Meagan Day is an associate editor at Jacobin. She is the coauthor of Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism.
Public broadcasting isn’t the enemy of free speech. Profit-driven media is. Trump’s attack on NPR and PBS distracts from the real path away from censorship and toward viewpoint diversity: a large, democratically controlled, publicly funded media ecosystem.
Big tech’s woke era may be over for now. But wealthy elites like Mark Zuckerberg will continue to find philanthropic giving a preferred way to control their wealth and expand their influence, no matter what causes their money goes to.
Democrats are hoping Trump will discredit himself with a recession, while the Left sometimes fantasizes about crisis destabilizing capitalism itself. But economic crises cause massive human suffering and have recently redounded more to the Right than the Left.
After stock markets plummeted in response to Donald Trump’s announcement of widespread tariffs, he suddenly announced a 90-day pause on the new policy. Capital will resist any measure that threatens profits — and that’s just what happened yesterday.
The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t bumbling through an ill-advised reform effort. It’s deliberately sabotaging federal agencies to make way for privatization.
America is witnessing a dramatic reinvestment in traditional gender roles. The way out of this situation isn’t through culture war discourse — it’s through pro-worker, gender-egalitarian social policy, like Norway’s paternity leave system.
Yesterday the Trump administration ordered 18 government agencies to terminate their collective bargaining agreements and cease union negotiations. The move could strip hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union protections.
Rural Americans need good internet and good jobs. And they were poised to get them — until Elon Musk saw an opening to grow his fortune with a plan that will provide worse internet and fewer jobs.
Poorer Americans work long hours to afford basic necessities. Richer Americans work long hours in pursuit of “the good life” that’s perpetually just beyond their grasp. All of this tedious work is a waste of our precious time and resources.
Luxury housing sits empty all over Los Angeles while average city residents displaced by the recent fires are struggling to find new homes in an incredibly tight housing market. There’s an easy solution: give the empty houses to the displaced.
This small town was envisioned as a socialist paradise. Now it’s Trump country.
Once marginal and reviled, evangelical Christians became a vital political bloc in the 1980s thanks to resolute organizing.
John Reed’s thrilling dispatches from the front lines of the Mexican Revolution could have made him a pop culture celebrity. Instead, the experience made him a committed socialist.
On Fox News, Laura Ingraham asked, “What if we just cut off the unemployment? Hunger is a pretty powerful thing.” With benefits set to expire, Joe Biden has three weeks to decide whether he agrees with her.
In 1917, impoverished Oklahoma tenant farmers were the backbone of the US’s flourishing socialist movement. That year, hundreds mobilized — armed — to march on Washington and force an end to the World War I draft.
As his fellow West German radicals began to embrace violence in the 1970s, legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder decided to celebrate another path for emancipation: class struggle in the workplace.
Under capitalism, prejudice against workers is common. But it only adds insult to a deeper, more profound injury.
The labor movement’s iconic inflatable rat has survived a pathetic judicial attempt at extermination. But though Scabby is free, unions remain hamstrung by the oppressive federal prohibition on secondary boycotts encoded in the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act.
Joe Biden publicly supports proposals to waive vaccine patents to help end the COVID-19 pandemic. But so far he appears to have no intention of spending political capital to make those proposals a reality.
Texas’s new “heartbeat bill” offers private citizens $10,000 to successfully sue organizations that help women get abortions. It’s a public subsidy for the anti-abortion movement that harms working-class women.