4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (549+ words) It’s a mark of the absurdity of US foreign policy that the country most closely associated with the 9/11 attacks, Saudi Arabia, is the one Trump wants to help potentially make a nuclear weapon — even as he fights a war with…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (626+ words) Get an introductory Jacobin subscription for just $20 From Dr Frank-N-Furter to Pennywise the killer clown, Tim Curry played every role at full volume — and made a six-decade career out of refusing to be small. Tim Curry got the same greeting…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (394+ words) Get an introductory Jacobin subscription for just $20 The harshest critics and the biggest boosters of childcare programs are trapped in an unproductive debate. We need much more generous funding for both daycare and at-home childcare so families can choose the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1327+ words) Get an introductory Jacobin subscription for just $20 For decades, Dolly Parton, who died yesterday at age 80, wrote about poverty, hard work, and the defiant pride of working-class women. The Left should steal a page from her songbook. There’s a reason…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (290+ words) Get an introductory Jacobin subscription for just $20 Heteropessimism holds that men and women are incapable of understanding one another, foreclosing the possibility of more equal, fulfilling relations between the genders. But romantic love may offer us a way out of…...