Nach fünf Monaten Verhandlungen hat Österreich endlich wieder eine Regierung, und zwar ohne die rechtsextreme FPÖ. Doch mit ihrem angekündigten Kürzungspaket könnte sie den Weg ebnen für eine noch stärkere Rechte in der nahen Zukunft, meint Martin Konecny von der KPÖ heute bei Weekly. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel, Podcasts und Videos – alles …

Featuring TrueAnon hosts Brace Belden and Liz Franczak on our freakish and reactionary tech oligarchy. Musk and friends built a technological infrastructure that has warped everyone’s minds, including their own. Now they’re seizing the state. The hideous AI “art” we discuss:https://bit.ly/4ksG1aMhttp://bit.ly/3DmDfTD Support The Dig at Patreon.com/…

A flu-hit Matthew reveals the true villain of the Luka trade, why All-Star Games can never be what they're supposed to be, how the Yankees beard policy is just another beard and more. Then it's a conversation with soccer coach Mike Idland about sharing live sports with your kids and what a coach gets up to during their alleged "off-season."…

Die Ökonomin Clara Mattei hat mit ihrem Buch »Die Ordnung des Kapitals« eine herausragende Studie verfasst. Mattei zeigt, wie die Austeritätspolitik nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg zu einem weltweiten technokratischen Projekt wurde, um den Kapitalismus alternativlos zu machen und seine internen Klassenbeziehungen zu zementieren. Sie sprach bei Jacobin Ta…

Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union, talks about worker-led organizing at Amazon, Starbucks, and beyond. Molly O'Neal, Quincy Institute fellow, analyzes the recent German election. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archi…

Jacobin Radio presents a webinar, moderated by Suzi and sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Ukraine Solidarity Network, marking the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just days after this discussion, the Trump administration laid out a deal that trades an end to the fighting for U.S. economic control over Ukraine’s minerals without…

Das Ergebnis der Bundestagswahl ist in vielerlei Hinsicht ein Desaster, doch das unerwartet starke Ergebnis der Linkspartei lässt immerhin hoffen, dass eine rechte Hegemonie in Deutschland nicht unausweichlich ist. Wie die Partei sich in so kurzer Zeit umorientieren konnte und welchen Weg sie nun einschlägt, erzählt Martin Neise vom Karl-Liebknecht…

Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke, the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics, and the centrality of various oppressions to the class domination of capital and struggles against it. Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig Read Mike’s article “The Problem of Class Ab…

Among the many government agencies facing cuts from President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, USAID has garnered wide support in the media. But for whatever humanitarian good it’s done in the world, the agency has played a role in US imperialism. In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber examines the true history of USAI…

On February 21, Suzi talked to Zakhar Popóvych, a Ukrainian researcher and activist in Kyiv with roots in labor and socialist organizing, and Ilya Budraitskis, a Russian historian and political theorist now in exile, about Trump’s foreign policy moves regarding Ukraine on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion. The Trump administrati…

Anatol Lieven looks at the global dimensions of Trumpism. Quinn Slobodian, who wrote a recent article for the New York Review of Books, muses on whether Trump is a neoliberal and examines the three major strands of DOGE-ism. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the…

For now, the ceasefire deal between Hamas and the Israeli government appears to be holding. However, Donald Trump has openly proposed the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Trump has used the destruction of Gaza with American-made bombs as a rationale for his plan. Paul Rogers, emeritus professor of peace studies at the University of Bradford and the author…

Egal wie genau die Wahlen ausgehen am Sonntag, scheint eine Regierung unter CDU-Führung so gut wie sicher. Heute bei Weekly sprechen wir mit Lukas Scholle, Chefredakteur von Surplus Magazin, über die Wirtschaftspläne von Friedrich Merz und weshalb sie auch in einer Großen Koalition umsetzbar sein könnten. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel, Podcast…

Featuring Danielle Carr on the history and present state of American unwellness and how that’s been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social media. We trace the rise of psychiatry as a Gilded Age human science, the disastrous contradictions of asylum deinstitutionalization, the invention of neu…

Our theme for today’s program is resistance in the time of monsters: resistance to the Trump/Musk wrecking ball that threatens the well-being of millions of people here and across the globe. Their actions are illegal, have provoked a constitutional crisis, and constitute a technical coup. At the same time, the Trump/Musk rampage has galvanized resi…

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò picks apart the contradictory strands of the DEI obsession. Sophia Rosenfeld, author of the book The Age of Choice, explores the history of that concept over the last few centuries. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find t…

Nach Jahren auf Talfahrt zählt die Linkspartei plötzlich mehr Mitglieder als je zuvor. Aber kann die neue Dynamik halten? Und wie kann sie die Fehler und Sackgassen der Vergangenheit vermeiden? Darüber spricht Parteiurgestein Gregor Gysi diese Woche bei Jacobin Weekly. JACOBIN produziert täglich Artikel, Podcasts und Videos – alles für Dich völlig …

Within weeks of assuming the presidency, Donald Trump has instituted tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China. Trump has touted protectionism as a way of supporting American workers. In this episode of Confronting Capitalism, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber and Jacobin contributor Melissa Naschek discuss how nineteenth and twentieth-century protectionist…

Kristin Du Mez, author of the book Jesus and John Wayne, looks at the world of Christian nationalism. Jennifer Middlestadt, who wrote a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, speaks about the “sovereigntism” guiding the foreign policy of Trump et al. Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their…

Featuring Chris Newman on Trump's far-right anti-migrant agenda and Democrats' cruel and stupid complicity. Read All-American Nativism versobooks.com/products/704-all-american-nativism Read Dan's essay on Gaza and migration politics in n+1 nplusonemag.com/issue-48/politics/do-border Trump's immigration executive orders propublica.org/article/donald…

Last year, Martin Empson joined Long Reads to speak about the German Peasants’ War, Europe’s biggest social revolt before the French Revolution. Martin returns to talk about what happened next. After the revolt was crushed, radical religious tendencies became a vehicle for social discontent. The most famous of those tendencies was known as Anabapti…