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A declining empire can grow more violent, not less.
From Iran to Cuba and Venezuela, Trump has made US power more brazen — but the system runs deeper than one president.
Our fall issue examines “precision warfare,” sanctions, NATO, and dollar power: jacobin.com/issue/the-new-em…
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Vladimir Putin has used the war in Ukraine to crush Russian civil society.
He’s had a helping hand from Western politicians, whose jingoistic statements help warn Russians off challenging their rulers. jacobin.com/2026/09/putin-uk…
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Artificial intelligence may make some tech workers easier to replace than they used to be.
But the increasing reliance on new physical infrastructure like data centers may actually serve to make the industry more reliant on other workers. jacobin.com/2026/10/labor-or…
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Donald Trump’s administration is still trying to deport its noncitizen political opponents for speech and other First Amendment–protected activity it doesn’t like. jacobin.com/2026/10/politica…
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Michael Moore was fired from Mother Jones after a fight over an article on the US-backed Contras.
His settlement helped finance “Roger & Me.” jacobin.com/2026/09/how-a-fi…
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Statements about defeating or dismembering Russia, delivered by senior Western politicians like the current EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, achieve little beyond solidifying Putin’s support within Russia. jacobin.com/2026/09/putin-uk…
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Workers have waged organizing drives in the tech industry in fairly large numbers over the past decade.
Yet tech workers have been able to build relatively little serious power on the job. Why? jacobin.com/2026/10/labor-or…
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The Trump administration got a high-profile rebuke in Minneapolis over its deportation obsession.
But it’s continued to quietly reshape the immigration system into a weapon against its political opponents. jacobin.com/2026/10/politica…
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.@sunraysunray tells the story of how a battle over the Sandinstas and the Contras ended Michael Moore’s magazine editing career — and launched his filmmaking career. jacobin.com/2026/09/how-a-fi…
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Last week the European Union lifted sanctions on two billionaire Russian oligarchs, even as it harshened sanctions on the population in general.
Shortsighted Western policy is powerfully alienating ordinary Russians. jacobin.com/2026/09/putin-uk…
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Two organizers who helped build the tech worker movement ask why its victories proved so difficult to turn into lasting power: jacobin.com/2026/10/labor-or…
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I wrote about one of my favorite bits of left-media history: in the '80s, MoJo editor @MMFlint objected to Paul Berman's Contra quasi-apologetics, Mother Jones fired him for it, he used his wrongful termination settlement cash to fund Roger & Me. jacobin.com/2026/10/how-a-fi…
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Donald Trump’s street-level ICE surges and deportation obsession are wildly unpopular.
That isn’t stopping the administration from continuing to target noncitizens over constitutionally protected free speech, including green card holders. jacobin.com/2026/10/politica…
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In 1986, as editor in chief at Mother Jones, Michael Moore spiked a Paul Berman piece that was soft on the Nicaraguan Contras.
He was fired — and used his severance to make “Roger & Me.” jacobin.com/2026/09/how-a-fi…
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Vladimir Putin has used the war in Ukraine to crush Russian civil society.
He’s had a helping hand from Western politicians, whose jingoistic statements help warn Russians off challenging their rulers. jacobin.com/2026/09/putin-uk…
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Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever. jacobin.com/2026/09/congress…
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Electoral campaigns can feed workplace struggle by politicizing people, raising their expectations, bringing activists together, and giving them experience organizing others.
Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns did all four. jacobin.com/2026/10/sanders-…
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Brazil's presidential election is on a knife-edge.
Right-winger Flávio Bolsonaro has powerful interests on his side but is also counting on the Trump administration's help to push him over the line. jacobin.com/2026/10/brazil-b…
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Ninety years ago this Sunday, antifascist demonstrators routed Oswald Mosley and his supporters when they tried to terrorize the Jews of London’s East End.
It’s an important anniversary in a year when a new far-right movement is gathering strength. jacobin.com/2026/10/cable-st…
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Ninety years ago, Congress investigated the “merchants of death.”
Today’s war profiteers are richer, more powerful, and just as overdue for scrutiny. jacobin.com/2026/09/congress…
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