Jacobin

  • This July 4, Let’s Resolve to Win an Actual Democracy

    The bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence began early for many Americans. On a chilly December morning in 1973, a reenactment of the Boston Tea Party, sponsored by the City of Boston, transformed into protests over contemporary concerns. Barrels labeled “Gulf Oil,” “Exxon,” and “Shell” were tossed into the harbor to denounce environmental destruction. Marchers

  • Shulamith Firestone’s Postmortem for Radical Feminism

    Throughout the second half of the 1990s, a wave of articles published in the mainstream US media declared, with jolting regularity, the end of feminism. By then, the movement had grown used to obituaries. A June 1998 Time cover featured the black-and-white disembodied heads of Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem alongside the fictional

  • Christianity and Sex Have Always Had an Awkward Relationship

    Those who think that the Christian churches are responsible for all the ways in which Western society’s attitudes toward sex are repressive, unhealthy, demeaning, and misogynist will not find vindication in Diarmaid MacCulloch’s latest book, Lower Than the Angels. Nor will it offer support for those who seek a historical golden age, either because they

  • ICE Is About to Get More Money Than It Can Spend

    Donald Trump’s ambitious budget reconciliation bill includes tax breaks for the rich, the single largest cut to food stamps as hunger hits a two-decade high, and a $1 trillion cut to Medicaid. Given this bevy of unpopular policy, it’s little wonder why few politicians have singled out the bill’s historic budget for immigration and border

  • How Canada Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dysfunction

    The internet philosophers who like to say that “nothing ever happens” would find plenty of support from recent Canadian politics. This spring’s federal election was supposed to be the most consequential since 1988, or even 1911, because, like those earlier contests, it was meant to settle the existential question of the country’s relationship with the

Shadowproof

  • Shadowproof Is Shutting Down

    After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is coming entirely to an end. The post Shadowproof Is Shutting Down appeared first on Shadowproof.

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      Mother Jones

      • Republicans Just Passed “the Worst Bill in Modern American History”

        Just in time for the nation’s birthday, House Republicans have passed the most regressive legislation in recent memory, a bill that’s expected to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and boot some 12 million Americans off their health insurance, even as it explodes the federal deficit—all to extend and expand tax cuts that favor the rich.

      • “An Absolute Moral Failure”: Disability Advocates React to GOP Medicaid Cuts

        On Thursday, House Republicans voted to enact a spending bill that will strip close to one trillion dollars from federal Medicaid funding across a decade—an attack expected to cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths each year, disproportionately among the one in three disabled people on Medicaid in the US. The cuts will, among other

      • The Supreme Court Turns Its Sights on Trans Athletes

        The US Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear a pair of cases in the fall involving state laws in that ban transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s school sports. The cases originate in Idaho, which passed the country’s first trans youth sports ban in 2020, and West Virginia, which

      • The Choice Some Pregnant Immigrants Face: Deportation or Parenthood

        Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, and Texas completely outlawed abortion in communities along the Rio Grande Valley, the effect was swift. In this region, which is home to 1.4 million residents, most of them Latinx or immigrants, the area’s only abortion clinic in McAllen was forced to shut down. “When we

      • Trump’s FCC Scraps Ban on Prison Phone Price Gouging, a Gift to Some of His Top Donors

        This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. The Federal Communications Commission will no longer enforce a rule capping the price of prison phone calls, according to an announcement made Monday by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. The move suspends a 2024 FCC decision that capped the price of in-state phone calls at 6 cents

      Dissident Voice

      • A Zionist Gaza is a Sick Vision Unworthy of any Country with Integrity

        Dear Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada: Prime Minister Carney’s statement that the solution to Mideast peace was a “Zionist Gaza” made me ill. It demonstrated his support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians and showed total contempt for international law. Canada’s official foreign policy supports international law and Canada is a signatory to The post A Zionist Gaza is a Sick Vision Unworthy of any Country with Integrity first appeared on Dissident Voice.

      • Nothing to Say, Ma

        As a result of recent conversations, my life-long closest friend Diego wrote the following. If you’re lucky as we are, you have such a friend whose interests and thoughts match yours so closely that it seems that you were separated at birth in a dream. We both felt from the days of our youth when The post Nothing to Say, Ma first appeared on Dissident Voice.

      • The Impeachment Problem

        I wish U.S. academics would spend less time fantasizing choices between various murders with trollies, or playing games with theories about how greedy robots might do diplomacy, and more time on the impeachment problem. The United States has an impeachment problem. Impeachment was put into a Constitution that made no mention of, allowance for, or The post The Impeachment Problem first appeared on Dissident Voice.

      The Progressive

      • Reasons to Celebrate the Fourth of July

        We're living through what will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the most shameful periods in U.S. history. Let's use the holiday to affirm our commitment to progress.

      • The Plot Against Iran

        How the International Atomic Energy Agency and its director became part of the U.S.-Israeli plan for war on Iran.

      • Keep Them On The Shelf

        An interview with author Ira Wells on the fight against book banning.

      Counterpunch

      • Valor in the Face of Inhumanity

        Donya Ahmad Abu Sitta and her family were first displaced just four days into the war, on October 11, 2023. She told me, “They bombed our neighborhood in Khan Younis, so we evacuated to a nearby school that had been converted into a shelter. We were thinking the school would be safer than our home because it was under UN control. But after we were there for a month, they bombed the building next to the school. It was 6 a.m.; I awoke covered by glass shards because the blast broke the window beside me.” More The post Valor in the Face of Inhumanity appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

      • NATO’s Hallucinations

        Having agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the European states have created a series of problems for themselves. The first problem is that they would have to invent the money out of their tight budgets. To raise their military expenditure to 5% of GDP would require them to reduce their social spending – in other words, to deepen the austerity policies that are already in place. More The post NATO’s Hallucinations appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

      • The Czech Billionaire, the Union Pact and a Very British Power Play

        When a billionaire dubbed the ‘Czech Sphinx’ takes control of Royal Mail—Britain’s storied postal service—it’s both a chance for modernisation and a kind of slow-motion national retreat. Add a freshly decorated union leader, a former Tory minister turned company adviser, and a beleagured Labour government clutching a golden share in one hand and silence in the other, and things get murkier. This isn’t just about logistics or labour anymore. It’s a case study in corporate power, institutional compromise, and the fine print of national identity.  More The post The Czech Billionaire, the Union Pact and a Very British Power Play appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

      The American Prospect

      Antiwar.com

      • This Is Israel’s War – Not Our War

        President Trump, to his credit, demanded a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Both countries agreed to it. Then, the president became very angry with Israel because, as he said, “As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I’ve never seen before.” But

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