Obamacare and the End of Culture
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74 Articles by: Jonah Walters
Jonah Walters is currently the postdoctoral scholar in the BioCritical Studies Lab at UCLA’s Institute for Society and Genetics. He was a researcher at Jacobin from 2015 to 2020.
How to Kill a Bill
Inside the secret war of America’s most effective assassins: Harry and Louise.
Talkin’ For-Profit Medicine Blues
A century of hard living and hospital bills in American song.
Choose Your Own Adventure
When your God that fails is Pol Pot.
Ending the Opioid Crisis
Trump finally declared mass opioid addiction a national emergency. But he won’t take on big pharma and the social roots of the crisis.
Beware Your Local Food Cooperative
Produce is serious business. A history of the co-op wars.
A Hero and a Priest
Remembering Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, the Sandinista priest and one-time United Nations General Assembly president who died earlier this month.
“Just Cause” and Its Aftermath
With the death of Manuel Noriega, we look back at the bloody 1989 invasion of Panama and the imperial wars that it helped justify.
Red Is the New Red, White, and Blue
Chinese investments in Latin America have skyrocketed over the past ten years. But not everyone is thrilled about the new superpower in the region.
Remembering Sandino
The Nicaraguan nationalist was assassinated eighty-three years ago last month.
Blood on His Hands
As head of SOUTHCOM, Trump’s pick for Homeland Security secretary facilitated atrocities across the Americas.
Class Struggle Postponed
In the Colombian city of Barrancabermeja, a century of violence has disintegrated working-class power.
Can They Count?
Blaming third-party voters for Trump’s win isn’t just bad politics. It’s bad math.
Austerity With a Vacant Face
Capital’s third favorite party sounds a lot like its first.
The Liberty Swindle
The choice between Donald Trump and Gary Johnson is a choice between austerity with an angry face and austerity with a vacant one.
Revolt of the Elites
Patricio Guzmán’s The Battle of Chile captures the class war that culminated in Salvador Allende’s overthrow 44 years ago today.
Bleeding Heart Bullshit
A new book by a self-proclaimed “bleeding heart libertarian” reveals libertarianism’s bankrupt conscience.
Ortega’s Next Term
Daniel Ortega is still despised by the Right. But that doesn’t mean Nicaraguans have much to look forward to in his next term.
Not Our Independence Day
The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.
June 19 Should Be a National Holiday
On June 19, 1865, slavery ended in Texas. Juneteenth should be a national holiday.