Jacobin

Jacobin stands out as a prominent platform for the American left, providing insights from a socialist viewpoint on various topics, including politics, economics, and culture. The magazine is published every three months and has a subscriber base of 75,000. Additionally, it attracts more than 3,000,000 visitors to its website each month.

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The IP Machine Laughs at Itself

3 days ago | jacobin.com | Eileen Jones

A lot has been written about the IP problem besetting mainstream filmmaking today. IP, or intellectual property, refers to all the preexisting material adapted to film by studios and producers. It’s a way of minimizing financial risk by relying on familiar sources that have already found favor with consumers.
The Economist Who Solved the Free-Rider Problem

4 days ago | jacobin.com | Benjamin Selwyn

Socialist arguments that cooperation and collective action represent the basis of a better society are often dismissed by supporters of capitalism. “Human nature,” so the argument goes, is inherently self-seeking. The so-called “free-rider problem” purports to prove that large-scale cooperation is unsustainable because individuals seek to benefit from the collective action of others while minimizing their own contribution.
Corporate Money Is Flooding NYC Council Elections

4 days ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

The last few years have seen corporate interests and pro-Israel groups regularly team up to beat back what they increasingly see as their common enemy: a grassroots-led socialist and progressive movement rising within the Democratic Party — usually by jumping into the party’s primaries to try to crush left-wing insurgents and incumbents. Last year, that strategy saw an avalanche of corporate money funneled through pro-Israel PACs unseat two members of the left-wing Squad from Congress.
Here Lies Hudson’s Bay Company, Murdered by Private Equity

4 days ago | jacobin.com | David Moscrop

Canada’s oldest company is dead. Hudson’s Bay, an iconic department store chain whose first location opened in 1881, has closed its retail shops and laid off its remaining employees — over 8,300 of them. The closures bring an end to a story that stretches back to the seventeenth century and the early days of the colonial project of British North America, the fur trade, and what would later become the country of Canada.
French Leaders Are Using Trump’s Trade War to Push Austerity

4 days ago | jacobin.com | Marlon Ettinger

Right from his inauguration, Donald Trump unleashed slash-and-burn austerity on the federal government — with even deeper cuts planned for coming months. As part of a breakneck eighteen-month agenda to maximize “governmental efficiency and productivity,” Trump has advanced a wide-ranging attack on the way the US government has hitherto functioned, including internationally.
The Debt Economy Is Eating Everyone Alive

6 days ago | jacobin.com | Casey Wetherbee

Last month, Billboard reported that around 60 percent of general admission attendees of the music festival Coachella financed their tickets through a “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) payment plan. These programs function as short-term loans, allowing consumers to pay for purchases in a series of installments — often with low or no interest.
Friendship Is a Cringe Comedy About Ghastly Human Need

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Eileen Jones

Though an excruciating movie to watch, even by cringe comedy standards, Friendship is a popular indie film that’s gone into wide release. The feature debut of writer-director Andrew DeYoung, who’s mainly worked in television (Our Flag Means Death, Pen15), Friendship is surprisingly well-done, sustaining a limited conceit long enough to make you consider the oddities of friendship between men in particular, and the increasingly common phenomenon of the isolated male.
Saskia Esken Failed to Change Germany’s Social Democrats

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Loren Balhorn

After being passed over for a ministerial post in Germany’s new grand-coalition government, it was clear that Saskia Esken’s time as a leading face of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) was approaching its end. Indeed, even her own state chapter declined to renominate her for the party executive several weeks before.
Pakistan’s Military Is Using War Fever to Boost Its Power

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Hamza Shehryar

Two weeks ago, Pakistan and India were on the brink of all-out war. On May 7, India’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government launched air strikes across the Line of Control (LoC), targeting sites in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and as far inland as Bahawalpur, Punjab. Branded “Operation Sindoor,” these strikes were, according to the Indian government, a response to the killing of Indian tourists by militants in Pahalgam, in Indian-administered Kashmir.
The Second-Class Citizenship of Palestinian Israelis

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Ilan Pappe

Interview by Magdalena Berger Palestinians in Israel have a complex relationship with the state in which they live. They have been citizens of the country for more than sixty years, but not full-fledged citizens, as Israeli historian Ilan Pappé indicates in his book The Forgotten Palestinians. They navigate a precarious position between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in the occupied territories. But their experiences are rarely the focus of attention.