The Food and Drug Administration has approved controversial drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease amid excess deaths, questionable efficacy, and conflicts of interest between regulators, patient advocates, and Big Pharma.

Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 75,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 3,000,000 a month.

2023年12月30日 · Jacobin has been publishing in print and online since late 2010. In case you haven’t been with us for that long — or if you need a refresher — we’ve compiled a list of essential socialist reading on politics, economics, history, and more from our archives.

4 天之前 · The announcement by the new Donald Trump administration to suspend foreign aid spending — approximately $68 billion annually — has sent shock waves across the world. This decision will not only affect military aid, which makes up a large percentage of the total, but also threatens funding for development aid, human rights campaigns, and initiatives that support democratic institutions ...

23 小时之前 · The horrors of the Israeli assault on Gaza and its people are beyond words. Yet as we watch hundreds of thousands of Palestinians make their way across the ruins of Gaza to return to where their homes once stood, we cannot help but admire their resilience and their refusal to be displaced from their land and country.

2 天之前 · Soon after the roof canopy of Novi Sad’s central train station collapsed last November 1, killing fifteen people, a TV reporter asked local journalist Igor Mihaljević to respond to the event. With devastating and incisive judgement, he offered the context missing in Western media coverage of the incident and the protests of the last few months.

2024年12月4日 · Confronting Capitalism, a new Jacobin podcast hosted by Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber, starts from a basic premise: if you want to go beyond capitalism, first you have to understand why it is such a powerful and resilient system of social domination.. To do that, we need more than talking points and reports on the daily news cycle. Confronting Capitalism cuts through the chaos to provide a ...

Daniel Bessner This is how I view it. There’s going to be a lot of information that we don’t know surrounding the actual cease-fire, and it’s going to take years, if not decades, to develop the whole story based on classified documentation and interviews with people who were there in both the outgoing Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration.

2025年1月17日 · Read Jacobin’s retrospective on Joe Biden’s domestic policy here.. On the domestic front, Joe Biden’s record has been such a hodgepodge of contradictions that it’s difficult to properly rate it. There is no such ambiguity when it comes to his foreign policy, which was an abject disaster, both by the standards of any peace-loving person who wants a world with less war and chaos and on ...

2025年1月4日 · Articles by Editors. Confronting Capitalism: Why Elites Love Identity Politics. In the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the Democrats’ long-standing attachment to identity politics and why this form of politics can’t meaningfully fight oppression.