The Australian Football League views the NFL’s corporate success jealously.
But in its desire to expand, it threatens to ruin what makes the sport truly great. jacobin.com/2026/04/sports-australian-foot...
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In her book "Surviving Rome," Kim Bowes gives us a magnificent, revelatory picture of the Roman Empire’s working population, how they lived their lives, and the price they paid for generating the wealth that accrued to a privileged social elite. jacobin.com/2026/04/bowes-roman-empire-wor...
Even African countries that promise universal health care often fail to deliver this in practice.
Years of cuts pushed by the IMF and World Bank have decimated public services and often pushed these states further into debt. jacobin.com/2026/04/africa-imf-austerity-h...
Lack of democratic organization within the United Farm Workers was a fatal flaw that allowed César Chávez to abuse girls and women — and also led to the downfall of the union itself. jacobin.com/2026/04/chavez-undemocratic-un...
When Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that Israeli strikes had destroyed around 70% of Iran’s steel production capacity, he was not describing a military achievement.
He was boasting about an act of economic destruction. jacobin.com/2026/04/isreal-iran-war-crimes...
The Roman period saw some of the most intensive exploitation of the countryside before the modern age.
New data from human skeletons has revealed the dangerous consequences of living in a world where the human body was the principal productive machine. jacobin.com/2026/04/bowes-roman-empire-wor...
Kenya is meant to have a public health care system that everyone pays into.
In practice, Kenyans' contributions serve to pay Western creditors, while ordinary citizens can’t expect free treatment in return. jacobin.com/2026/04/africa-imf-austerity-h...
There were two reasons that no one in the United Farm Workers sought the truth about the long-standing rumors of César Chávez’s sexual abuse: he was an authentic hero in the union, and everybody in his organization owed their job to him. jacobin.com/2026/04/chavez-undemocratic-un...
The “dual-use” designation Israel and the US use to justify their choice of targets in Iran functions not as a legal standard with defined criteria but as a roving license for economic warfare conducted under the rhetorical cover of nonproliferation. jacobin.com/2026/04/isreal-iran-war-crimes...
The Australian Football League is a corporation that longs for global expansion.
But in its greed and desperation, the league is undermining what makes the game great. jacobin.com/2026/04/sports-australian-foot...
Our images of the Roman Empire are dominated by the monuments and lifestyles of wealthy urban elites.
An important new history shifts our attention to the 90% of Rome’s population whose brutally exploited labor made it all possible. jacobin.com/2026/04/bowes-roman-empire-wor...
Years of IMF and World Bank reforms have created two-tiered health care systems across Africa.
In Kenya, the private sector is out of reach for most, but public health care has been wrecked by budget cuts and the introduction of fees for many services. jacobin.com/2026/04/africa-imf-austerity-h...
The horrifying revelations of César Chávez’s widespread sexual abuse of young women and girls were in part rooted in the culture of unquestioning loyalty and top-down dictation that Chávez established in the United Farm Workers. jacobin.com/2026/04/chavez-undemocratic-un...
From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iran’s technical infrastructure.
While claiming their only issue is with Iran’s rulers, they have targeted its entire people and their achievements. jacobin.com/2026/04/isreal-iran-war-crimes...
Critics read Ben Lerner's new novel, "Transcription," as a commentary on smartphones.
But with gothic style and a Victorian temperament, it meditates on a much older technology: the spectral quality of disembodied speech introduced at the dawn of telephonics. jacobin.com/2026/04/lerner-transcription-v...
Capitalists have succeeded in arranging the future as a calculable source of extraordinary wealth, enriching a few in the present by imposing debts on the vast majority — and undermining the environmental conditions for a better tomorrow. jacobin.com/2026/04/capitalism-future-prof...
Zohran Mamdani’s early wins are a testament to what a talented left-wing municipal executive can accomplish even in the face of major obstacles.
But much of his ambitious agenda will remain blocked if he can’t convince the state to tax the rich. jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-mayoralty-muni...
The recent death of a student at the University of Belgrade triggered a police raid and fresh government attacks on education.
Professors appear as the vanguard of a broad social movement, but their plans for change are less clear. jacobin.com/2026/04/serbia-university-belg...
"Transcription," the new novel by Ben Lerner, is the author’s take on nineteenth-century gothic.
And like the Victorians, who held séances over the novel telephone, it dwells on the occult character of technology that severs speech from the speaker. jacobin.com/2026/04/lerner-transcription-v...
Capitalist profitability increasingly depends on the extraction of value from the future, whether that takes the form of burdening ordinary people with debt or imposing severe ecological costs on coming generations. jacobin.com/2026/04/capitalism-future-prof...
Using the mayor’s office to craft new forms of mass mobilization on top of the usual work of governance is a tall order for Zohran Mamdani.
But it’s a sine qua non for a successful socialist mayoralty. jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-mayoralty-muni...
The resource wars between the US and China have accelerated the determination of both sides to escape their dependencies on each other.
The two great powers are dismantling the integrated economy they spent fifty years building together. jacobin.com/2026/04/trump-china-iran-resou...
For a year and a half, Serbia has been stirred by an ongoing movement against authoritarian rule and government cronyism.
The University of Belgrade has been an epicenter of large protests, but it’s not clear that everyone has the same idea of change in mind. jacobin.com/2026/04/serbia-university-belg...
Some critics misinterpret Ben Lerner’s "Transcription" as a broadside against smartphones.
Really, it’s a meditation on all disembodied communication — and like a Victorian spiritualist encountering the telephone, Lerner senses ghosts in the wires. jacobin.com/2026/04/lerner-transcription-v...
Capital does not typically come into being as an asset saved up from the past, as we usually imagine, but through mechanisms of extraction from the future. jacobin.com/2026/04/capitalism-future-prof...
Could the Zohran Mamdani administration adopt a more confrontational tack to get out of its budget stalemate with Governor Kathy Hochul? jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-mayoralty-muni...
The US attack on Iran was ultimately directed against China.
Donald Trump wanted to grab control of Iranian oil fields as part of a wider plan to cut off the supply of key commodities to the Chinese economy. jacobin.com/2026/04/trump-china-iran-resou...
A recent speech by the rector of Belgrade university was soon immortalized as a defiant response to rising authoritarianism.
Calls for him to run for election show the importance of the university protests but risk limiting the movement’s ambitions. jacobin.com/2026/04/serbia-university-belg...
Critics read Ben Lerner's new novel, "Transcription," as a commentary on smartphones.
But with gothic style and a Victorian temperament, it meditates on a much older technology: the spectral quality of disembodied speech introduced at the dawn of telephonics. jacobin.com/2026/04/lerner-transcription-v...
Capitalists have succeeded in arranging the future as a calculable source of extraordinary wealth, enriching a few in the present by imposing debts on the vast majority — and undermining the environmental conditions for a better tomorrow. jacobin.com/2026/04/capitalism-future-prof...
Zohran Mamdani’s early wins are a testament to what a talented left-wing municipal executive can accomplish even in the face of major obstacles.
But much of his ambitious agenda will remain blocked if he can’t convince the state to tax the rich. jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-mayoralty-muni...
The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive.
But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resources. jacobin.com/2026/04/trump-china-iran-resou...
The recent death of a student at the University of Belgrade triggered a police raid and fresh government attacks on education.
Professors appear as the vanguard of a broad social movement, but their plans for change are less clear. jacobin.com/2026/04/serbia-university-belg...
Levi's life and the cautious Enlightenment ideology he advanced in his work, Enzo Traverso writes, told the story of the twentieth century and its battles. jacobin.com/2021/04/primo-levi-enlightenme...
Los Angeles public school teachers have declared a strike deadline of April 14.
The conflict forces the question of whether schools are an EdTech business opportunity or a public responsibility.jacobin.com/2026/04/tech-teachers-los-ange...
War, and now a fragile ceasefire, is not bringing collapse in Iran but reinforcing and reorganizing its existing structures of power and inequality.jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-war-regime-crisis...
In his first 100 days as mayor, @ZohranKMamdani has realized that New Yorkers — and all Americans — need to see the government working for them.jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-100-days-sewer...
Funneling millions to the Trump administration through undisclosed donations, a slew of corporations and lobbyists are potentially violating disclosure laws to help bankroll the president’s ballroom and other pet projects.jacobin.com/2026/04/dark-money-trump-legac...
The Supreme Court’s willingness to protect the Fed — in contrast to every other independent regulatory commission — reflects the strength of its loyalty to neoliberal capitalism over the Trump administration and even the vaunted “unitary executive theory.”jacobin.com/2026/04/scotus-trump-fed-neoli...
Elections on Sunday could finally remove Viktor Orbán from power.
Opposition forces have rallied behind rival candidate Péter Magyar, less out of belief in his program than from desperation at the country’s authoritarian turn.jacobin.com/2026/04/hungary-elections-orba...
Los Angeles’ looming teachers’ strike pits educators against powerful adversaries: district managers who see budget shortfalls as an opportunity to replace workers with software and a tech industry targeting public education as its next growth market.jacobin.com/2026/04/tech-teachers-los-ange...
The war in Iran has not caused collapse. Instead, it has reinforced a system where poverty produces anger, while a bombing campaign has strengthened rather than broken the state.jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-war-regime-crisis...
In his first 100 days as New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani has turned mundane governance into great showmanship and revived the idea that government can be used to better average people’s lives.jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-100-days-sewer...
At least 35 corporations have helped bankroll Donald Trump’s pet projects, such as his East Wing ballroom and presidential library, without properly disclosing such lobbying — the latest in potential corruption allegations in the White House.jacobin.com/2026/04/dark-money-trump-legac...
When it comes to the Fed, the conservative Supreme Court is betraying its commitment to “unitary executive theory” and Donald Trump to avoid spooking the markets.jacobin.com/2026/04/scotus-trump-fed-neoli...
Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar has rallied liberals with talk of democratic standards, but he also leans into nationalist and anti-immigration rhetoric in order to attract Viktor Orbán’s base.jacobin.com/2026/04/hungary-elections-orba...
With an April 14 strike deadline in Los Angeles, public school teachers are contesting the transformation of schools into a market for ever-proliferating contractor start-ups: jacobin.com/2026/04/tech-teachers-los-ange...
The war in Iran, however the ceasefire goes, will not resolve the tension between internal repression and external pressure within the country.
It will simply reshape the conditions under which Iran’s system will persist: jacobin.com/2026/04/iran-war-regime-crisis...