Jacobin

America's political institutions were engineered to protect elite wealth and block majorities. How did we end up here? For the 250th anniversary of America, our summer issue takes aim at the US's patriotic mythology. Out now. Get yours below 👇

“Gasland” director Josh Fox’s new HBO documentary, “The Welcome Table,” argues the climate emergency is inseparable from empire, capitalism, and the fight for universal freedom of movement. jacobin.com/2026/06/film-w…

Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella eked out a marginal victory over his left-wing opponent Iván Cepeda in Colombia’s presidential race after crude election interference by the US government. The outcome is a major threat to democratic rights. jacobin.com/2026/06/colomb…

Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is often thought of as a free-market dogmatist. In reality, he was something far worse: an ideologically flexible but devoted servant of the powerful and a leading organizer of the war on US workers. jacobin.com/2026/06/obitua…

Worrying about whether AI can do your job is a blind alley, Cory Doctorow argues. The real danger is AI’s bubble: a speculative fantasy built on convincing bosses to replace workers with systems that can’t actually do what their salesmen promise. jacobin.com/2026/06/ai-bub…

Andy Burnham says he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. But even if he becomes prime minister, the Labour Party is running out of time to show it’s on the side of working-class communities. jacobin.com/2026/06/uk-bur…

June 23, 2016, has gone down as the day Britain departed from the mainstream by voting to leave the European Union. In reality, British politics was a few steps ahead of the curve, as the EU itself has become a vehicle for the anti-immigrant far right. jacobin.com/2026/06/ten-ye…

One in three people in the world may lose their homes to the climate crisis by 2070. Josh Fox’s new HBO documentary, “The Welcome Table,” argues the real disaster is a border regime built to keep them out. jacobin.com/2026/06/film-w…

The wafer-thin election victory of Abelardo de la Espriella is a disaster for Colombian democracy. In the name of “law and order,” Colombia’s new far-right president wants to return the country to its darkest days of mass killing and political terror. jacobin.com/2026/06/colomb…

Alan Greenspan’s entire career was dedicated to unshackling the American elites from any fetters on their ability to gain more wealth and power. jacobin.com/2026/06/obitua…

Cory Doctorow on the politics of AI: “As a science fiction writer, the one thing I know to be very true is that what a machine does is way less important than who the machine does it for and who the machine does it to.” jacobin.com/2026/06/ai-bub…

Many working-class voters seem ready to give Andy Burnham a hearing. But if he lets down hopes of transforming Britain’s social contract, he’ll only hasten the Labour Party’s decline. jacobin.com/2026/06/uk-bur…

Many of the positions linked to the pro-Brexit right in Britain a decade ago are now deeply entrenched at the heart of the EU itself. jacobin.com/2026/06/ten-ye…

The climate crisis is a class conflict. Josh Fox’s new HBO documentary, “The Welcome Table,” shows how ICE, CECOT, and border militarism are the front line: jacobin.com/2026/06/film-w…

Donald Trump’s public support for far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella was just one aspect of Washington’s heavy-handed interference in the Colombian presidential election, which included legal harassment of Colombians living in the US: jacobin.com/2026/06/colomb…

Longtime Fed Chair Alan Greenspan died yesterday at age 100. The true through line in his career was not free-market ideology but rather utter devotion to the interests of the ownership class: jacobin.com/2026/06/obitua…

Abolish the Senate? A socialist tried it in 1911. We should finish the job: jacobin.com/2026/06/the-so…

“You have to point out that invoking AI is a way of getting consumers to accept lower quality while blaming workers for that lower quality and letting bosses pocket the difference.” — Cory Doctorow on how to properly criticize AI 📰: jacobin.com/2026/06/ai-bub…

Two recent by-elections in northwest England saw a locally rooted social democratic insurgency rally working-class voters and defeat the far right. Labour can still stop Nigel Farage, if it learns the lessons of these campaigns: jacobin.com/2026/06/uk-bur…

“Gasland” director Josh Fox’s new HBO documentary, “The Welcome Table,” argues the climate emergency is inseparable from empire, capitalism, and the fight for universal freedom of movement. jacobin.com/2026/06/film-w…

Europe’s far-right forces have grown increasingly confident that they can achieve their goals from inside the EU. The erstwhile left-wing slogan “Remain and Reform” now sums up the thinking of Marine Le Pen, Giorgia Meloni, and their allies: jacobin.com/2026/06/ten-ye…