Fun and Games?
Youth sports are transforming from neighborhood fun to big business.
519 Article(s) by: Editors
High School Hunting Grounds
When the military wants to recruit students, it targets schools in big cities and the South, as well as schools that are poorer and less white than the national average.
New Study: Union Candidates Deliver for Workers
A new study from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin reveals that politicians with union backgrounds campaign more aggressively for workers and vote further left — but unions rarely recruit them.
Books Jacobin Loved in 2025
This year was a depressing one for politics, but it produced books that were ambitious and serious attempts to understand the present. From novels about millennial ennui to sweeping histories of the West, 2025 had a lot to offer to readers.
A Double Issue of Catalyst Journal Is Out Now
The new edition is essential reading to understand the current moment, how we got here, and how the Left should strategize in these difficult times.
Issue 60: Dossier
Everything you need to take over your city.
Issue 60: Letters + Internet Speaks
Keeping up with our constituents.
A Poet in Practice
Aimé Césaire’s time as the mayor of Martinique’s capital city was characterized by his practical, progressive politics — but also by his poet’s eye for beauty.
Stand-In Cities
New York isn’t what it used to be.
Bernie’s Fireside Chats
Before there was a YouTube, and even before there was an internet, there was public-access television. Low-budget, talky, unglamorous, and unfiltered, it was the perfect venue for the political rise of none other than Bernie Sanders.
The Grass Is Greener
Every game of golf in New York City comes at a cost.
Lost Art
The Geneva Freeport is home to millions of masterpieces you and I will never see. lost-art
A Planet of Slums?
Mike Davis may still be right that slums will dominate the cities of the future — but his prediction was at least a decade premature.
The Pharaoh’s Curse
Egypt’s authoritarian president has recreated Cairo in his image, bulldozing ancient tombs, working-class neighborhoods, and the city’s already scarce green space.
Free Reign
Eric Adams’s alleged record as Brooklyn borough president and mayor of New York City would be tough for anyone to top.
Urban Legends
Politicians and thought leaders have spent decades demonizing American cities. urban-legends