Jacobin

America is suffering from a complete breakdown in social life and shared conception of the common good. Some prominent liberals want to keep it that way.

Silicon Valley is increasingly embracing the narrative that the US is in an existential battle for technological dominance with China. The story is a convenient shield against efforts to rein in the tech industry’s power.

Silicon Valley has built platforms that colonize our attention, prey on children’s vulnerabilities, and damage mental health. Lawsuits that could cost Meta as much as $1.4 trillion are showing that society can use state power to fight back.

Heteropessimism holds that men and women are incapable of understanding one another, foreclosing the possibility of more equal, fulfilling relations between the genders. But romantic love may offer us a way out of a social order in which everyone loses.

There’s a big gap between how progressive messaging is received by liberal, college-educated voters and working-class voters with no college degree. But there doesn’t have to be, if the Left appeals to those working-class voters the right way.

It can be tempting for socialists to look to the House Freedom Caucus as a model for how to operate within Congress. But the story of the HFC shows that obstructionism can actually isolate a caucus instead of winning a leading role for it.

Much of the Left has been debating “Woke 1” recently. Less discussed has been the Right’s own version of wokeness, characterized by censorship, attacks on free speech, and even jailing and deporting critics.

Inspired in part by Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York City, a new crop of socialist candidates is campaigning for municipal power across Canada.

Democratic socialists have a historic opportunity to make socialism a mass politics that wins over millions. We can’t take full advantage of that opportunity without carefully calibrating our rhetoric and demands.

This summer’s water crisis in Puerto Rico is the latest example of the slow violence of the Puerto Rican debt crisis, exacerbated by patterns of remilitarization in the archipelago.

A disturbing New York magazine story on an Andrew Tate devotee’s alleged sex trafficking sheds light on Tate’s entrepreneurial core, red-pill ideology’s brutal gendered hierarchy, and how intrasexual status competition affects male domination.

Football confederations revolted against Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup. But the failure of his scheme won’t affect the bigger picture as private-equity firms gobble up football clubs in pursuit of short-term gains.

China’s university entrance exam is one of the most competitive in the world — a reflection of the cutthroat reality of the country’s labor market.

India’s civil liberties groups are largely made up of “concerned citizens” rather than the most oppressed groups in society. Their role in defending basic constitutional rights is increasingly under attack from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Soon after 9/11, world-systems theorist Immanuel Wallerstein warned that US imperial decline was inevitable. But US leaders didn’t want to hear that their glory days were in the past, and they’ve managed that decline in the worst possible way.

Karl Marx mocked utopians for writing recipes for the cookshops of the future. But at their best, utopians emphasize hope without guarantees — a position that carves a middle path between blind optimism and the resigned inertia of “realism.”

In their heyday of radicalism in the 1980s, Germany’s Greens were a pacifist, ecological voice. Now the party backs higher military spending not just as a defense strategy but as the linchpin of Germany’s economic revival.

Since the 19th century, the choice between independence and incorporation into the US has been a central issue for Puerto Rican politics. Support for the left-wing Puerto Rico Independence Party is now surging among the country’s youth.

Karl Marx’s ideal society is taken far less seriously than his critique of capitalism. But he did offer a rich account of what a better society would look like — one built around meaningful work, mutual care, and human flourishing.

Keiko Fujimori has become Peru’s president after another narrow election runoff. While in past contests she tiptoed around her father’s authoritarian record, this time she capitalized on his strongman image.