When the Indians Defeat the Cowboys
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/standing-rock-indigenous-american-progress
How indigenous people and the Left can continue to win in the wake of Standing Rock.
When the Indians Defeat the Cowboys
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/standing-rock-indigenous-american-progress
How indigenous people and the Left can continue to win in the wake of Standing Rock.
The Case for Haitian Reparations
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/haiti-reparations-france-slavery-colonialism-debt
Haitians are asking the French government to return some of what was stolen.
Free Chelsea Manning Now
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/chelsea-manning-clemency-obama-leaks-whistleblower-iraq-afghanistan-wiki
President Obama must act now and grant clemency to Chelsea Manning.
Trump TV
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/trump-press-conference-fake-news-russia-conspiracies
The mainstream media is playing much the same game as the fake news sites, but they’re losing.
Who Put Trump in the White House?
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/trump-election-democrats-gop-clinton-whites-workers-rust-belt
The Democratic Party has been collapsing for years, but no one noticed before Trump came along.
When Frederick Douglass Met John Brown
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/harpers-ferry-john-brown-frederick-douglass
What role did Frederick Douglass play in John Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid?
Corbyn, the Unlikely Populist
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/corbyn-populism-labour-brexit-tories-immigration
Jeremy Corbyn could use a dose of populist fire. But if that means playing the Right’s game, it will be as unconvincing as it is unprincipled.
Against Meryl Streep
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/meryl-streep-speech-trump-golden-globes
Meryl Streep’s speechifying at the Golden Globes was the worst thing to happen since Trump’s election.
Syria and the Left
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/syria-war-crisis-refugees-assad-dictatorship-arab-spring-intervention-ru
Behind the humanitarian disaster of the Syrian civil war is a political crisis the Left urgently needs to understand.
The Slow Collapse of Imperial Republics
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/trump-russia-election-legitimacy-imperial-power
Disputes over Trump’s election are just the latest episodes in the slow erosion of trust in the legitimacy of American institutions.
Charlie Hebdo: The Poverty of Satire
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/charlie-hebdo-satire-islamophobia-laicite-terrorism-free-speech
Two years after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, we consider the origin and trajectory of the publication.
Megyn Kelly Is Still Terrible
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/megyn-kelly-donald-trump-racist-feminist-fox-news-nbc
Megyn Kelly’s handful of admirable stances at Fox don’t make up for years of peddling reactionary, racist nonsense.
Safety Pins and Swastikas
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/safety-pin-box-richard-spencer-neo-nazis-alt-right-identity-politics
The frameworks of liberal identity politics and “alt-right” white nationalism are proving curiously compatible.
When Abstention Is Progress
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/israel-settlements-un-obama-netanyahu-trump-palestine
The recent UN vote on Israeli settlements is belated and toothless, but it gives a boost to anti-occupation activists.
A Constitutional Revolution
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/constitution-trump-democracy-electoral-college-senate
The Constitution has strangled American democracy for long enough. We need a constituent assembly.
The Ghost of Japanese Internment
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/trump-muslim-registry-japanese-internment-wwii-concentration-camps
Trump’s calls for a Muslim registry have reignited memories of the World War II–era incarceration of Japanese Americans.
What Is Aleppo?
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/gary-johnson-aleppo-meritocracy-intelligence-politics
The response to Gary Johnson’s gaffe captured all the hubris and faux expertise of 2016.
Remember the Massacre at Wounded Knee
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/wounded-knee-massacre-lakota-us-army
On this day in 1890, the US Army murdered as many as 300 Native American men, women, and children.
The Special Ed Students Deserve
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/chicago-schools-special-ed-ctu
Free-market education reform has hit special-needs students especially hard.
Beyond Bread and Butter
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/university-manitoba-strike-union-umfa-bargaining
The University of Manitoba strike showed that worker power isn’t all about money — it’s also about collective self-governance.
With Friends Like Bannon
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/trump-zionism-israel-palestine-zoa-free-speech-sjp-activism
Trump’s administration will embolden the Right to harass, suppress, and silence any criticism of Israel.
Why Christmas Matters
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/christmas-culture-wars-revolutionary-gospel-left
Christmas at its best celebrates the entrance in the world of one who would bring good news to the poor and freedom for the prisoner.
The Class Struggle in the North Pole
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/the-class-struggle-in-the-north-pole
What’s behind Santa’s bloody rise? Three leading elven #Labor activists offer a class analysis of the North Pole “gift economy.”
Conservatives Against Incarceration ?
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/carceral-state-mass-incarceration-conservatives-koch-trump
Fiscal conservatives were never going to bring down the carceral state. A broader fight against social inequality is needed.
The Trump Way
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/donald-trump-workers-infrastructure-immigrants-jobs
Trump’s infrastructure and jobs proposals might ruffle some establishment feathers, but he’ll still be terrible for workers.