Over and over and over, I read, meet, or talk to people who are shocked by Donald Trumpās relentless trolling, his thoroughly…
Israelās genocide in Gaza has put international concerns front and center for the US left today.Ā JacobinĀ spoke with three leading internationalist organizers about…
This premise is simply false, and it leads us into hopeful delusions about inevitable progress. We must rid ourselves of these pollyannaish…
In a second Trump term basic legal structures will be pulverized and a fundamentally lawless regime will set about maintaining itself in power, while pretending to democratic norms
For too long, progressive intellectuals have mocked conservatives as āknow-nothingsā for their insistence that the U.S. is immune to history and canāt…
Itās a fine irony that after years of allegations that President Obama was a covert āsocialist,ā we now have the genuine article
Internationalism is not a future goal, or utopian dream, it is an active practice. We must begin where we are, and make a new road by walking it
Despite the May 20 ruling by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court, which overturned the original verdict on procedural grounds, the May 10 conviction of…
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