What You Should Have Read in 2022
We published 2,500 original essays in 2022. Here’s a recap in case you missed one or two of them.
283 Article(s) by: Editors
The Best Books We Read in 2022
Jacobin staffers and contributors reflect on the best books we read this year.
Class Conscience
Whatever their professed values, when it comes to the ballot box, rich people are out for themselves.
Issue 47: Letters
Finally, some good letters. We were about to give up.
Jacobin’s Promise: a Vote for Jacobin Is a Vote for You.
Act now, before it’s too late to save America.
Ballot Blocks
Every year, it gets harder to vote. We have our elected officials to thank for that.
Issue 47: Misery Index
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
A Guide to Election Polling Terms
A guide to election polling terms.
Reality TV Democracy
America’s favorite television arcs toward autocracy.
Proletarian Portfolios
Union revenues and assets are on the rise — union membership is not.
A Strike for All Seasons
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Queen Elizabeth II’s Ghosts
In between smiling, waving, and running up a $400 million annual bill, the late Queen Elizabeth II was the face of some pretty bad stuff during her seven-decade reign.
The Wrong Side of the Law
Legislation and case law targeting leftists is something like an American tradition.
Issue 47: The Internet Speaks
If you have anything nice to say, slide into our DMs.
Broken Records
If you can’t carry a tune, you can’t take the White House. Here are some of the more memorable campaign songs in American history.
Constitutional Calcification
The process for constitutional amendment is an uphill battle. Since 1789, almost 12,000 amendments have been proposed — but only 27 have passed. It’s been 50 years since one has made its way to the states for ratification.
Posting Cringe
Dispatches from Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post.