As the list of Israeli atrocities in Gaza has grown, so too has the international movement for a cease-fire and Palestinian liberation. In response, the pro-Israel establishment has attempted to ...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/state-library-victoria-firing-israel-palestine/
Joe Lieberman’s body wasn’t even cold when the predictable avalanche of tributes to his “conscience” and “doggedly independent” streak cascaded across the media. This is certainly one...
Looking out of the plane window at night, one can see the dark Kyzylkum desert, with occasional lights recognized by the satellite navigation as Komektaev, Lenino, and Kyzylorda. From up here, th...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/kyrgyzstan-bishkek-interhelpo-co-operative-soviet-union-utopia/
The wall bleeds rust. As I put my palm on the vast stretch of metal bisecting the Sonoran Desert, the wall seems to pulsate as it stretches into the horizon, painted black in parts to make it ext...
In just a few weeks since its debut, FX’s miniseries Shōgun has thrilled its audience and become the number one streamed show in America. Based on the novel by James Clavell, Shōgun tells the...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/shogun-colonization-japan-tv-series/
I had the damnedest thing happened to me last night — I watched the new movie version of Road House on Amazon Prime, and I enjoyed it. I’d been so sure of my plan to see it, hate it, and slam...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/road-house-gyllenhaal-film-review/
“Debt is to capitalism what hell is to Christianity: unpleasant, and essential.” Speaking in his new documentary series In the Eye of the Storm, Yanis Varoufakis explains how elites have used...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/greece-austerity-economy-far-right/
In recent years, those eager to dismiss the issues raised by the Me Too movement have fixated on the phenomenon’s elite origins. After all, the outcry started with a 2017 New York Times investi...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/me-too-rikers-sexual-abuse-lawsuits-eric-adams/
In 2018, the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America elected Julia Salazar to the New York State Senate. Since then, NYC-DSA has elected seven more socialists to the state l...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/eon-huntley-brooklyn-new-york-state-assembly-dsa-zinerman/
The Association of International Comedy Educators (AICE) is the union representing faculty, music directors, and facilitators at the Second City, the famous improvisational-comedy enterprise, in ...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/second-city-chicago-improv-comedy-union-strike-contract/
It’s been roughly a year since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank — the second-, third-, and fourth-largest bank failures by assets in US histo...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/jerome-powell-federal-reserve-banking/
The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety ...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/baltimore-bridge-crash-maersk-whistleblowers/
Labor studies scholar Dorothy Sue Cobble challenges many of the typical ways in which the history of the Congress of Industrial Organizations is typically understood. She specifically pushes back...
However much the British government plays fast and loose with our future by treating climate change as a political football, there is a reality it can’t deny: climate action is necessary. That�...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/energy-charter-treaty-climate-change/
In 1956, a utopia-minded politician predicted a future in which Americans could work less and the forty-hour week would become a thing of the past. “These are not dreams or idle boasts,” decl...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/national-review-32-hour-workweek-sanders/
Tim Wu has a piece in the New York Times that is perfectly designed to irk me. In it, he argues that the Biden administration has broken from center-left orthodoxy by eschewing tax-and-transfe...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/tim-wu-biden-predistribution-welfare-state-bbb-antitrust/
Last week, Georgia lawmakers passed legislation aimed at making it harder for workers to unionize. SB 362, championed by Republican governor Brian Kemp, bars companies from receiving economic inc...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/georgia-brian-kemp-sb362-unionization/
This year’s budget season in New York State, running through and likely past the coming April 1 deadline, is taking on a familiar contour to years’ past: a devastating housing crisis rages, c...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/new-york-mitchell-lama-co-ops-social-housing/
Earlier this month, a three-judge panel of the New Orleans–based US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit signaled it will affirm a lower-court ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act (AC...
https://jacobin.com/2024/03/preventive-health-court-appeals-insurance/
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room of the 2024 US presidential election: Gaza. There are, of course, overwhelming ethical reasons for President Biden to reconsider and reset his administ...