatched seafood processing worker Juan Francisco Mendez from his vehicle in New Bedford, Massachusetts, breaking the rear window with a sledgehammer while he and his wife were sitting in the car, pleading with the agents to wait for their lawyer and showing them their asylum application paperwork. “They didn’t wait […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/migrant-worker-organizing-deportations-trump/

2025-04-17 12:46:21

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April 1975 was a pivotal moment in global revolutionary history. In the space of two weeks, communist forces changed the map of Southeast Asia and sent shockwaves around the world. After the dramatic fall of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge and the capture of Saigon by North Vietnamese forces, the Second […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/cambodia-khmer-rouge-communist-history/

2025-04-16 13:06:59

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On April 9, Donald Trump reeled in his attack on the global trade system, ordering a ninety-day pause on the steep “reciprocal tariffs” announced one week prior. Targeting many of the United States’ leading trading partners, the so-called “liberation day” tariffs threw financial markets into mayhem and was the object of rare criticism from right-wing […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/arnault-billionaire-trump-france-trade/

2025-04-15 13:30:23

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On Monday morning, El Salvador’s right-wing president, Nayib Bukele, visited Donald Trump in the White House in a symbolic show of strengthening the link between the two countries. Bukele is the first Latin American president to receive such an invitation since Trump’s election. The visit comes as the two leaders have identified how they can […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/el-salvador-bukele-trump-authoritarianism/

2025-04-14 19:46:26

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“There were many things that we knew would happen,” said Kamala Harris as the stock market plunged last week in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs. A smile crept across her face as she spontaneously added, “I’m not here to say, ‘I told you so. . .’” Harris erupted into her distinctive laugh as the crowd […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/recession-economy-crises-trump-democrats/

2025-04-14 16:02:56

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Growing up in Marianao, a city next to Havana, Cuba, in the early 1950s, I remember the excitement of people in the neighborhood when our city’s side streets were paved and the road connecting Marianao with the capital was widened. Even my Jewish immigrant parents, who just a few years earlier had discovered that their […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/in-defense-of-progress/

2025-04-14 15:18:29

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Big Oil is reportedly lobbying Congress to grant their industry legal protection against a growing number of lawsuits that, if successful, could make oil and gas companies pay billions of dollars for deceiving the public about the dangers of fossil fuels. In the most extreme scenario, Big Oil could follow the example of an industry that […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/guns-big-oil-legal-immunity/

2025-04-11 20:28:57

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On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Dr Paul Chambers responded to an arrest warrant at a local police station in Phitsanulok, northern Thailand. The warrant had been issued on March 31 and there was no previous warning or summons to appear. He was promptly arrested for allegedly violating Section 112 of the Criminal Code, commonly known […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/thailand-monarchy-paul-chambers-dissent/

2025-04-11 15:30:01

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Lined by purple jacaranda trees and lush tepozanes, the walkable streets of Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood connect a dense urban environment where contemporary apartment towers rise alongside squat multifamily buildings designed in a mix of architectural styles. Surrounded by bustling cafés, creameries, and art galleries, a public park draws passersby who pause to enjoy an […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/mexico-social-housing-crisis-sheinbaum/

2025-04-11 14:20:21

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The message has apparently gone out among conservatives to start focusing on out-of-work young men in order to make cuts to Medicaid (Allysia Finley, Mike Johnson), with the idea being that if we make it so that these men cannot see the doctor when they get sick, this will cause them to become employed. On its […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/employment-young-men-medicaid-welfare/

2025-04-11 14:19:38

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The message has apparently gone out among conservatives to start focusing on out-of-work young men in order to make cuts to Medicaid (Allysia Finley, Mike Johnson), with the idea being that if we make it so that these men cannot see the doctor when they get sick, this will cause them to become employed. On its […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/employment-young-men-medicaid-welfare/

2025-04-10 21:54:27

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On April 2, Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day,” marking the beginning of a new tariff regime that he promised would transform the American economy and its place in the world. Liberation appears to have been short-lived — as of April 9, Trump has announced a ninety-day pause on the tariff policies enacted with such fanfare […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-tariffs-investment-capital-strike/

2025-04-10 16:31:49

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On Thursday, March 27, non-tenure-track faculty at Wellesley College went on strike. Wellesley, a women’s liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, boasts such high-achieving alumnae as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Madeleine Albright. With its mission of educating “women who will make a difference in the world,” the college broadly presents itself as a progressive institution […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/non-tenure-track-faculty-strike-wellesley/

2025-04-10 15:08:09

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Not even the reality show La Casa de los Famosos, a spin-off of Big Brother, managed to surpass the audience of the first televised Council of Ministers in Colombia last February. Millions of Colombians watched live as some ministers criticized President Gustavo Petro, another lavished him with praise in a tone resembling a declaration of […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/colombia-petro-election-pacto-historico/

2025-04-10 14:00:08

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Simon Clarke was a British sociologist who made an immense contribution to Marxian thought and labor studies before his death in 2022. With his theoretical and empirical research, he set an example of how to analyze the developments of capitalism at different levels simultaneously and how to situate them in history. Clarke’s most influential books, […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/simon-clarke-capitalism-crisis-economy/

2025-04-10 13:11:55

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Donald Trump announced Monday that he will propose a $1 trillion military budget as part of his 2026 federal spending request. “One trillion dollars . . . nobody’s seen anything like it,” Trump said. “We’re very cost conscious, but the military is something that we have to build.” Later that day, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-military-spending-medicaid-cuts/

2025-04-09 13:22:21

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Today, and every April 9 to come, should be a national holiday. A holiday to commemorate, celebrate, and sanctify the story of the most revolutionary expansion of democracy and freedom in the history of the United States. A holiday to celebrate the defeat of the Confederacy. One hundred sixty years ago today, Robert E. Lee […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/civil-war-emancipation-national-holiday/

2025-04-09 13:14:59

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Today, and every April 9 to come, should be a national holiday. A holiday to commemorate, celebrate, and sanctify the story of the most revolutionary expansion of democracy and freedom in the history of the United States. A holiday to celebrate the defeat of the Confederacy. One hundred sixty years ago today, Robert E. Lee […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/civil-war-emancipation-national-holiday/

2025-04-08 19:37:39

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It is with a sense of incredulity that I find myself writing a review of A Minecraft Movie, which is a huge blockbuster hit. I saw it in a theater filled with rows of boys from preteen through late teens, all of whom applauded at the end. I didn’t applaud at the end, because the […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/a-minecraft-movie-film-review/

2025-04-07 15:01:56

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There now exists a small cottage industry designed to expose a vast, seemingly intractable form of gender inequality embedded, we’re told, in nearly every heterosexual relationship: the unequal division of household labor. Women, according to author and entrepreneur Eve Rodsky, are still “shouldering 2/3 or more of the unpaid domestic work and childcare for their […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/clocking-out-of-the-second-shift/

2025-04-07 14:08:26

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This is the moment of the conservative crack-up I’ve been waiting for. It’s going to sound small, but it’s the wedge of a wider fissure. A legal nonprofit just filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s declaration of tariffs on China, claiming that the emergency authority he’s invoked gives him no such authority to impose these tariffs. […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-tariffs-gop-lawsuit-congress/

2025-04-06 12:36:33

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Spain’s broad-left government is five years old — and has achieved some real successes for working-class people. Headed by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the Partido Socialista (PSOE) and his deputy Yolanda Díaz of left-wing alliance Sumar, it is now in its second term in office, defying most pundits’ predictions to win reelection in July […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/yolanda-diaz-sumar-palestine-spain/

2025-04-05 14:38:00

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For the past three years, the US military has suffered through its worst recruiting crisis since the end of the draft in 1973. The Army Reserve has not met its annual quota of new recruits for nearly ten years. In fiscal year 2023, the Navy and Air Force failed to meet their recruiting goals — […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/us-military-recruitment-high-schools/

2025-04-05 13:08:30

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On the night of July 1, 2018, Mexico City’s main square, Zócalo, filled with people ready to celebrate the results of the presidential election. Among the ebullient throng — and despite the fact that AMLO’s challengers had already conceded following a preliminary announcement by the National Electoral Institute at 8 p.m. — were a number […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/amlo-mexico-workers-social-programs/

2025-04-04 14:13:57

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It’s clear that Americans don’t like oligarchs. When the broad left is campaigning against oligarchy and oligarchs, we are on solid ground. Politico reported Wednesday that Donald Trump has told members of his inner circle that Elon Musk will soon step down from his White House duties. The news came just after Republicans lost — […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/stop-the-oligarchs-trump-billionaires/

2025-04-02 16:35:47

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Nonprofit hospital chains are buying up billions of dollars’ worth of real estate around the country, milking them for income while using their charity status to avoid paying property taxes that fund schools, emergency departments, and other community services. Using their taxpayer-subsidized fortunes, some hospitals are trying to influence local elections in which their profits could be at […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/hospitals-real-estate-tax-exempt/

2025-04-01 19:29:41

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Looking back at the films of Cuban director Tomás “Titón” Gutiérrez Alea almost thirty years after his death, the claim can be made that he occupies a unique position for a deeply political filmmaker in a country of political filmmakers, during the heyday of a movement of political filmmaking across the continent — revolutionary, Marxist, […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/tomas-gutierrez-alea-film-cuba/

2025-03-31 13:13:30

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Imagine two scales. The first one is a timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with its war crimes, destruction, and lives lost. The second scale is that of climate change, as measured and analyzed by climate scientists around the world. This includes, of course, Ukrainian and Russian climatologists. It’s now three years since Russia’s […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/climate-crisis-war-ukraine-russia/

2025-03-30 14:29:01

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Colombian president Gustavo Petro intends to stop exporting fossil fuels to the global market. The country’s first left-wing government has prioritized the interests of local workers and indigenous communities in its vision for a socially just ecological transformation. The government is demanding a debt swap from rich industrialized countries like Germany, which imports Colombian energy […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/colombia-petro-green-transition-debt/

2025-03-29 17:50:53

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I signed my first union card my first week of graduate school. It was August 2013, and I was about to start the PhD program in history at Yale. When I joined the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO) (now Local 33–UNITE HERE), graduate workers had been organizing at Yale for nearly three decades. Over […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/illinois-state-university-faculty-strike/

2025-03-29 12:33:50

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Jonathan Bowden, the British far-right writer and activist, was like a figure from a Roberto Bolaño novel. The author of several dozen works of self-published avant-garde fiction that even his fiercest defenders describe as almost entirely unreadable, and the producer and writer of several strange and extremely low-budget horror and fantasy films, Bowden spent decades […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/jonathan-bowden-british-alt-right/

2025-03-28 21:40:33

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President Donald Trump has taken significant steps to limit union rights for many federal workers through a new executive order. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced Thursday that Trump’s order instructs numerous government agencies to terminate their collective bargaining agreements and cease union negotiations, potentially stripping hundreds of thousands of federal employees of union […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-federal-workers-union-collective-bargaining-executive-order/

2025-03-28 15:57:53

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There’s no way a project as utterly cynical and misbegotten as the live-action remake of Walt Disney’s landmark 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs could turn out well. It must’ve been obvious that a contemporary remake would be anything but audience-friendly, and indeed there have been a few failed attempts by screenwriters […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/zegler-snow-white-film-review/

2025-03-27 15:50:24

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When copies of an unknown newspaper began appearing in the mailboxes of North Dakota residents in October 2024, sharp-eyed readers noticed something unusual. The Central ND News bore the tagline “Real data. Real value. Real news.” But the paper seemed to have an unreal sense of time. Instead of covering current news, Central ND News […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/pink-slime-journalism-greenpeace-big-oil/

2025-03-26 21:11:27

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One story and one story only is dominating American media attention this week: President Donald Trump’s national security team accidentally adding Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat in which they planned the recent air strikes on the Houthis, who govern Yemen. It’s easy to see why. This is a scandal that […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/yemen-scandal-jeffrey-goldberg-group-chat/

2025-03-26 16:47:22

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Presently tied up in Senate confirmation hearings, Mehmet Cengiz Oz, the Oprah Winfrey–certified wellness advocate known as “Dr Oz,” might soon become director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). If confirmed, the daytime TV doctor has agreed to sell his roughly $600,000 in UnitedHealthcare stock, along with an array of medical industry holdings in […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/dr-oz-medicare-advantage-insurance/

2025-03-25 15:02:51

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The idea of progress has been central to the Left since its inception. From the French Revolution on, the task was nothing less than the struggle to free humanity from the bonds of necessity. But today faith in progress has been severely diminished. While we have made incredible productive and technological leaps, the benefits have […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/our-spring-issue-progress-is-here/

2025-03-24 18:56:39

2025-03-24 18:53:50

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In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, dozens of cell phone towers were torched around the world in what looked like a series of offerings to an angry god. But the arsonists themselves would tell you the threat is entirely man-made, half in your pocket and half in the air: cell phones with 5G […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/waves-of-the-future/

2025-03-24 18:50:30

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Donald Trump is trying to shock and awe the workers’ movement into submission. This became immediately clear with the January firing of pro-union National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) officials, including General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and board member Gwynne Wilcox. The latter move is illegal, since Wilcox’s congressionally mandated term does not end until August 2028. […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/stopping-donald-trumps-anti-union-offensive/

2025-03-24 18:50:30

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2025-03-24 18:47:21

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Imagine that someone you love read Steven Pinker’s 2018 book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. They were dumbstruck by the evidence: consistently, across domains, across several hundred years, life has improved. The average human is living a longer, healthier, safer, and happier life than ever before. This person knows that […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/pinkers-progress/

2025-03-24 18:44:41

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The detention of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor and the opposition’s leading contender for the 2028 presidential elections, marks a turning point in Turkey’s descent into full autocracy. Although the country formally transitioned to a one-man regime in 2017 that entirely abolished the separation of powers and rendered parliament functionally irrelevant, elections have continued to function […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/turkey-erdogan-imamoglu-imprisonment-authoritarianism/

2025-03-24 18:35:21

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In the lead-up to his inauguration, President Donald Trump identified a surprising priority: Greenland. Trump wants to purchase the island, which is an “autonomous” province of Denmark; take control of the Panama Canal; and annex Canada as part of his plan to make America great again. Detractors have called Trump crazy and deranged. But his […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/greenland-is-not-for-sale/

2025-03-24 18:05:50

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Timothy Leary became an apostle of psychedelia not by promising a good time but by preaching a new road to socialism — not a revolutionary or evolutionary one but a pharmacological one. For Leary, “The cause of social conflict is usually neurological. The cure is biochemical.” In the late 1960s, belief in the socially progressive effects of […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/turn-on-tune-in-cash-out/

2025-03-24 17:11:40

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In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote that “the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” Donald Trump isn’t trying too hard to prove them wrong. Despite running his third presidential campaign as a populist, Trump has staffed his administration with the richest of […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/a-strange-sort-of-populism/

2025-03-24 15:38:31

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has never faced a revolt like this before. The broad left has never pulled its punches when it comes to the eight-term senator, suspicious of his Wall Street ties and unhappy with willingness to strike deals with Donald Trump. But it’s not the Left that Schumer has to worry about these […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/democratic-party-collapse-chuck-schumer/

2025-03-22 18:02:27

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Fueled by Donald Trump’s billionaire cabinet and the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) anti-government crusade, privatizers are on the prowl. The first month of Trump 2.0 has been a bonanza of unabashed scamming and self-dealing by the country’s wealthy elite. The administration has sent a clear signal to profiteers: now’s your chance to get in […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/wells-fargo-usps-privatization-trump/

2025-03-21 13:38:16

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France Insoumise has made international headlines for almost a decade, as the leading force on the country’s left. Until its breakthrough in 2022’s parliamentary elections, that success rested largely on the shoulders of leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon. While he has failed to win the presidency, he can be credited with crystallizing most left-wing electors around a […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/france-insoumise-roubaix-working-class/

2025-03-20 14:58:19

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There’s a wonderful new Criterion Channel series on French poetic realism, a short-lived but intense film movement of the 1930s that is extraordinarily timely right now. A bleak and brooding yet beautifully poignant film genre and a clear forerunner of film noir, poetic realism emerged at a moment of political crisis in France, during the […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/french-poetic-realism-political-film/

2025-03-20 14:48:09

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My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law. Who has the right […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/khalil-letter-detention-gaza-rights/

2025-03-20 12:53:30

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The recent detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, is troubling for many reasons. Khalil, a green card holder, has not been charged with any crime. The case against him seems to rest entirely on his political speech criticizing Israel. His arrest followed a […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-deportations-red-scare-khalil/

2025-03-19 16:36:39

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There are nearly half a million private citizens in Colombia — more than all the country’s soldiers and police officers combined — who legally carry weapons and are licensed to kill. The armed men and women who guard the entrance to gated condominiums and luxury malls, who drop the children of the wealthy and powerful […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/colombia-private-security-companies-global/

2025-03-19 12:58:09

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Steven Soderbergh’s spy film Black Bag, currently in theaters, has come out just a few months after his ghost film Presence, making one wonder when the director actually sleeps. Black Bag is by far the bigger hit with the critics though, getting glowing reviews from all over even as it tanks badly at the box-office. […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/black-bag-film-review-soderbergh/

2025-03-16 17:18:40

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The Irish Northern Aid Committee — Noraid, as it was generally known — was accused of involvement in various activities to support the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Its alleged offences included purchasing M-60 rifles, paying for ships to cross the Atlantic with weapons cargo, and even robbing a Brink’s armored car of more than $7 […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/noraid-troubles-ira-irish-americans/

2025-03-16 14:35:50

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Why was the winner of the world’s most prestigious prize for board game makers banned immediately after the ceremony by the very organization that awarded him? Palestine. When Daybreak won the Spiel des Jahres (SdJ, or “Game of the Year”) for the best “expert” board game, it affirmed what many reviewers and players knew: the […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/board-games-palestine-daybreak-pandemic/

2025-03-16 13:08:41

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In 1975, over thirty women cleaners at Belgium’s newly created Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL) went on a three-week strike, “fired” their boss, and decided to launch a self-managed cooperative instead. Their experiment in radical economic democracy — which they named “Le Balai Libéré” (the Liberated Broom) — allowed them to triple their salaries, grow […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/liberated-broom-documentary-cleaners-belgium/

2025-03-14 18:19:37

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On March 8, International Working Women’s Day, the town square in Chiatura, Georgia, was filled with residents. Young girls handed out violets to the women, a traditional gesture of celebration. The crowd gathered, waiting for the loudspeakers to power up on a makeshift stage made from wooden boxes. A protest had been growing for days […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/georgia-manganese-mining-chiatura-neoliberalism/

2025-03-13 17:49:29

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Does the public have a right to know who exactly is paying to lobby judges to deliver favorable rulings? A committee in charge of federal judiciary rules recently said yes, but some of the most powerful corporate and conservative forces in Washington are now saying hell no — and trying to keep the information secret. […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/lobbyists-amicus-briefs-disclosure-scotus/

2025-03-13 13:27:12

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Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was one of the most visible leaders of the student protests last year against Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. He has a green card, and he’s married to a US citizen who’s eight weeks pregnant. Over the weekend, he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and spirited to a […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/mahmoud-khalil-arrest-free-speech/

2025-03-12 20:17:01

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Mahmoud Khalil is a law-abiding permanent resident of the US, but the Trump administration is prosecuting him for his political opinions using a law that was originally aimed at Communists. The news, broken today by the Washington Post, transforms what was until now a story about free speech and advocacy for Palestine into a much broader […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/mahmoud-deportation-anti-communism-ina/

2025-03-12 16:08:01

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In an America where health care costs bankrupt families, where housing costs consume half of many workers’ incomes, and where politicians disingenuously maintain that paid family leave is beyond our capacity as the wealthiest nation in world history, we clearly need a more ambitious policy vision. Likewise, at a specific juncture when many voters who […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/america-problems-health-housing-education/

2025-03-12 15:16:41

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Nobody could be sadder than I am to report that Mickey 17 is a disappointment. I’ve been waiting eagerly for many months to see this latest effort by writer-director Bong Joon-ho (Parasite, Snowpiercer, The Host). I raced out to see it as soon as it opened in theaters, hitting one of its first shows at […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bong-mickey-17-film-review/

2025-03-11 14:56:39

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There is nothing more dangerous to the dominant status quo than solidarity. Yet solidarity appears to be almost impossible to conceive in progressive circles today. According to an often-repeated adage sometimes attributed to Che Guevara, “When the American left is asked to form a firing squad, it gets into a circle.” Yet while unity and […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/labor-christianity-collective-action-solidarity/

2025-03-10 18:51:58

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Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump told Congress, “I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.” Not even a week later, his administration has arrested a permanent resident, summarily revoked his green card, and is getting ready to deport him — all because they don’t like his constitutionally protected speech. The […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-free-speech-khalil-deportation/

2025-03-09 15:20:48

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In his address to Congress on Tuesday night, Donald Trump bragged that he’d “stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.” Seemingly amazed by his accomplishment, he repeated, “It’s back.” In reality, Trump has already been more brazenly hostile to free speech norms than any other recent president. He’s blustered about taking […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-columbia-free-speech-palestine/

2025-03-08 16:51:26

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“The North Star is the athlete. Every decision we make has to be built for them.” These are the words of Alex Bazzell, president of Unrivaled, a new player-owned women’s basketball league founded by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier. The objective of the league is to provide increased domestic opportunity for professional basketball […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/wnba-union-basketball-clark-reese/

2025-03-07 18:28:15

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Among voters experiencing buyer’s remorse are more than a few military veterans who chose Donald Trump over Kamala Harris by a margin of 65 to 34 percent, according to some exit polls. Their shock and dismay surfaced in Washington, DC, this month during the legislative conference of the reliably conservative and hawkish Veterans of Foreign […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/veterans-trump-federal-government-cuts/

2025-03-07 15:41:25

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In late January, civil rights activist Al Sharpton led one hundred members of his National Action Network in a “buy-in” at a Costco store. Their aim was to demonstrate support for the corporation’s continuation of its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, which had come under broad attack by the incoming Trump administration. It was […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/black-workers-public-dei-capitalism/

2025-03-07 14:08:14

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Less than a fortnight after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President J. D. Vance read Europe the riot act at the Munich Security Conference in mid-February, Donald Trump followed up with a performance that would not have been out of place on an episode of The Apprentice. In front of cameras, America’s president […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/trump-europe-dependence-military-energy/

2025-03-05 21:48:11

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On February 13, the Australian government’s peak arts body, Creative Australia, rescinded an invitation to artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The board justified its “unanimous” decision in a statement saying “the selection [of Sabsabi] poses an unacceptable risk to public support for Australia’s artistic community.” […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/australia-venice-censorship-palestine-sabsabi/

2025-03-05 18:32:21

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When a private equity giant bought California-based grocery chain Cardenas Markets in 2022, grocery workers like Maria Vargas saw their hours slashed. “I can’t cover my expenses anymore,” said Vargas, who, like almost a third of all renters in the country, spends more than half her paycheck on rent. When Vargas asked her employer for more hours or […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/private-equity-affordable-housing-mortgages/

2025-02-28 17:07:05

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While millions of Americans are struggling with a growing consumer debt crisis and surviving paycheck to paycheck, the wealthy are living their best lives — and increasingly so. This stark economic divide is no accident; it is the product of a rentier economy built on asset inflation and decades of failed trickle-down policies. It’s also […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/trump-tariffs-inequality-assets-consumption/

2025-02-25 14:33:24

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These days, when people find out I cohost a podcast covering the social phenomenon known as QAnon, they invariably ask, “Is that still going on?” QAnon is a conspiracy theory movement positing that Donald Trump is waging a secret war against a cabal of satanic pedophiles embedded in the United States government. Adherents believe that, […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/qanon-legacy-conspiracy-trump-patel/

2025-02-24 21:38:43

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It seems no federal agency is safe from Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — not even DOGE itself. Two Fridays ago, roughly fifty people were fired from the department, which used to be known as the US Digital Service (USDS) and was, prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration, responsible for working on […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/federal-workers-doge-kamens-va/

2025-02-23 18:40:35

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Last Friday, Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, posted a link on X/Twitter to promote $Libra, a new cryptocurrency that, in his words, would “promote economic growth in Argentina and fund small business and entrepreneurship in Argentina.” The currency quickly rose in value, receiving support from the international cryptosphere and his base of hardcore supporters in […]
https://jacobin.com/2025/02/milei-crypto-musk-argentina/

2025-02-22 18:32:44

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The last fifteen years have seen tremendous political upheaval in Central America. El Salvador has fallen under a repressive, authoritarian regime, while Honduras has liberated itself from one; President Daniel Ortega has increasingly isolated himself from former Sandinista allies in Nicaragua; and in Guatemala, a popular tide of outrage against an entrenched ruling class saw […]
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2025-02-21 18:54:43

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The Trump administration just paused an initiative to get airline passengers higher compensation when carriers lose their luggage or overbook them for a flight. In a regulatory filing submitted today, administration officials announced they would delay enforcement of the Joe Biden–era rule protecting passengers, named “Denied Boarding Compensation and Domestic Baggage Liability Limits,” until March. Though […]
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2025-02-21 17:23:52

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Ukraine’s history since at least since 2004 is a story of betrayal. It was betrayed by Russia in 2014 and even more so in 2022, as Moscow trampled on the 1994 Budapest Memorandum that had guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity. But Ukraine has also been betrayed by its supposed allies in the West. The narrative of […]
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2025-02-19 15:21:21

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Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countries like France and Japan dared to make film into a powerful weapon in the fight against fascism, weaving fiction into nonfiction and surrealism with neorealism to rupture everyday ways of being, seeing, […]
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