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A declining empire can grow more violent, not less.
From Iran to Cuba and Venezuela, Trump has made US power more brazen — but the system runs deeper than one president.
Our fall issue examines “precision warfare,” sanctions, NATO, and dollar power: jacobin.com/issue/the-new-em…
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Sudan’s civil war is generating big profits for militia leaders and their allies outside the country.
@A_socialist1 writes that the profiteering is not an incidental feature of the war — it’s one of the main engines driving it. jacobin.com/2026/09/sudan-ci…
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The Left needs to be able to tell a legitimate grievance from partisan mudslinging — especially when health care for 15 million Californians is on the line.
The fight over Dave Regan, the architect of California’s billionaire wealth tax, is a test case. jacobin.com/2026/09/billiona…
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After a nearly two-year battle, 800 workers at a Walmart distribution center in Ontario won the first union contract at the company on the continent.
Their parent union, Unifor, has restarted organizing efforts across the province. jacobin.com/2026/09/walmart-…
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Europe’s far right talks endlessly about sovereignty.
When Donald Trump demanded support for war, it kissed the ring. jacobin.com/2026/09/europes-…
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When Saudi Arabia began intervening in Yemen’s civil war, its leaders expected to be able to impose their will on a much poorer neighbor.
More than a decade later, blowback from their Yemeni opponents is causing major disruption to the Saudi economy: jacobin.com/2026/09/yemen-ho…
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Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have been responsible for terrible atrocities against the civilian population.
They couldn’t function without the assistance of outside powers keen to profit from Sudan’s agony, especially the United Arab Emirates: jacobin.com/2026/09/sudan-ci…
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Medicaid cuts start hitting on October 1.
In California, there’s one way out: passing the billionaire wealth tax. But an internal labor fight could sink its chances: jacobin.com/2026/09/billiona…
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When 800 Walmart warehouse workers won a union two years ago, the company responded by raising wages for all its other logistic workers in Canada.
Now the unionized workers have a contract, which prevents their being excluded from future pay bumps: jacobin.com/2026/09/walmart-…
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Obama has done one public event for Democratic candidates in 2026.
Nothing to help Troy Jackson in Maine, where he's very popular, or Jon Ossoff, Abdul El-Sayed, or Sherrod Brown.
Instead, he's tempering the expectations of Democratic voters if they re-take Congress anyway.
Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."
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Evergreen. jacobin.com/2021/08/barack-o…
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The devil visits New York nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1nxeLMoOn…
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The parties that promised to put their nations first now line up behind Washington and Israel.
Jacopo Custodi on the far right’s imperial obedience: jacobin.com/2026/09/europes-…
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Saudi Arabia has spent years trying to build up its Yemeni allies against its main opponent, Ansar Allah.
Ansar Allah’s sudden military offensive over the last few weeks shows that this project has been a failure, despite all the money spent on it. jacobin.com/2026/09/yemen-ho…
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The militias wreaking havoc in Sudan also profit from plunder and can pay their recruits a wage much higher than any civilian job available to them.
This simple calculation is one of the most important factors behind the country’s horrifying war. jacobin.com/2026/09/sudan-ci…
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Part of California’s labor movement wants to tax billionaires to save health care for 15 million Californians.
Another part, close to Gov. Gavin Newsom, doesn’t — and is promoting suspiciously timed charges of abuse about a pro-tax union leader. jacobin.com/2026/09/billiona…
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At a Walmart distribution center in Mississauga, Ontario, workers have made history by winning the first-ever union contract with the logistics giant in North America.
Their fight has meant pay raises for the company’s workers across Canada. jacobin.com/2026/09/walmart-…
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Europe’s far right built its brand on national sovereignty.
Faced with Donald Trump’s and Israel’s war, it has chosen vassalage — leaving the antiwar Left as the real defender of independence. jacobin.com/2026/09/europes-…
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We don’t need to wait around for a potential artificial intelligence catastrophe sometime down the road.
We can already see the havoc it’s wreaking across our society right now. jacobin.com/2026/09/ai-harms…
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It is fashionable to mock Francis Fukuyama as an uncritical celebrant of neoliberal capitalism.
But “The End of History” offered a powerful analysis of the origins of right-wing populism that has proved prescient in the Donald Trump era. jacobin.com/2026/09/review-f…
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