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Sworn in as mayor of New York just over one week ago, Zohran Mamdani is wasting no time beginning to govern. In…
Meagan Day
Meagan Day is an associate editor and former staff writer at Jacobin. She is the coauthor of Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism.
In early 2020, all roads in American politics led to Medicare for All. The policy demand, shorthand for a universal, tax-funded, single-payer…
“Americans are spending like never before,” boasted the Donald Trump White House in a press release on Wednesday. “Retail sales are booming — up…
One week after his presidential victory in 2024, Donald Trump promised that the United States would soon have “the cleanest air and water on…
In late June, the Atlantic ran an article titled “The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard — It’s Worse.” It posited that global fertility…
Earlier this week, the Economist asked plaintively whether Elon Musk was fixing the federal government, as promised, or destroying it. “This newspaper looked forward to…
In 1930, economist John Maynard Keynes famously predicted that technological progress and economic growth would solve the problem of material scarcity. In…
About a week after the Los Angeles wildfires began, it seemed safe to sleep without a go bag packed. The smoke had…
Commonwealth College taught and trained over 1,500 worker-activists before becoming an early casualty of American anti-communism
Instability is a permanent feature of capitalism, but the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a whole new level of volatility. Amid the turmoil, the American right is dreaming more feverishly than ever of apocalypse and heroism