A New Plan To Fix Mexico’s Housing Crisis

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum wants to bring social housing back to Mexico City’s core. It may be the capital’s best shot at making affordability more than just a slogan.

Who Will the Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Be?

We are now in the midst of a outright coup against the Constitution, against the United States, and against our founding ideals. If we don't fight for and win the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, our democracy is dead.

Tax Day 2025: Your Tax Receipt

We compared taxes paid by the average taxpayer on a host of programs to the benchmark of our times — the price of a dozen eggs. In February 2025, the average price for a dozen eggs was $5.90, find out how much you might have paid for federal programs

Trump’s Trade War Is a Political Trap for Democrats

The president’s reckless tariffs are designed to goad his opponents into touting free trade and scoffing at the working class.

Media Bits and Bytes – April 15, 2025

Media caught in Trump’s net

‘Death Squad’ Dems Enable the Trump-Backed Slaughter

The truth is that a number of Democratic members of Congress, whom millions of people see as leading the resistance, actually ally with Trump on foreign policy.

This Week in People’s History, Apr 16–22, 2025

Demonstrators attempting to block a police motorcycle in downtown Washington, DC
What First Amendment? (2000), “Freedom Now in Vietnam” (1965), Saying ‘No’ to Colonialism (1955), If They Want War, Let Them Have It (1775), Impunity for Racist Threats (1965), McCarthyism Flops on Broadway (1955), Earth Day’s a Smash Hit (1970)

Trump Antidote: Act Like a University, Not a Business

Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement. Or else grovel before a mafia boss.

Union & Immigrant Rights Group Fight Deportation

“In his pursuit of the life promised by the American dream, Brother Kilmar was literally helping to build this great country. What did he get in return? Arrest and deportation to a nation whose prisons face outcry from human rights organizations."

Is Claudia Sheinbaum the Anti-Trump?

Last year was a bad one for incumbent political parties and for women. One country, however, bucked all these trends: Mexico, where Claudia Sheinbaum, won the presidency in a landslide.
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Culture

film

Frantz Fanon’s Algerian Years on Film

An interview with Jean-Claude Barny Jacobin
In French-ruled Algeria, Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist and an active member of the National Liberation Front. A new movie portrays his commitment to the anti-colonial struggle.

food

How To Fight Trump’s Attacks on Farmworkers

David Bacon The Nation
ICE is picking people up on warrants for detention across the country. ICE Director Tom Homan calls all undocumented immigrants criminals and therefore credible targets for deportation, no matter how many years they have lived in the country.

poetry

Thanksgiving Among the Almond Trees

Nels Goñi Christianson In the Black, In the Red: Poems of Profit $ Loss
California poet Nels Goñi Christianson describes two ways of celebrating Thanksgiving.

film

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Was Revolutionary Cuba’s Great Director

Michael Chanan Jacobin
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea brought the experience of postrevolutionary Cuba to the screen in classic movies like Memories of Underdevelopment and Strawberry and Chocolate. Alea’s committed, artistically dazzling work set a benchmark for political cinema.

Labor

labor

What Is DOGE Doing to Social Security?

Monique Morrissey Economic Policy Institute
Social Security faces a long-term shortfall that would be easy to fix if Republican lawmakers listened to voters. Republican and Democratic voters alike support addressing the shortfall through revenue increases, not benefit cuts.

labor

Unions Without Strikes

Hamilton Nolan Working in These Times
Military with batons in the foreground. Striking workers in the background w Today’s labor movement has been built to rely on forms of power that are all going away.

labor

American Library Association Sues To Stop Trump Cuts

Jennifer Schuessler New York Times
The American Library Association and a union representing more than 42,000 cultural workers nationwide have filed a lawsuit contesting the Trump administration’s deep cuts to the federal agency that supports the nation’s libraries.

labor

Clocking Out of the Second Shift

Jennifer C. Pan Jacobin
The official statistics show that gender gaps in the division of household labor have closed significantly over time. Why are so many women still so frustrated?

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