Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party styles itself as populist and anti-elite.
Yet it maintains close relationships with tech elites like Elon Musk, who was among the first to congratulate the party on Sunday’s election win. jacobin.com/2026/09/germany-afd-far-right-...
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Nobody seems to care anymore about the fears and threats that originally motivated the war on terror.
Yet 25 years after September 11, 2001, that war continues to infect American life at home and abroad, more violently and menacingly than ever. jacobin.com/2026/09/september-11-war-terro...
Americans’ muted reaction to the quarter-century anniversary of 9/11 reveals a waning zeal for the American imperial project.
We tolerate it only because we believe it can’t end.
But it can. jacobin.com/2026/09/imperialist-realism-co...
On September 11, 1973, Chile’s socialist president Salvador Allende was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup.
In this 1971 interview, published in English for the first time in Jacobin, Allende expressed his fears of destabilization and US interference. jacobin.com/2019/09/salvador-allenda-coup-...
Donald Trump and the Republicans want you to be terrified of socialists.
But they really don’t want to talk about our core economic policies, because the moment you spell those policies out, they sound pretty good. jacobin.com/2026/09/republican-convention-...
At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads.
As higher education increasingly conforms to corporate logic, its most durable product becomes a student with a proven capacity for overwork. jacobin.com/2026/09/higher-education-overw...
Art critic, novelist, Marxist, lover, exile, storyteller: John Berger resisted every easy definition.
His new biography embraces the contradictions he left behind. jacobin.com/2026/09/berger-biography-art-m...
It’s a mark of the absurdity of US foreign policy that the country most closely associated with the 9/11 attacks, Saudi Arabia, is the one Trump wants to help potentially make a nuclear weapon — even as he fights a war with Iran over this exact issue. jacobin.com/2026/09/nuclear-saudi-arabia-t...
French center-left presidential hopeful Raphaël Glucksmann embodies the hawkish tradition of the nouveaux philosophes.
Having learned little from recent military disasters, his is a brand of liberalism all too comfortable with “humanitarian” war-making. jacobin.com/2026/09/glucksmann-neoconserva...
Republicans will happily tell you that democratic socialists want to abolish police and prisons.
But they won’t bring up Medicare for All or freezing the rent — because the economic demands socialists unanimously support are far too appealing. jacobin.com/2026/09/republican-convention-...
Universities’ overwork-for-credentials bargain is losing legitimacy.
Two decades of economic deterioration and a graduate labor market that absorbs fewer of the people credentialed for it have stripped the promise of its plausibility. jacobin.com/2026/09/higher-education-overw...
In the TV series “Ways of Seeing,” John Berger impressed British audiences by offering a radical account of the history of Western art with the seductive charm of a rock star and the charisma of a late-night TV talk show host. jacobin.com/2026/09/berger-biography-art-m...
The United States wants to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons because of its coziness to extremists.
Meanwhile, it’s helping Saudi Arabia — the state most closely associated with 9/11 — potentially enrich uranium to the exact same level. jacobin.com/2026/09/nuclear-saudi-arabia-t...
Raphaël Glucksmann is likely to be the main center-left candidate for next year’s French presidential election.
Like US neocons, he believes that Western power is not merely permitted to confront tyranny abroad but morally obliged to do so. jacobin.com/2026/09/glucksmann-neoconserva...
Republicans spent their convention warning that socialists have taken over the Democratic Party.
But they were careful not to name a single socialist economic policy, because the moment you spell them out, they sound pretty appealing: jacobin.com/2026/09/republican-convention-...
A degree from many American universities now doubles as a promise to employers: this worker will absorb an 80-hour week and endure immense psychological pressure without complaint.
📰: jacobin.com/2026/09/higher-education-overw...
Dressed in a flamboyant patterned shirt and sporting a mane of graying locks, John Berger brought boundless charisma and radical politics to the history of art.
A new biography offers a look at the man behind the alluring: image.jacobin.com/2026/09/berger-biography...
Given Saudi officials’ proximity to and sympathy for extremists, the fear that the government could pass a nuclear weapon to terrorists is arguably far more acute with Saudi Arabia than Iran: jacobin.com/2026/09/nuclear-saudi-arabia-t...
Donald Trump and the Republicans want you to be terrified of socialists.
But they really don’t want to talk about our core economic policies, because the moment you spell those policies out, they sound pretty good. jacobin.com/2026/09/republican-convention-...
Years before he was a center-left presidential candidate in France, Raphaël Glucksmann worked for ill-fated Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili.
A diplomat who knew him writes for Jacobin about Glucksmann’s dangerously hawkish outlook: jacobin.com/2026/09/glucksmann-neoconserva...
Democratic socialist David Morales defeated the incumbent mayor of Providence, Rhode Island in last night's primary.
We spoke to him ahead of Election Day to talk about why he ran on rent stabilization and why the Left should run in Democratic primaries. jacobin.com/2026/08/morales-providence-ele...
At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads.
As higher education increasingly conforms to corporate logic, its most durable product becomes a student with a proven capacity for overwork. jacobin.com/2026/09/higher-education-overw...
Art critic, novelist, Marxist, lover, exile, storyteller: John Berger resisted every easy definition.
His new biography embraces the contradictions he left behind. jacobin.com/2026/09/berger-biography-art-m...
It’s a mark of the absurdity of US foreign policy that the country most closely associated with the 9/11 attacks, Saudi Arabia, is the one Trump wants to help potentially make a nuclear weapon — even as he fights a war with Iran over this exact issue. jacobin.com/2026/09/nuclear-saudi-arabia-t...
French center-left presidential hopeful Raphaël Glucksmann embodies the hawkish tradition of the nouveaux philosophes.
Having learned little from recent military disasters, his is a brand of liberalism all too comfortable with “humanitarian” war-making. jacobin.com/2026/09/glucksmann-neoconserva...
French center-left presidential candidate Raphaël Glucksmann embodies the hawkish tradition of the nouveaux philosophes.
Having learned little from recent military disasters, it's a brand of liberalism all too comfortable with “humanitarian” war-making. jacobin.com/2026/09/glucksmann-neoconserva...
The Mecca Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan is a response to insecurity and waning American power in the region.
The question is whether the new security order will produce more violence rather than less. jacobin.com/2026/09/mecca-agreement-middle...
Widely regarded as one of the pioneers of comics journalism, Joe Sacco has focused his work heavily on Palestine.
He spoke to Jacobin about the West’s complicity in Israel’s crimes and why it’s journalists’ job to talk about it. jacobin.com/2026/09/sacco-hedges-comics-jo...
A new report finds a massive divide between working-class voters and college-educated progressives.
Closing it means handing working-class people real power over a left-wing program. jacobin.com/2026/09/working-class-educated...
Americans across the political spectrum are coming together to fight against AI data centers and for solutions like public power.
Beholden to big donors, mainstream politicians won’t meet the moment — but the Left can. jacobin.com/2026/09/data-centers-oppositio...
China’s rulers will pay tribute to Mao Zedong’s role as founder of their state 50 years after his death.
But they’ve long since dismantled the economic system he created, swapping Maoist slogans for neo-Confucian rhetoric about a “harmonious society.” jacobin.com/2026/09/mao-zedong-anniversary...
The new Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia reflects a growing realization that the United States and Israel are the most significant drivers of instability in the Middle East. jacobin.com/2026/09/mecca-agreement-middle...
The Palestinian homes and streets illustrated in Joe Sacco’s cartoons have largely been reduced to rubble.
In an interview, Sacco spoke to Jacobin about the place of Palestine in his work, and why it’s journalists’ job to confront the powerful. jacobin.com/2026/09/sacco-hedges-comics-jo...
If the Left cultivated a leadership as working-class as its base — one that plainly names the villains people recognize from daily life, like price gouging and corporate greed — it would have a much better shot at a durable majority. jacobin.com/2026/09/working-class-educated...
In Tucson, residents packed a city council meeting and defeated an AI data center. The developer plowed ahead anyway.
The episode revealed the erosion of American democracy — and the appetite for political leadership against American tech elites. jacobin.com/2026/09/data-centers-oppositio...
For years, the Gulf states were willing to overlook American bellicosity because they felt protected from its consequences.
With US power declining, those states no longer feel so protected: jacobin.com/2026/09/mecca-agreement-middle...
A new book by cartoonist Joe Sacco and writer Chris Hedges, Requiem for Gaza, is based on dozens of Palestinians’ stories of surviving genocide.
Sacco spoke to Jacobin about their work, and why most Western media has failed to listen to Palestinians: jacobin.com/2026/09/sacco-hedges-comics-jo...
The Left's next generation of candidates need to come from shop floors and labor unions, not think tanks and NGOs: jacobin.com/2026/09/working-class-educated...
Seven in ten Americans oppose having an AI data center in their own community.
But both parties take Big Techmoney, and neither is capable of meeting the moment: jacobin.com/2026/09/data-centers-oppositio...
Xi Jinping’s ascendancy has coincided with the rise of neo-Maoist discourse in China.
However, there has been a simultaneous turn to neo-Confucian rhetoric: in lieu of waging class struggle, the people are called on to build a “harmonious society.”
📰: jacobin.com/2026/09/mao-zedong-anniversary...
The Mecca Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan is a response to insecurity and waning American power in the region.
The question is whether the new security order will produce more violence rather than less. jacobin.com/2026/09/mecca-agreement-middle...
Widely regarded as one of the pioneers of comics journalism, Joe Sacco has focused his work heavily on Palestine.
He spoke to Jacobin about the West’s complicity in Israel’s crimes and why it’s journalists’ job to talk about it. jacobin.com/2026/09/sacco-hedges-comics-jo...
A new report finds a massive divide between working-class voters and college-educated progressives.
Closing it means handing working-class people real power over a left-wing program. jacobin.com/2026/09/working-class-educated...
Americans across the political spectrum are coming together to fight against AI data centers and for solutions like public power.
Beholden to big donors, mainstream politicians won’t meet the moment — but the Left can. jacobin.com/2026/09/data-centers-oppositio...
China’s rulers will pay tribute to Mao Zedong’s role as founder of their state 50 years after his death.
But they’ve long since dismantled the economic system he created, swapping Maoist slogans for neo-Confucian rhetoric about a “harmonious society.” jacobin.com/2026/09/mao-zedong-anniversary...
Artificial intelligence poses major threats, from extreme labor market disruption to security dangers.
Managing those risks will mean taking on the concentrated power of the AI industry. jacobin.com/2026/09/ai-labor-replacement-c...
The US left has had some success winning primaries in Democrat-held constituencies.
But this can’t be a strategy for national success and the implementation of New Deal–style programs.
For that, we’ll need a supermajority. jacobin.com/2026/09/jentleson-supermajorit...
Healthy life expectancies between poor and rich regions in Britain can vary by as many as 20 years.
Not only is this a social crisis; it is undermining trust in government and fueling the far right’s cynical politics. jacobin.com/2026/09/uk-health-inequality-p...
Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election was grim, with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland now close to power for the first time.
The Left won’t beat it by defending the status quo. It needs organization and a future worth fighting for. jacobin.com/2026/09/afd-saxony-anhalt-elec...
Both the US and China increasingly see AI development as key to winning their great power rivalry.
Unless this hawkish approach is constrained, ordinary people’s jobs will suffer. jacobin.com/2026/09/ai-labor-replacement-c...