Jacobin

As US foreign policy grows more belligerent than ever, Americans are getting less and less information about the rest of the world.

A modest proposal.

General Douglas MacArthur was determined that West Point graduates would uphold the most romantic definitions of honor. Instead his credo fostered a culture of duplicity and institutional subterfuge, leading to real-world military fiascos.

Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.

The UAE’s expanding presence in Africa pairs developmental investment with a divisive and violent geopolitical agenda.

In an era of cheap drones and pricey interceptors, the US air warfare model doesn’t add up.

K-pop has reoriented the global music landscape — often at the expense of its stars.

Behind the myth of surgical strikes lies a coalition architecture designed to ensure no single nation takes the blame when civilians die.

The Mecca Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan is a response to insecurity and waning American power in the region. The question is whether the new security order will produce more violence rather than less.

Washington has spent 64 years trying to kill Cuba’s economy. The numbers say it worked — and that Moscow’s subsidies only postponed the reckoning.

Burkina Faso’s military leader has styled himself as the political heir to Thomas Sankara. However, the substance of Traoré’s record since taking power in 2022 is much less ambitious than Sankara’s agenda as president in the 1980s.

Tyson abruptly shut down its plant in Joslin, Illinois, last month, throwing 2,500 mostly immigrant workers out of work. Consolidation across the beef and grocery industries may be driving a wave of meatpacking job losses.

Left-wing dismissals and establishment celebrations both have Gloria Steinem wrong.

Artificial intelligence poses major threats, from extreme labor market disruption to security dangers. Managing those risks will mean taking on the concentrated power of the AI industry.

Francis Fukuyama tells Jacobin that decades of suspicion of the state, from both the Left and the Right, helped produce America’s current crisis.

The US left has had some success winning primaries in Democrat-held constituencies. But this can’t be a strategy for national success and the implementation of New Deal–style programs. For that, we’ll need a supermajority.