Expensive Taste
Foodways dependent on factory farming and global monocultural agriculture might be cheap in the short term, but we could pay heavily in the future.
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The End of History Was a Hell of a Drug
The collapse of the Soviet bloc led to a flowering of utopian thinking among our best and brightest.
Songs About Getting By in America
Misery has inspired some great art.
The Wizard of Oz’s Greenback Conspiracy
Many of the fantastical elements of The Wizard of Oz were drawn directly from the monetary debates of the 1890s.
Making Ends Meet in the Cinematic Apocalypse
The radioactive mutants have taken the highways, and the microchips have been implanted in us, but there are still bills to pay.
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Here’s the Socialist Beach Reads List You Desperately Need
It’s summer, which means it’s time for a foray into service journalism: here are the beach reading recommendations of our staff and contributors.
Issue 45: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
ESPN Says It’s Okay to Gamble Now
Our sports entertainment industry has become interlinked with gambling interests.
Built for a Supervillain
Jacobin ranks the all-time best James Bond villain secret lairs.
At Starbucks, There Are No Workers, Only “Partners”
A December 2021 missive from managers at the Elmwood Avenue location of Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, after workers voted 18 to 9 in favor of unionizing, shared by Starbucks Workers United on Twitter.
Hijackobin!
Our favorite hijacking movies.
Didion on the New Left
Much of the late Joan Didion’s writing from the 1960s and ’70s is characterized by a pessimism about the New Left. She thought hippies and the rest of the counterculture were worthy of contempt, and she thought radicals like the Black Panther Party and various Marxist groups were both ludicrously far from power and frightening menaces to society.
How to Make the Internet a Truly Public Good
Four lessons from Ben Tarnoff’s Internet for the People.
It’s Bigger Than Amazon
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Voices From a Forgotten Revolution
The Rural Electrification Act (REA), passed in 1936 as part of the New Deal, enabled the federal government to provide loans to rural electric cooperatives. Access to electricity transformed education, farm work, and home life for communities previously ignored by big electric companies. Nearly 50 years after the passage of the act, the North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives conducted 44 interviews with rural residents whose lives were affected by the REA.
The Attack on Yemen’s Infrastructure — and the Humanitarian Disaster That Followed
Saudi planes have wreaked havoc on every part of Yemen.