The fall issue of Jacobin is out now!

Among other topics, “The New Empire” examines why the erosion of US dominance has bred more violence, not less, and why militarism remains so politically durable.

Get it by starting a subscription for just $3: jacobin.com/subscribe?medi…

The midterms made clear that Americans are angry about the headlong rush into AI.

We are blocked from needed federal action for now, but states and localities have options that can move us toward eventual national regulation.jacobin.com/2026/11/ai-dat…

Make no mistake: the thousands of dollars that come out of your paycheck each year to pay for health insurance is a tax, just one paid to a private insurer rather than the federal government.

#MedicareForAll would actually lower your taxes. jacobin.com/2026/11/health…

UFCW Local 8–Golden State has been headed by one family since 1984.

Reform candidates say union staff are using intimidation tactics to prevent a competitive election this year. jacobin.com/2026/11/ufcw-l…

Reactionary feminist writers Mary Harrington and Louise Perry dress up arguments for marriage and sexual restraint in Marxist rhetoric. But they also point to the limits of liberal feminism — limits that the Left needs to grapple with. jacobin.com/2026/11/conser…

The emergence of the dollar as the world’s currency was the result of the rise of the US as the preeminent global power. But the slow erosion of US economic and political power will not automatically spell the end of the dollar system. jacobin.com/2026/11/oil-cu…

Data center build-outs are the most apparent of the many economic, political, fiscal, and environmental crises that hyperscale AI is inducing.

States have real tools they can use now against those crises. jacobin.com/2026/11/ai-dat…

We often overlook how much money comes out of our paychecks in the form of employer and employee health insurance premiums — effectively a tax paid to insurance companies.

A single-payer system would be more efficient and lower your real tax burden. jacobin.com/2026/11/health…

The 23,000-member UFCW Local 8–Golden State hasn’t seen competitive elections in decades.

A reformer now running for local president says union staff stalked him for 300 miles in an attempt to thwart his candidacy. jacobin.com/2026/11/ufcw-l…

Reactionary feminists are exposing the limits of the liberal claim that every form of sexual morality is anti-feminist.

The Left needs to offer our own, truly emancipatory response to this challenge. jacobin.com/2026/11/conser…

American military superiority supports the dollar’s international role, while dollar hegemony allows the US to sustain military expenditures and international commitments on a scale that would be much more difficult without the world’s reserve currency. jacobin.com/2026/11/oil-cu…

States should force tech firms to bear the social costs of their speculative investments in data centers: jacobin.com/2026/11/ai-dat…

Payroll health insurance contributions are a compulsory, unavoidable tax on your wages.

They just happen to be paid to private insurance companies rather than the government: jacobin.com/2026/11/health…

Eric Marcuz, a reform candidate in one of UFCW’s largest locals, says that a union rep stalked him for 300 miles in an attempt to stop Marcuz from getting enough petition signatures to run for leadership of the local: jacobin.com/2026/11/ufcw-l…

The midterms made clear that Americans are angry about the headlong rush into artificial intelligence.

We are blocked from needed federal action for now, but states and localities have options that can move us toward eventual national regulation. jacobin.com/2026/11/ai-dat…

A substantive feminist vision of sexuality, and of the good life for women, implies some form of sexual morality.

Reactionary feminists are correct on this point — but their analysis is compromised by a biological fatalism about gender: jacobin.com/2026/11/conser…

As America’s productivity lead and political legitimacy erode, it has leaned harder on sanctions and financial exclusion.

Relative decline does not spell the dollar’s imminent collapse, but we should prepare for its increasingly coercive use: jacobin.com/2026/11/oil-cu…

States with the highest percentage of midterm voters who identified as democratic socialist:

29%: Hawaii
25%: Oregon
24%: Delaware
23%: New Mexico, California, Vermont
22%: Connecticut
21%: Colorado, New York

“Commonsense Socialism” with @profwolff, @jacobin and @DavidGriscom is out now!

Make no mistake: the thousands of dollars that come out of your paycheck each year to pay for health insurance is a tax, just one paid to a private insurer rather than the federal government.

Medicare for All would actually lower your taxes. jacobin.com/2026/11/health…

Black and Hispanic voters continue to be the most likely demographic groups to self identify as democratic socialists.

31% of black voters and 23% of hispanic voters identified as democratic socialists in exit polls by CNN and NBC — consistent with the NYT’s September poll.