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“There is so much Rascallity, so much Venality and Corruption, so much Avarice and Ambition, such a Rage for Profit and ...

Jonathan Chait’s Atlantic essay claims the Democratic Socialists of America has betrayed the legacy of its founder, Michael ...

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Could democratic socialism become the brand of a new generation of political actors — not just on the fringe, not just in New ...

The feminist insight that personal life is political is complicated by neoliberalism, which casts political problems as ...

Americans used to fight for constitutional change — and not just in the Supreme Court chamber. Jill Lepore talked to Jacobin ...

The leading black intellectual and freedom fighter W. E. B. Du Bois was a longtime committed socialist and, eventually, a ...

The last of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries, workhouses for “morally wayward” women, closed in 1996. Since then, the ...