Clashes between Pakistan’s military and Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers took a bloody turn this week as an air strike in Kabul ...

Every year, an algorithm assigns thousands of medical students to residencies they can’t leave, can’t negotiate with, and can’t refuse. The Match system creates a captive workforce that stiffs ...

Amid the horrors of war, it’s always tempting for some on the Left to stake out more and more radical sloganeering. This was ...

Now is the moment for a presidential candidate who commits to cutting off all aid to Israel — whether it’s military or nonmilitary.

There is little sign that Israel is achieving its war aims against Iran. But Israel is the only state in the region with nuclear weapons — and it may use them if it feels like it has run out of ...

At the end of the Gilded Age, Edwin Markham’s poem “The Man with the Hoe” became an ideological litmus test, polarizing the ...

Reminders of Him is exactly the movie novelist Colleen Hoover set out to make — which is the problem. Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers star in Reminders of Him. (Universal Pictures) Jacobin‘s special ...

First-round results suggest the French left can hold its ground in this month’s local elections. This positive outcome comes despite a campaign defined by an acrimonious civil war between the ...

Vilfredo Pareto once observed that history was a “graveyard of aristocracies” as ruling elites gradually become decadent, depraved, and dysfunctional. The contemporary United States is a disturbingly ...

At a time of profound unrest and the launch of an insane new war, Hollywood mostly stuck to its “keep politics out” mandate at this year’s Academy Awards. Javier Bardem, however, stood firm: no to war ...

In 1984, a white man named Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed black youths on a New York City subway train. The tabloids hailed him as a fed-up everyman — rhetoric that permeated the culture and ...

For many in the United States, life is bleak — so bleak that some look to China and see an alternative, decently functioning society that doesn’t allow its citizens to fall below a “kill line.” ...