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Some on the Left believe that the capitalist system will not tolerate any greater interventions in its operation or redistribution of its spoils. There is no good evidence that this is true.jacobin.com/2026/03/capita…

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda.jacobin.com/2026/03/menin-…

As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeks his final term as Brazil’s president, the Left’s electoral strategy — who runs, which factions align, and how the coalition balances pragmatism with principle — is already shaping the post-Lula era of Brazilian politics.jacobin.com/2026/03/brazil…

Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.jacobin.com/2026/03/politi…

Israel is again invading Lebanon and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. With Israel determined to crush all forms of resistance, Lebanon has been dragged into a war it did nothing to start.jacobin.com/2026/03/lebano…

The late Jürgen Habermas saw Europe as a vehicle for a social democratic, postnational politics. But as the real European Union increasingly diverged from this ideal, Habermas’s thinking failed to reckon with the project’s fundamental limits.jacobin.com/2026/03/haberm…

The feasibility of a broader set of redistributive policies under capitalism today is far larger than is commonly assumed.jacobin.com/2026/03/capita…

Zohran Mamdani needs to raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest to fund his affordability agenda. City council Speaker Julie Menin does not want to see that happen.jacobin.com/2026/03/menin-…

As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva seeks his fourth and final term as Brazil’s president, the Left’s decisions leading up to October’s elections will shape not just the next four years but the next era of Brazilian politics after Lula.jacobin.com/2026/03/brazil…

Modern democratic politics assumes a literate population. In the US, literacy peaked around 2014 and has been sliding since.jacobin.com/2026/03/politi…

After months of pressure on Lebanon’s government to disarm Hezbollah, Israel has now openly attacked the country. The victims are ordinary Lebanese people subject to Israel’s collective punishment.jacobin.com/2026/03/lebano…

Jürgen Habermas was among the leading thinkers of the German center left and its cosmopolitan Europeanism. But his thought also reflected the contradictions of this postnational outlook, including its severe blind spots regarding Israel.jacobin.com/2026/03/haberm…

The economy has more than enough room for greater redistribution of wealth right now, and socialists have every reason to be extremely ambitious in demanding more: jacobin.com/2026/03/capita…

New York City Council’s überwealthy Speaker Julie Menin is standing in the way of taxing the rich: jacobin.com/2026/03/menin-…

The contentious debates over the Left’s electoral strategy in Brazil’s October elections, which will see @LulaOficial face off against Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, reflect early skirmishes in the contest to define the Brazilian left after Lula: jacobin.com/2026/03/brazil…

The postliterate age may have more in common with primitive society than it does with the industrial modernity that produced it: jacobin.com/2026/03/politi…

The Lebanese have suffered many Israeli attacks before. But this time, the Israeli attack isn’t just about occupying — it is also about emptying the south of its population: jacobin.com/2026/03/lebano…

Some on the Left believe that the capitalist system will not tolerate any greater interventions in its operation or redistribution of its spoils. There is no good evidence that this is true. jacobin.com/2026/03/capita…

Jürgen Habermas often talked about political history as a learning process. But his thought rarely integrated the lessons of Europe’s interactions with the non-Western world: jacobin.com/2026/03/haberm…

Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to tax the superrich to fund universal childcare and other urgent working-class needs. The oligarchic city council Speaker Julie Menin is trying to block his agenda. jacobin.com/2026/03/menin-…