Jacobin

  • Why America Never Got a Labor Party

    While European labor movements established foundations for their welfare states in the late nineteenth century, it was not until the New Deal that the United States began instituting policies like unemployment insurance and old-age pensions. But although working-class struggle was also key to this success, several unique factors in American history proved an impediment to

  • We Need Natural Disaster Insurance for All

    California’s multibillion-dollar home insurance industry would have you believe it’s on the verge of collapse. In recent years, we’ve seen major insurance companies pull out of California, citing an inability to handle the state’s wildfires and other natural disasters. Other large insurers have threatened to follow suit — and then stayed put, using that threat

  • An ABC of Authoritarianism: Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

    Between the mid-1960s and the 1980s, military dictatorships dominated South America, epitomized by the ABC countries: Argentina from 1966 to 1971 and 1976 to 1983, Brazil from 1964 to 1985, and Chile from 1973 to 1990. Three historians of Latin America ask what, if anything, military rule in these three countries reveals about the current

  • Israel’s West Bank Occupation Is a Danger to Women

    Being a woman in Palestine means experiencing violence on two parallel tracks. There is the violence inflicted by the Israeli state, its military and settlers. There is also the violence perpetrated by men, whether soldiers, settlers, or husbands. Beyond the most visible manifestations of the Israeli occupation — arbitrary executions, home demolitions, land confiscations, and

  • Your Party Can Realign the British Left

    After a decade of highs and lows, the British left has entered into a period of realignment. We have for some time been confident of the potency of our ideas: a socialism broadly underpinned by working-class economic power, social liberation, anti-imperialism, and environmental justice. But we’ve long faced a challenge in expressing this politics organizationally.

Dissident Voice

  • Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing

    A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearly all of their 2025 profits to shareholders. Goldman Sachs returned $16.78 billion on $17.18 billion in earnings, meaning 97.7% of its earnings went to shareholders. Wells Fargo, Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Bank The post Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • To Be a Revolutionary Social Worker, or to be a Radical Worker, that is the Question

    The dichotomy between the social worker as a nine-to-five state agent and five-nine activist is a crucial one. The question can be summarised as: is there space, willingness and scope within social work to engage with broader structural issues that affect the lives of the people we work with? I spent an hour with the The post To Be a Revolutionary Social Worker, or to be a Radical Worker, that is the Question first appeared on Dissident Voice.

  • Dooming the Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma

    When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others. With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter that is hard to exaggerate.  The plight of its indigenous population has been horrendous, treated with brutish contempt by the British The post Dooming the Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma first appeared on Dissident Voice.

Mother Jones

  • Texas Democrat Flips State Senate District That Trump Won by 17 Points

    A Democrat and union leader won a special election on Saturday to represent a Texas state Senate district that Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024.  GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called the result, a 57-43 victory for Taylor Rehmet, “a wake-up call for Republicans across Texas” in an early Sunday post on X.

  • The Melania Movie Is an American Obscenity

    Even in the Trumpian corner of New Jersey, where I chose to witness Melania, the $75 million Amazon-produced film about the first lady, I predicted that I would be watching alone. This is, after all, a historically bad time for theatrical releases, and initial forecasts for Melania‘s opening weekend had been dismal. Yet there they

  • Federal Agents Launch Tear Gas at Nonviolent Anti-ICE Protesters—Including Children

    A peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday broke into chaos as federal agents deployed tear gas on demonstrators—including families with young children.  Thousands of protesters marched through the city and gathered in the blocks surrounding the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building. According to the Oregonian, just minutes after the crowd arrived at the facility,

  • In a Warming World, Winter Olympics Organizers Will Have to Adapt

    This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With an icy white sheet still blanketing much of the Eastern United States after an intense storm this week, it’s hard to imagine a future with less snow at this time of year.  But over time, climate change has decreased snowpack by as

  • In Scathing Ruling, Federal Judge Orders Release of Liam Ramos From Detention

    A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from an immigration detention facility outside San Antonio. Ramos, in the blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack, who became another symbol of the cruelty of ICE agents, was detained by federal agents earlier this month in a suburban Minneapolis neighborhood—an incident that

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  • Hands off Venezuela,

    The underlying cause of the ongoing and horrific US intervention in Venezuela is capitalism and resource imperialism. This drives the US to control their resources and coerce Global South countries into submission. Those that do not submit get attacked. The U.S. current attacks on Venezuela are sadly not the exception but the rule— Iran, 1953,

  • Trump’s Board of Peace Is a Dystopia in Motion

    While the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) might tempt some to dismiss it as mere spectacle or farce, its criminal, inhumane, and hegemonic nature make it far too dangerous to ignore. Last week, Trump and his new, thuggish boys’ club of heads of state, publicly

  • Iran’s Currency Crisis Sparks Protests and Attracts Foreign Meddling

    In early January, several currency trackers briefly displayed the Iranian rial’s value as “$0.00,” unable to process the speed and scale of the depreciation, making it unexchangeable on important international trading platforms. The fallout quickly translated into a protest in Teheran’s bazaar district and eventually led to a mass unrest. Unlike the 2019 fuel price

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Counterpunch

  • In a Holding Cell with a Transgender Migrant

    The politics of the humane opposes, contradicts, and combats the politics of profit, the politics of the machine, and the politics of spectacle. It is a method of engagement, consciousness-raising, and ultimately, leadership that seeks to reorient social relations and institutional policy so that they are no longer imprisoned by the cruelty of racism and other forms of hatred or encaged within the narrow thinking of cold, emotionally detached strategy of careerists in politico-drag. The politics of the humane, typically through the homiletics of example, preach the need to see social and economic issues through the eyes of the most endangered and harassed, reframing a worldview so as to achieve governance through the demands of the simplest of questions: What improves the prospect, quality, and dignity of human life? To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post In a Holding Cell with a Transgender Migrant appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • Minneapolis: Don’t be Fooled, the Siege Continues

    Tom Homan's whole show in Minneapolis was mainly for the benefit of Senate Democrats as they weigh what to do about the pending ICE budget package, and the message was that you all don’t need to go fussing around with U.S. immigration enforcement. Uncle Tom is here and he’s a reasonable man. To anyone who has kept abreast of what’s happening in Minneapolis, or listened closely to his words, the performance was reminiscent of Orson Welles’s turn as Hank Quinlan, the sweaty, porcine, rotting-from-the-inside police chief in Touch of Evil. More The post Minneapolis: Don’t be Fooled, the Siege Continues appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

  • Domestic Terrorism in Plain Sight: White Supremacy, State Violence, and the Assault on Democracy

    The United States is under siege, not by a foreign enemy, but by the Trump administration, which has transformed governance itself into a form of domestic terrorism in the service of a white supremacist state. By domestic terrorism, I mean the use of state-sanctioned intimidation, disappearance, and violence against civilian populations in order to discipline dissent, enforce racial hierarchy, and normalize fear as a mode of governance. Masked agents in unmarked vehicles, dressed in battlefield gear and operating beyond any recognizable legal authority, now stalk the streets, abducting, brutalizing, and in some cases killing people. Citizens and non-citizens alike are rendered disposable. Reason and the rule of law have collapsed, replaced by the naked exercise of state violence in defense of an apartheid politics. More The post Domestic Terrorism in Plain Sight: White Supremacy, State Violence, and the Assault on Democracy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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  • The Iran Escalation Machine: Narratives, Sanctions, and the Normalization of Force

    U.S. policy toward Iran is frequently sold as a reaction to urgent threats. In practice, it behaves more like a system: narrative escalation, economic coercion, covert pressure, and then the steady normalization of “military options.” The pattern repeats because it is institutionally convenient. It compresses debate, rewards maximal claims, and makes restraint look like failure.