The Irish Left Scores a Historic Triumph

Greg Wilpert / The Real News Network Feb 10, 2020 Jacobin contributor Michael Taft examines how the failures of Ireland's two center-right parties enabled the rise of Sinn Fein. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Progressive Media Failed Bolivia in the Run-Up to the Coup

Lucas Koerner / FAIR Dec 11, 2019 Alternative media's portrayal of Evo Morales as repressive, pro-capitalist and anti-environment plays a part in the story of his demise. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

How Warren’s ‘Medicare for All’ Plan Hurts the Cause

Ilana Novick / Truthdig Nov 5, 2019 A Democratic Socialists of America organizer argues that it needlessly complicates what should be a popular policy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Can Socialism Save American Democracy?

Jacob Sugarman / Truthdig May 28, 2019 Author Bhaskar Sunkara reflects on the differences between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, the future of Medicare-for-all and more. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Why Won’t the Mainstream Media Tell the Truth About ‘Medicare for All’? (Updates)

Jacob Sugarman / Truthdig Aug 17, 2018 A "fact-check" challenging Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claims about the legislation's cost efficiency is misleading at best and willfully dishonest at worst. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Jacobin Is Fueling the Lies About Syria

Daniel Lazare / Truthdig Feb 2, 2018 The greater the bloodshed, the more harm the misinformation put out by the magazine/website will wind up doing. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

A Blueprint for a Party That Is Truly for the Working Class

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 21, 2016 Such a party, writes Seth Ackerman at Jacobin magazine, "must be independent—determining its own platform and educating around it. It should actually contest elections. And its candidates for public office should be members of the party, accountable to the membership, and pledged to respect the platform.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Politics Is the Solution to Our Problems

By Jacobin Staff Nov 10, 2016 We can’t move to Canada or hide under the bed. This is a moment to embrace democratic politics, not repudiate them. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

If Things Are So Bad, Why Don’t We Do Something About It?

Staff / Truthdig May 18, 2016 "Mass collective action against exploitation and oppression is rare. If humans everywhere are committed to defending their individual interests, why don’t we resist more?" ask Jacobin magazine's Bhaskar Sunkara and Adaner Usmani. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

How Swedish Socialism Failed

By Louis Proyect / The North Star May 11, 2016 By the lights of its founding ideals, the Swedish model of socialism invoked by Bernie Sanders has been in decline since the 1970s, thanks to pressure from globalization and its original failure to concentrate ownership in the hands of workers. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Memory of Martin Luther King Is Distorted, Professor Argues

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 19, 2016 The "Commemorative King," the "Therapeutic King," the "Conservative King" and the "Commodified King." Each of them “competes for our attention," though they represent a vision of the man that “he himself would not have recognized,” writes history professor Thomas J. Sugrue. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Noam Chomsky on Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders, Syriza and the Power of Activism

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2015 In an interview in Jacobin magazine, the linguist and scholar predicts what would happen if Bernie Sanders won the 2016 presidential election and comments on the rise of progressive political parties like Greece's Syriza and figures such as Jeremy Corbyn of the U.K. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )