Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.

Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 75,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 3,000,000 a month.

1 天前 · Review of On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World by Kevin Rudd (Oxford University Press, 2024). US president Donald Trump’s cautious approach to China in the first weeks of his second presidency has provoked much speculation. Certain predictions now seem quite prescient.

Despite polling consistently showing that voters are deeply concerned about medical care and its costs, neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris is offering a sweeping vision of health care reform.

2025年1月17日 · Read Jacobin’s retrospective on Joe Biden’s domestic policy here.. On the domestic front, Joe Biden’s record has been such a hodgepodge of contradictions that it’s difficult to properly rate it. There is no such ambiguity when it comes to his foreign policy, which was an abject disaster, both by the standards of any peace-loving person who wants a world with less war and chaos and on ...

2023年12月30日 · Jacobin has been publishing in print and online since late 2010. In case you haven’t been with us for that long — or if you need a refresher — we’ve compiled a list of essential socialist reading on politics, economics, history, and more from our archives.

2024年11月6日 · “It is happening again.” This morning, with Donald Trump in command of another crushing presidential victory, the dreadful words from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks sit like lead inside many stomachs. As the climax of a frenzied campaign and the triumph of so much that is vicious and corrosive in American society, Trump’s second election comes as a shock.

Daniel Bessner This is how I view it. There’s going to be a lot of information that we don’t know surrounding the actual cease-fire, and it’s going to take years, if not decades, to develop the whole story based on classified documentation and interviews with people who were there in both the outgoing Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration.

2023年9月17日 · Jacobin has now been in print for thirteen years. That means thirteen years of publishing with the goal of revealing the truth about capitalism — a system based on exploitation and the degradation of the human spirit — and thirteen years of offering a vision of a real alternative to it, socialism.

2022年12月31日 · We published 2,500 original essays in 2022. Here’s a recap in case you missed one or two of them.