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Articles from jacobin.com

US Workers Need a Federal Paid Sick Leave Guarantee (jacobin.com)
2022-12-27

The Department of Homeland Security Is Out of Control (jacobin.com)
2022-12-23

Too often, the US labor movement has favored narrow nationalism over cross-border solidarity. But in the late 19th century, the US-based Knights of Labor preached a working-class internationalism that sought to organize workers throughout the globe. (jacobin.com)
2022-12-19 Working Class

Today's Conservative Movement Has Roots in the Capitalist Backlash Against the New Deal | During the New Deal, right-wing were furious that their authority was being challenged in society. So they started organizing. And that's the origin story of the modern conservative movement. (jacobin.com)
2022-12-18

US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the Benefits. (jacobin.com)
2022-12-14 Tax

In Just One Year, Starbucks Workers Have Won 267 Union Elections | A year ago today, Starbucks workers in Buffalo, New York, voted to unionize. Since then the campaign has exploded nationwide, with an impressive 267 Starbucks locations now unionized. (jacobin.com)
2022-12-11 New York Starbucks

The Failure of Reconstruction Is to Blame for the Weakness of American Democracy | Reactionaries did not just fear democracy, they feared the economic redistribution former slaves associated with it. (jacobin.com)
2022-12-10 U.S.

The New US Military Budget Enriches Private Contractors at the Cost of Human Well-Being (jacobin.com)
2022-12-9 Budget

Nationalize the Railroads (jacobin.com)
2022-12-9

The Free Market Can't Meet Families' Childcare Needs | American childcare workers like me are confronted every day with a basic fact: the United States has more than enough resources to provide public, high-quality childcare to everyone who needs it, yet it chooses not to. (jacobin.com)
2022-12-6 U.S.

A Record Number of Canadians Are Now Going Hungry (jacobin.com)
2022-12-5 Canada

Jeff Bezos's Charitable Giving Is Another Billionaire Scam (jacobin.com)
2022-11-24 Jeff Bezos

Joe Biden Is Finally Moving Toward Allowing Bankruptcy to Eliminate Student Debt (jacobin.com)
2022-11-19

There Is No Leftist Case for Crypto | Most of us sense cryptocurrency is a scam. But some boosters claim progressives shouldn't abandon crypto. Examine those claims closely, however, and you won't find much — perhaps because there really isn't an argument for crypto from the Left. (jacobin.com)
2022-10-23 Cryptocurrency

Bernie Is Right: Extreme Wealth Concentration Has Turned America Into an Oligarchy - A new congressional report commissioned by Bernie Sanders finds that the 1 percent now own one-third of all wealth, while the bottom half of Americans hold only 2 percent. (jacobin.com)
2022-10-21 U.S.

Jacobin: Amazon Workers Staged Walkouts at 4 Warehouses for Prime Week (jacobin.com)
2022-10-20 Amazon

We Need More Military Veterans in Congress Who Oppose the “Forever Wars” (jacobin.com)
2022-10-16

GOP Governors, High on Supply of Private Prison Money, Are Rejecting Marijuana Pardons (jacobin.com)
2022-10-12 Republican

The Rich Are the Ones Burning the Planet (jacobin.com)
2022-10-11

Take Abortion Out of the Court's Hands (jacobin.com)
2022-10-10

The Only Long-Term Solution for the Energy Crisis Is Systemic Change: The last big energy crisis in the 1970s helped trigger a drastic shift from Keynesianism to neoliberalism. Today, we need to move in the opposite direction (jacobin.com)
2022-10-9 Energy

Chandler Davis Was a Lifelong Radical and a Moral Touchstone for the Left | Chan Davis, who died last month at the age of 96, faced down McCarthyite blacklists to pursue a brilliant academic career. Davis knew how to learn from political experience, but he remained loyal to his socialist principles. (jacobin.com)
2022-10-9 Career

Before Hurricane Ian, Florida Republicans Fought Against Climate Disaster Protections (jacobin.com)
2022-10-3 Climate Republican Hurricane

We Can Reimagine Our Systems of Ownership and Control (jacobin.com)
2022-9-28

The Problem Isn't “Polarization” — It's Right-Wing Radicalization (jacobin.com)
2022-9-25

Fascist-Sympathizing Newspaper Barons Were the Blueprint for Today's Right-Wing Media (jacobin.com)
2022-9-25

Claims That Capitalism Is Eradicating Global Poverty Are Wildly Misleading (jacobin.com)
2022-9-24

Who Will Stop the Fed's Plans to Trigger a Recession? (jacobin.com)
2022-9-13

The high cost of insulin is one of the great injustices of the US health care system. But now, states like California are looking at directly manufacturing this essential medicine — a potentially massive win for both patients and left-wing politics. (jacobin.com)
2022-8-5 Manufacturing California

Recession or No Recession, This Economy Sucks (jacobin.com)
2022-8-4

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