Jacobin

Donald Trump and the Republicans want you to be terrified of socialists. But they really don’t want to talk about our core economic policies, because the moment you spell those policies out, they sound pretty good.

At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. As higher education increasingly conforms to corporate logic, its most durable product becomes a student with a proven capacity for overwork.

Art critic, novelist, Marxist, lover, exile, storyteller: John Berger resisted every easy definition. His new biography embraces the contradictions he left behind.

The decline of the much-touted billionaires’ Giving Pledge.

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.