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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Biden Paved the Way for Trump’s Leniency on Corporate Crime

5 days ago | jacobin.com | Freddy Brewster

The federal government under President Joe Biden prosecuted fewer corporate crime cases than at any point in the last three decades. White-collar criminal prosecutions hit a thirty-year low in recent years, according to data shared exclusively with the Lever.
Wrong on Principle, Wrong Politically

5 days ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

The Donald Trump administration is currently in the middle of what might be the gravest federal government overreach seen this century at least, asserting unprecedented repressive powers against even US citizens, defying a Supreme Court order to rectify one of its unlawful deportations, and thumbing its nose at core principles like the rule of law and separation of powers that American democracy was founded on.
How the Constitution’s Framers Got It Wrong

6 days ago | jacobin.com | Corey Robin

One of the continuing puzzles I come back to is the separation of powers: Where did the framers go wrong? Political scientists often claim that it is norms that undergird the US Constitution, but this is not at all the view of the framers. If anything, the idea that norms underpin the Constitution, maintaining its delicate balance of separated and limited powers, is an almost pre-founders, naive view of things.
Will Trump’s Attorney General Override the NLRB?

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Matt Bruenig

On April 3, 2025, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), an anti-union trade association, sent Attorney General Pam Bondi a letter urging her to invalidate fifteen National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases that were decided during the Biden administration. It is common for the NLRB to reverse some of its precedent whenever control of the presidency changes from one party to the other.
Elon Musk Decimated the Government and Saved Almost Nothing

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

$150 billion: that’s the grand total of savings Elon Musk revealed last Thursday that he and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are expecting to make after months of ruthless and often mindless cuts from a government the billionaire Trump megadonor claimed was riddled with fraud, waste, and graft. To call this a monumentally unimpressive number doesn’t do it justice.
ICE Sets Its Sights on Massachusetts Immigrant Workers

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Luis Feliz Leon

On April 14, federal agents snatched seafood processing worker Juan Francisco Mendez from his vehicle in New Bedford, Massachusetts, breaking the rear window with a sledgehammer while he and his wife were sitting in the car, pleading with the agents to wait for their lawyer and showing them their asylum application paperwork. “They didn’t wait for the lawyer to arrive here to be with us and broke the window,” said his wife Marilú Méndez, who recorded the incident on her cell phone.
Will Trump’s Attorney General Override the NLRB?

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Matt Bruenig

On April 3, 2025, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), an anti-union trade association, sent Attorney General Pam Bondi a letter urging her to invalidate fifteen National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases that were decided during the Biden administration. It is common for the NLRB to reverse some of its precedent whenever control of the presidency changes from one party to the other.
Elon Musk Decimated the Government and Saved Almost Nothing

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Branko Marcetic

$150 billion: that’s the grand total of savings Elon Musk revealed last Thursday that he and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are expecting to make after months of ruthless and often mindless cuts from a government the billionaire Trump megadonor claimed was riddled with fraud, waste, and graft. To call this a monumentally unimpressive number doesn’t do it justice.
Recovering Our Power

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Corey Robin

There’s a moment in chapter 12 of Capital where Karl Marx describes a critical phase of glassmaking in a manufacturing workshop. Five workers gather at “the hole” of the furnace, each focused on an individual task that, taken together, will produce a bottle.
Donald Trump’s Corrupt Tariff Quid Pro Quo

1 week ago | jacobin.com | Lucy Stockton

Donald Trump’s plan for blanket global tariffs isn’t just roiling the stock market and triggering international upheaval — it’s also opening the door for Trump to relaunch the tariff corruption game of his first term, in which the White House used the trade levies to punish opponents and reward donors. And this time around, Trump’s fired the government watchdog set to oversee such matters.