Jacobin
- Ben Lerner’s Transcription Is a Brilliant Meditation on Tech
Authenticity, performance, the thin line between fact and fiction: these are, by now, the well-known central preoccupations of Ben Lerner’s fiction. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, follows an American poet named Adam Gordon in Madrid in 2004, who witnesses the aftermath of the 11-M commuter train bombings. Adam is a divisive lead; he’s
- Trump’s $1.5 Trillion for War Comes From Americans’ Pockets
Donald Trump made an uncharacteristically blunt statement on his priorities last week, inadvertently encapsulating the modern right’s philosophy. “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things. They can do it on a state basis; we can’t do it on a federal basis. We have to
- Americans (Still) Support a Federal Jobs Guarantee
In 2024, the Center for Working-Class Politics (CWCP) and Jacobin published a report summarizing the state of public opinion on a federal jobs guarantee. Looking across nine publicly available polls conducted since 2018, we found an average of 59% support for the policy. That’s not a slim majority driven by one partisan base but a
- A Socialist Teacher Is Running for Kentucky State House
Socialists’ highest-profile victories in the recent election cycle were scored in blue coastal cities in blue states: Zohran Mamdani’s and Katie Wilson’s campaigns for mayor of New York City and Seattle, respectively. But candidates backed by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) made inroads across the country last November, including in the South and the Midwest.
- When Rank-and-File Unionists Took On the Mob
My first contact with labor reformers in New York City was nearly fifty years ago. Like many rank-and-file dissidents before and since, these critics of union corruption were prophets without honor in their own union local. Teamsters Local 282 was at the time one of the most mobbed-up affiliates of a national union, then rightly
The Real News Network
- Black anarchism in the US: A rich, radical tradition
“The prison facility itself is maximum security, but society is just an extension; it's a minimum-security prison. And that [radical insight] is at the core of Black anarchism.”
- Western media accuses Iran of ‘escalation,’ taking ‘hostages’ for potentially capturing POW bombing their country
Watch as the routine defense of territory is turned into something sinister and aggressive.
- Israel, not Iran, is the imminent threat, says ex-counterterrorism official Joe Kent
“The Israelis attacked Iran… This whole series of events wouldn't have taken place if the Israelis would not have attacked. There was no imminent threat.”
The Progressive
- Industrial Fish Farms Could Break U.S. Fisheries
Congress is debating whether to open our public waters to the corporate seafood systems that exploit our marine resources.
- The Life and Career of Democracy Now! Founder Amy Goodman
‘Steal This Story, Please!’ is a call-to-action for independent media.
- International Adoptees Living in Limbo
An opaque, ‘Kafkaesque’ citizenship process has led many foreign-born adopted children in the United States to fear deportation from the only country they’ve ever called home.
Z Network
- What’s Next for the No Kings Movement?
It was the largest protest in US history. More than 3300 rallies in all 50 states and more on every continent across the globe. It’s an understatement to say No Kings III was an overwhelming success. It wove a rich tapestry of defiance, featured colorful, handmade signs, encouraged friends and family to rally together, and was supercharged by first-time participants. A strategy of “Each One Reach One” contributed to the astonishing turnout. Last June, five […]
- A History of US-Iran Relations
When the US backed dictator of Iran, Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in 1979 and the Islamic Republic led by the Ayatollah Khomeini was established in its place–and in November 1979, the Khomeini regime oversaw the taking of American hostages–US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote to President Jimmy Carter: “We are never going
- Connecting the War on US Workers with War on Iran
Income inequality has been escalating in this country since around 1980 and continues to get worse. Manufacturing jobs have been disappearing since the late 1970s, and the jobs that have “replaced” them have been substandard. The US labor union movement has done nothing to counter this, and as a result, the percentage of the unionized
Occupy.com
- Fighting the Corporations that are Killing Our Planet, Part II
In November, Indigenous protests in London included the launch of “Bringing It All Back Home,” confronting corporate power head-on.
FAIR
- Shannon Minter on ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ruling, Alex Frandsen on Local News Day
The Supreme Court ruled that prohibiting the widely discredited practice of trying to “convert” LGBTQ young people violates healthcare workers’ rights.
- Trouble for Nexstar Merger That Would Create Mega-Network for MAGA
FCC chair Brendan Carr approved a merger creating “the largest broadcast conglomerate in US history.” And he did so at the behest of his boss.
- Washington Post Promotes Nuclear Agenda Tied to Bezos’ Investments
The Washington Post relies on factual errors and distortions to make the case for the Trump administration’s unprecedented cuts to nuclear safety regulation.
Counterpunch
- One Blow After Another
On March 13th, buried in the New York Times’s coverage of the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict was a headline that would have been easy to miss amid the din of war coverage: “As El Niño Simmers, Scientists Warn of Weather Extremes Starting in Late Summer.” Many readers may not even have noticed it, but that article noted that scientists at the More The post One Blow After Another appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- Jonathan Kozol and the Struggle Against U.S. Apartheid
Although bookshelves groan under the weight of tracts about U.S. racism, no one's writings on the topic are more unsettling than Jonathan Kozol's. He is among our greatest and most eloquent dissenters. He writes not from studied objectivity but with an impassioned conviction that sears the conscience and haunts the soul. His books, once read, stay with you; his insights, once seen, can never again be unseen. Horrors we once attributed to happenstance or personal failure are revealed by Kozol for what they are: our society's deliberate punishment of innocent poor people, whose very existence reminds us of moral failures we prefer to imagine do not exist. More The post Jonathan Kozol and the Struggle Against U.S. Apartheid appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
- ‘Macron – Whose Wife Treats Him Extremely Badly’: Trump’s Iran War Unraveling
“I call up France, Macron – whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.” It is not the first time that Donald Trump has resorted to this kind of language. But the timing, as always, is everything. His remarks about Emmanuel Macron, delivered during a private lunch in Washington, More The post ‘Macron – Whose Wife Treats Him Extremely Badly’: Trump’s Iran War Unraveling appeared first on CounterPunch.org.