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Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man

Carl Beijer Jacobin
Hulk Hogan, who died this week at age 71, was the most important professional wrestler who ever lived. He was also a terrible human being.

Immigrant Workers in Italy Strike for a 40-Hour Week

An interview with Sarah Caudiero Jacobin
Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigrant workforce.

In a Time of Peace

Ilya Kaminsky
Ukanian-American poet Ilya Kaminsky examines the way complicity with an authoritarian regime can corrupt a whole society.

Playing With Academic Fire

Hatim Kanaaneh Jadaliyya
This study of three late 1940s kibbutzim, writes reviewer Kanaaneh, “analyzes how these so-called leftist settlements” related to their Palestinian neighbors in “the land and the farming villages that were then wiped out of existence.”

Mamdani Returns From Uganda and Visits Slain Officer’s Family

Emma G. Fitzsimmons The New York Times
Mr. Mamdani will address the shooting at a news conference with two groups whose members had been killed in the attack: 32BJ SEIU and the Bangladeshi American Police Association. The press conference will be held at the 32BJ headquarters.

The Undeniable Greatness of Jaws

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Jaws is rightly celebrated as a landmark, generation-defining hit. But it’s not sufficiently recognized as a great 1970s film, exemplifying that rocky decade’s political ire, acerbic social critique, and the lingering practices of realist cinema movi