Zola Carr is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, working on a dissertation on the development of experimental brain implants for psychiatric disorder.
From street protests to the vote uncommitted movement to Aaron Bushnell’s tragic self-immolation, millions of Americans have been voicing outrage over Israel’s assault on Gaza. Government unresponsiveness threatens to worsen our epidemic of political despair.
Professional wrestling remains tremendously popular media today because it encapsulates our collective obsession with justice. The recent WWE-UFC merger shows that the story of American professional wrestling is also one of ruthless profit maximization.
Even as the Biden administration vetoes Palestinian statehood, several European states are moving toward full recognition. Their dissent is a welcome crack in the West’s pro-Israel line — but they should back it up with sanctions to punish Israeli apartheid.
Special Agent Roy Martin Mitchell was recognized within the FBI for his skill in developing informants in “the racial field.” Now we know the extent of Mitchell’s activities — including how they aided the killing of the Black Panther Party’s Fred Hampton.
The corporate pay gap is rapidly widening. A proposed law would raise taxes on companies whose CEOs make 50 times more than the median pay of their employees.
Civil War imagines a crumbling USA torn apart by militias, a crazed president, and murderous ideological rage. The problem is, director Alex Garland never tells us anything about those ideologies. Because then he might be seen as “taking a side.”
The British vote to leave the European Union is often cited as a far-right breakthrough. But as anti-immigration parties surge across the EU, Europe’s own claim to represent internationalist values looks increasingly in doubt.
Episode 2 of Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO explores the institutional formation of the CIO and the key personalities who would become the organization’s early leaders, John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman.
Facing international pressure, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has embraced Western economic policy orthodoxy. This has meant giving up the clientelistic redistribution that has helped Erdoğan’s party maintain popularity amid severe economic crisis.
The uptick in high-profile strikes in recent years has been heartening. But sustaining and expanding the gains won by that militancy will require careful strategizing and deep political engagement that starts with but goes beyond the shop floor.
There is no ambiguity about the fact that Joe Biden’s administration is in flagrant violation of both international and domestic law for its support of Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.
Striking Long Beach Post journalists say they are fighting against layoffs, corporate media consolidation, and union-busting labor law violations.
In response to the threat of a second Donald Trump presidency, Democrats are dusting off apocalyptic rhetoric of looming fascism and total democratic collapse. It’s a self-soothing deflection of responsibility more than anything else.
Jacobin sat down with legendary director Ken Loach at the age of 87 to talk about his latest and final film, The Old Oak; the influence of the Czech New Wave on his movies; and why Hollywood filmmaking is antithetical to the working-class experience.
For six months, Israel has been deliberately killing civilians in Gaza and destroying infrastructure to make the area uninhabitable. Israeli academic Lee Mordechai summarizes the horrific results of an operation that is wholly immoral and criminal.
Teaming up with Big Pharma and Wall Street, universities are profiting by fighting government efforts to curtail soaring drug prices. A case in point: UCLA has reaped more than a billion dollars from its development of Xtandi, a lifesaving cancer drug.
Yanis Varoufakis was scheduled to deliver a video message to a Palestine conference in Berlin on Friday — but police shut down the event. Varoufakis tells Jacobin how the Germans silenced him and why they’ve now banned him from entering the country.
Eric Adams has had so many scandals and strange public declarations since he took office that it’s easy to lose track of them. To make sure you keep them straight, we’ve rounded up ten of the New York mayor’s greatest hits thus far.
Faced with the Austrian Communist Party’s recent electoral gains, many pundits have demanded that it change its name. They accuse the party of being wedded to Stalinism — but the party has a long record of wrestling with its past.
Last year, New York State legislators passed the Climate Change Superfund Act, which would require major emitters to help the state pay for the impacts of climate change. Governor Kathy Hochul has so far kept the legislation from the final state budget.