Shining a Light on the World of Tiny Proteins

From viruses to humans, life makes microproteins that have evaded discovery until now.

Wall Street to Insurers: Keep Denying Care

UnitedHealth Group’s investors were profiting from its high denial rates. Now, they’re suing to ensure that doesn’t change.

The Shame of Israeli Medicine

Faced with the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and the systematic deprivation of Palestinians’ right to health, Israel’s medical establishment has disregarded the field’s most basic ethical principles.

Mamdani’s Economic Populism Closes Gap With Cuomo

Progressive candidates and researchers say his approach can win the U.S. back from Trumpism.

How the First Black Bank Was Looted

In the early days of the Gilded Age’s rush for profit, freed people’s savings were siphoned off by politically connected financiers. Justene Hill Edwards’s Savings and Trust uncovers how finance cloaked dispossession in the language of uplift.

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity

The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.

“No Kings” Protests Draw Crowds in Cities Across U.S.

In Greenfield Ma., a small city of 17,000 in rural western Massachusetts, 3000 people turned out for No Kings Day.

Why Did Israel Attack Iran Now?

Under any interpretation, Israel's attack is clearly illegal under international law, not that anyone seems to care anymore. Israel's attack on Iran is best understood as a continuation of its attempt to remake the Middle East through force.

Freedom of Movement and Global Apartheid

Most of the world agrees that apartheid inside a country’s borders is the epitome of injustice. Why, then, are we so ready to accept a global version of it?

Be Like Greta Thunberg

“If you, as a climate activist, don’t also fight for a free Palestine and an end to colonialism and oppression all over the world, then you should not be able to call yourself a climate activist“
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Culture

film

The IP Machine Laughs at Itself

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg mock Hollywood’s creative collapse in The Studio — while continuing to churn out sequels, reboots, and branded spin-offs.

tv

MobLand Is the Platonic Ideal of Dad TV

Brian Tallerico AV Club
We're all Harry Da Souza. There has been a lot of discussion about the success of what some have called “dad TV,” shows not watched exclusively by men but targeting them through casting, concept, and execution.

poetry

Where This Is Leading

Rebecca Foust
Taking George Orwell's classic text, 1984, as her foundation, poet Rebecca Foust asks where the current regime is taking us.

Labor

labor

Trump’s War on the Administrative State Is a Class War

John Hultgren Jacobin
Donald Trump’s attacks on environmental regulation and the administrative state are part of a right-wing class war — one that pits patriotic citizens against perceived liberal experts defending what’s left of the New Deal order.

labor

It’s About Policies, Not Political Parties or Politicians

Bobby Olvera, Jr., ILWU International President International Longshore and Warehouse Union
While we may be living in a very different world politically, the work of our union has not changed. The last three months have underscored the importance of solidarity and having strong unions in our communities.

Friday nite video

video

"Who'll Stand With Us?" | Dropkick Murphys

Dropkick Murphys music video for "Who'll Stand With Us?" from the forthcoming album 'For The People' out on streaming July 4, 2025, out on CD/LP October 10.

video

STRAW | Tyler Perry Movie

A single mother's (Taraji P. Henson) day spirals into chaos, she becomes the prime suspect in a crime she never meant to commit—and suddenly, her survival depends on the one thing she’s never been able to trust: the people around her. Streaming on Netflix.

video

I Love a Parade! (Trump Military Parade Song)

What do you get when you mix Harry Richman, a golden tank, Ivanka’s tugboat, nuclear missiles in glitter, and a dictator’s wave? A $40 million MAGA musical spectacular.