What is Heather Cox Richardsonism?

No longer just a Substack: it's one of the 3 emerging factions of the Democratic Party.

Neoliberal Globalization Never Abolished the Nation-State

Philip Cunliffe’s analysis of world politics after globalization takes the phony rhetoric of leaders like Tony Blair at face value instead of digging deeper. As a result, he can’t make sense of what g

The Downfall of Larry Summers Was Long Overdue

Larry Summers has been forced to step back from public life after revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. His moment of disgrace comes after decades of work promoting economic policies that hav

Guest Worker Schemes Are a Machine for Labor Exploitation

European governments that have pledged to clamp down on immigration are still expanding schemes for workers to come on short-term visas. Their goal is to maximize predatory exploitation of migrant wor

The most important open question about the political future

Can JD Vance sustain Trump’s cult of personality?

The Anarchist Currency with a Government Sponsor

Despite its professed commitment to radical libertarianism and a non-state theory of money, the crypto industry is actively cultivating government intervention in markets on its behalf. From recruitin

Democratic Governance Depends on Stable, Affordable Housing

A population that cannot afford to stay in one place cannot build civic associations, and a society without civic associations cannot resist concentrated power. The crisis of affordable housing has se

Squeezing Water From the Rubble in Syria

Reporting from Yarmouk — the devastated Palestinian refugee district on the edge of Damascus — Jacobin follows the Palestinian House, a grassroots reconstruction initiative, as it leads efforts to dig

What The US Is Doing To Ukraine Is Far Worse Than Yalta

How the great GOP bugbear of the past puts Trump to shame.

The Allies After America

In search of Plan B.

Latin America’s Revolution of the Right

China’s Long Economic War

How Beijing builds leverage for indefinite competition.

The Illiberal International

Authoritarian cooperation is reshaping the global order.

The Weakness of the Strongmen

How to Survive in a Multialigned World

The Indian way of strategic diversification.

The Dark Side of China’s Success

A Response to “The Real China Model”

The Illusion of Nuclear Deterrence

A Response to “Europe’s Bad Nuclear Options”

A tale of Time and Warner

The corporate history of Time Inc., its merger with Warner Communications to form Time Warner, and many other things

In Media MergerMania 2025, We All Lose

Whoever comes out on top of the scramble to gobble up Warner Bros. Discovery, media consumers will lose out as a smaller and smaller number of rich people determine what our media looks like. Having a

RIP Rob Reiner — a Mensch Who Made the Films We All Love

Rob Reiner and his wife were killed yesterday. While Donald Trump tweets out a disgraceful, mocking memorial, we’re celebrating a man who made a decade of great cinema as well as a liberal mensch who

The Speculative Architecture of Collapse

Three filmic visions of the American endgame

Aber Kawas’s Pro-Worker, Pro-Palestine Campaign

Aber Kawas is a Palestinian American community organizer and socialist running for New York assembly. We talked to her about her family history with ICE, the Palestine movement’s turn to electoral pol

"Charlie, we hardly knew ya"

The assassin didn't miss, but the American so-called 'right' seems intent on it - On political radicalization, Weimar Germany's Radical Right Wing, Spain on the eve of its civil war, etc.

For Me, Postpartum Testosterone Decline Has Been Very Real

unlike most, I have the numbers to justify the feelings

JD Vance Is the White Kendi

Against indigenous ways of knowing for hillbillies

Talking myself into a Netflix-Warner merger

I still have concerns.

How the Left Lost the Plot on Crypto (and How to Find it Again)

The story of crypto’s transformation from cypherpunk experiment to Wall Street darling is bleak, but it was not preordained. Where did the left go wrong, and how can it reassert itself in shaping the

Trump Wants Puerto Rico to Be the US’s Aircraft Carrier

Donald Trump is aiming to restore US supremacy in the western hemisphere through presidential will, military power, and emergency authority, unconstrained by Congress or international law — a strategi

The American People Don’t Want a Bigger Military Budget

Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week. H

The book is out!

Christmas came early to the Lindsey household this year, as a box of hot-off-the-press copies of The Permanent Problem arrived over the weekend.

Zohran Mamdani Wants You to Do More Than Survive

Our comrade won because he told New Yorkers they deserve it all — love, leisure, pleasure, sport. Photography by Jack Califano Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscr

America Can’t Build Homes Anymore

Cities stopped building not by accident but by design. Our housing system is constructed on scarcity, speculation, and private veto power. (John Greim / LightRocket / Getty Images) Sorry, this article

What Zohran Can Learn From the Sewer Socialists

From Milwaukee’s sewer socialists to La Guardia’s New Deal metropolis, urban reformers changed their cities by forging alliances beyond local power. Illustration by Gabe Schneider Sorry, this article

What Trump’s National Security Strategy Gets Right

Despite the bombastic rhetoric, America Isn’t retreating.

The Needless Rift Between America and Colombia

How to rescue Washington’s most important partnership in Latin America.

America’s Drone Delusion

Why the lessons of Ukraine don’t apply to a conflict with China.

When the Leaning Tower Leaned Left

In the 1970s, the Italian Communist Party was again on the rise in Tuscany. Then it all toppled over. Illustration by Gabe Schneider Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here t

Politics Is Something We Do

The hard part is over. The harder part is about to start. Illustration by Rose Wong Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Issue 60: Dossier

Everything you need to take over your city. Illustration by Rose Wong Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.

Issue 60: Letters + Internet Speaks

Keeping up with our constituents. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.