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USPS Privatization Would Cost Rural America More Than Mail

Emily Hilliard Jacobin
Rural postal workers don’t just deliver mail. They put out fires, help elderly people who’ve fallen, and ensure veterans receive medication during storms. Trump’s proposed USPS privatization threatens these care networks in areas already lacking serv

US Pop Culture Has Long Raged Against Health Care Injustice

David K. Seitz Jacobin
The memes celebrating Luigi Mangione are far from novel: they represent a long tradition of American popular culture voicing outrage at the injustices of our health care system, from Dog Day Afternoon to Star Trek: Voyager to John Q.

Organizing the Battery Belt

Amos Barshad Jacobin
In deep-red Hardin County, Kentucky, workers are trying to unionize a new electric vehicle battery plant. If Donald Trump scraps the IRA, it may cost thousands of his supporters safe, well-paying jobs.

Can the Progressive Caucus Take Democrats in a New Direction?

Christopher D. Cook interview with Representative Greg Casar The Progressive
"I believe in fighting for vulnerable people, reproductive rights and climate action. But we won’t have the numbers in office to protect the vulnerable if we don’t fix Democrats’ loss of trust among a lot of working class people."

It Was an Ambush

Tom Nichols The Atlantic
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.