New Future

Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has paired economics with migration policy in her grand plan for strengthening Italian ties to Africa. It’s won the backing of European right-wingers — but a series of scandals show the plan is weaker than it might seem.

Argentinian president Javier Milei faces his biggest crisis yet over his promotion of a crypto scam. As leaders on the Latin American right distanced themselves from the anarcho-capitalist, Elon Musk took the opportunity to reaffirm their bond.

Printed out of a cattle barn in Missouri, Anvil published some of the biggest leftist writers of the 1930s, including Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. Its popular vision for a multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent today.

Donald Trump’s plan to forcibly evict Palestinians from Gaza may have been the product of a sudden whim, but that doesn’t mean he’ll discard it easily. Determined resistance from Arab and European states will be needed to block this catastrophic scheme.

Credit Suisse is currently under investigation by the US Senate for obstructing investigations into its servicing of Nazi-linked clients. But the bank is far from alone: many German firms have never given up the monetary fruits of Nazi collaboration.

The tenuous liberal democratic frameworks established in the 1990s after the civil wars in Guatemala and El Salvador are long exhausted. What will come next in both countries is uncertain.

Despite the organizing of thousands of federal workers and a growing grassroots opposition to Donald Trump, the Democratic Party leadership refuses to offer any serious opposition to a billionaire coup.

Federal and state governments are now using AI for everything from determining eligibility for welfare benefits to predicting child abuse and criminal activity. Critics say faulty algorithms are ruining people’s lives and leaving victims little recourse.

Ahead of Sunday’s German election, left-wing party Die Linke has enjoyed a surprise resurgence. Longtime leader Gregor Gysi told Jacobin about what’s changed — and how a new generation of activists can take the party forward.

The Trump administration has just paused an initiative aimed at increasing compensation for airline passengers when carriers lose their luggage or overbook flights.

Donald Trump is demanding $500 billion in mineral riches from Ukraine in exchange for supporting its war effort. The bid to loot Ukraine’s resources makes a mockery of calls to defend its national sovereignty.

A focus on GDP and national accounts gives a misleading picture of US economic power. In the age of globalization, production can be based in countries like China while most of the profits flow back to American firms, reinforcing US economic hegemony.

Anti-immigration politicians around Europe have increasingly outsourced border policing to authoritarian states in Africa. Britain’s Labour Party has followed the same approach.

Brazil has charged ex-president Jair Bolsonaro with conspiring to murder President Lula da Silva and stage a military coup. It’s a serious blow to the far right, but unless the material conditions of the majority improve, Bolsonarismo will remain a threat.