Iowa Dems Win: A 20-Point Swing in Trump District

In a race that bodes well for Democrats' hopes in 2026, Catelin Drey won by championing "affordable housing, childcare, and healthcare, strong public schools, and bodily autonomy," wrote one progressive Iowa journalist.

Grand Jury Refuses to Indict 'Sandwich Man'

It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who were assigned to bring charges against those arrested after President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents to Washington.

Donald Trump’s Madcap Crusade Against Wind

A wind project off Rhode Island is more than 80 percent completed. Trump just stopped it in its tracks.

Why Trump’s ‘Anti-Woke’ Attack on Smithsonian Matters

The president’s assault on US museums, education and memory is a critical dimension of his fascist aims

Global Left Midweek — August 27, 2025

Struggles making history

The Low-Wage 100

Starbucks takes the prize for the most obscene corporate pay disparities of 2024. But jaw-dropping gaps are the norm among America’s leading low-wage corporations.

Killing Medics and Journalists

Israel’s Monday morning strike on a Gaza hospital—a so-called “double-tap” assault—was designed for maximum killing. When is enough?

Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

The Trump administration is refusing to enforce a Biden-era rule limiting junk short-term health plans that are notorious for charging more or denying coverage altogether for people with conditions like asthma, diabetes, and cancer.

The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence

For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 26, 2025

A busy summer
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Culture

books

The New Samizdat

Lee Rossi Portside
These two anthologies showcase poets that are responding to the anxieties of our time.

tv

PragerU Wants to Propagandize to Your Kids

Lucy Dean Stockton Jacobin
Right-wing media outlet PragerU is known for its misleading viral videos that it has long created for teens and adults. The operation is increasingly seeking to reach children, hoping to fill the Sesame Street–sized hole left by the defunding of PBS.

poetry

Rogues in a Nation

Robert Burns
Scotland's national poet, Rabbie Burns, criticized the members of the Scottish aristocracy who in 1707 signed the Act of Union thereby ending Scottish home rule.

books

Why Architecture and Urban Space Are Always Political

George Themistokleous LSE Review of Books
The contributors to this latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics offer a wide ranging discussion about social justice-oriented responses to the politics of our constructed, lived environment.

Labor

labor

Labor for Zohran Broadens Support for Mamdani Among City Workers

Duncan Freeman The Chief
Labor for Zohran was created by J.P Patafio, a Transport Workers Union Local 100 official, in the days after the primary as a way to unite people invested in promoting Mamdani’s candidacy and policies across unions.

labor

The Fifth Circuit Ruled That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional

Matt Bruenig Jacobin
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with SpaceX earlier this week, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board’s current structure is unconstitutional. The decision will keep the agency hamstrung until the case makes its way to the Supreme Co

labor

Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions

Matt Ford The New Republic
The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.

Friday nite video

White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off

Officials confirmed the White House’s Transgender Alert System was triggered this morning after infrared estrogen sensors in the West Wing detected a large spike in gender fluidity dangerously close to the Oval Office.