Articles from jacobin.com

Articles from jacobin.com

It's Kind of Amazing That Barbie Manages to Be as Good as It Is | With a clever opening sequence and an excellent cast, Barbie manages to overcome cumbersome plotting and feminist pieties to provide a delightful spectacle of funny moments that add up to something pretty good. (jacobin.com)
2023-7-25

Hollywood Is on Strike Against High-Tech Exploitation (jacobin.com)
2023-7-25

Republicans Are Trying to Block Joe Biden From Declaring a Climate Emergency | Amid extreme heat and wildfires, Biden could free up disaster relief funds and slash carbon emissions by declaring a climate emergency. But last month GOP lawmakers introduced a bill to prevent him from doing so. (jacobin.com)
2023-7-22 Climate Republican

Why We Need Rent Control | Across the United States, we're in the middle of a brutal housing crisis. We need rent control to get us out of it. (jacobin.com)
2023-7-21 Real Estate

It's Time to Strengthen the BDS Movement | Israel's rulers use culture as a propaganda tool while waging war on the cultural life of Palestinian society. The best way to challenge the normalization of Israeli apartheid on every front is through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. (jacobin.com)
2023-7-21 Israel

Yes, Israel Is an Apartheid State. That Means It's a Racist One, Too. | In yet another reality-denying ritual of fealty to the pro-Israel lobby, members of Congress absurdly voted to say Israel was neither an apartheid state nor racist. Only a few progressives stood firm in opposing the measure. (jacobin.com)
2023-7-21 Israel Racism

Republican Chief Justice Roberts Wants Absolute Power in the Supreme Court — If It's Conservative | In the early 1980s, Roberts, then a young lawyer, worked with the Reagan administration to strip power from a liberal judiciary. Today he has reversed course to shield the Court's absolute power. (jacobin.com)
2023-7-18 Republican

The Tragic Failure of the Soviet Experiment Doesn't Mean We Should Reject Socialism | Like many socialists around the world, G. A. Cohen invested the Soviet Union with his hopes for a more just and equal society. In time, he grew disillusioned with the USSR — but he never stopped fighting (jacobin.com)
2023-7-18

I Fell Down the Alt-Right Rabbit Hole. Eventually, I Climbed My Way Out. | At a time of personal confusion and pain in my life, Jordan Peterson and the alt right gave me direction and purpose. I eventually realized that purpose was spreading a cruel, antisocial worldview (jacobin.com)
2023-7-18

Dockworkers in Canada Have Shut Down the Country's Critical West Coast Ports (jacobin.com)
2023-7-13 Canada

The Child Labor of Early Capitalism Is Making a Big Comeback in the US (jacobin.com)
2023-7-11

In New York State, Socialists Have Won a Landmark Victory for Green Jobs and Clean Public Power (jacobin.com)
2023-7-10 New York

Rich Countries Are Exporting Climate Breakdown to the Global South (jacobin.com)
2023-7-7 Climate

Biden Is Wrong. The Supreme Court Is Already “Politicized.” (jacobin.com)
2023-7-3

Samuel Alito Could Go Up to Bat for His Billionaire Friend Again (jacobin.com)
2023-6-26

For the Love of God, Stop Saying Trump Was an Antiwar President (jacobin.com)
2023-6-21 Trump

1,400 Pennsylvania Locomotive Manufacturing Workers Are on the Verge of a Strike (jacobin.com)
2023-6-15 Manufacturing

Toronto Tenants Are Uniting in a Mass Rent Strike (jacobin.com)
2023-6-13 Toronto

Populist? RFK, Jr Doesn't Even Support Medicare for All. (jacobin.com)
2023-6-11 Medicare

UPS Teamsters Are Ready to Strike (jacobin.com)
2023-6-8

Meta Is Trying, and Failing, to Crush Unions in Kenya (jacobin.com)
2023-6-4

Pennsylvania Could Become the First State to Pass Universal Parental Leave (jacobin.com)
2023-6-4

The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “Eff You” to Poor People (jacobin.com)
2023-6-2

Salting Wouldn't Be Necessary If Employers Didn't Union Bust | The US workplace is a private dictatorship where bosses exercise extraordinary power and systematically union bust. “Salting,” or getting a job to organize a workplace, is a completely justifiable response to this workplace despotism (jacobin.com)
2023-5-24

American Capitalism Has Produced Its Most Remarkable Innovation Yet: Breadlines (jacobin.com)
2023-5-23 U.S.

The Fight for Affordable Insulin Reveals the Moral Bankruptcy of For-Profit Health Care (jacobin.com)
2023-5-22

Ron DeSantis Is Giving Away Florida Pension Money to Wall Street Donors (jacobin.com)
2023-5-18 Wall Street

JPMorgan Chase Is the Big Winner From First Republic Bank's Failure (jacobin.com)
2023-5-15 JPMorgan

We Need an Economic Bill of Rights: Political rights are not enough. Economic rights — the right to home, food, health care, a union, and a safe and stable planet — should be our rallying cry for a just country and world. (jacobin.com)
2023-5-15

Big Tech Is Taking Cues From Big Tobacco's Playbook (jacobin.com)
2023-5-11

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