Shōgun Exposes the Brutal Realities of Colonization
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by Joe Mayall
2h ago
FX’s miniseries Shōgun takes place at the time of first contact between European colonizers and indigenous Japanese people. In the process, it shows something rarely seen on screen: the shocking hubris of the colonizer and dehumanization of the colonized. Anna Sawai in Shōgun. (Katie Yu / FX) In just a few weeks since its debut, FX’s miniseries Shōgun has thrilled its audience and become the number one streamed show in America. Based on the novel by James Clavell, Shōgun tells the story of a power struggle for control of feudal Japan when Europeans make first contact with the island. The Port ..read more
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The Road House Remake Is Actually a Great Time
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by Eileen Jones
3h ago
Do you ever hear about a new movie like the Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal, assume it’s terrible, mentally prepare your vicious takedown of it — and then watch it? And it’s actually. . . good? Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House. (Amazon MGM Studios) I had the damnedest thing happened to me last night — I watched the new movie version of Road House on Amazon Prime, and I enjoyed it. I’d been so sure of my plan to see it, hate it, and slam it in a review. Another remake in an endless stream of them, for one thing. And the old 1989 Road House has a special place in the action film pantheo ..read more
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“Debt Is to Capitalism What Hell Is to Christianity”
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by Yanis Varoufakis
3h ago
Yanis Varoufakis’s new film series explains how elites used the financial crisis to terrorize Europe’s populations into submission. In an interview, he tells Jacobin why the anti-austerity movement failed and why the center is converging with the far right. Yanis Varoufakis speaking during a news conference in Luxembourg, June 18, 2015. (Jasper Juinen / Bloomberg via Getty Images) “Debt is to capitalism what hell is to Christianity: unpleasant, and essential.” Speaking in his new documentary series In the Eye of the Storm, Yanis Varoufakis explains how elites have used capitalism’s own struct ..read more
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The Alleged Sexual Assaults on Rikers Island Are Shocking
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by Alex N. Press
21h ago
Me Too was often portrayed as solely focused on elite women’s concerns. That would be news to the prisoners at New York’s Rikers Island who have used a Me Too–inspired law to seek justice for over 700 alleged sexual assaults by guards in the jail. A New York City Department of Correction officer at Rikers Island. (James Keivom / New York Daily News / Tribune News Service via Getty Images) In recent years, those eager to dismiss the issues raised by the Me Too movement have fixated on the phenomenon’s elite origins. After all, the outcry started with a 2017 New York Times investigation into th ..read more
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Bed-Stuy Socialist Eon Huntley Is Running for State Assembly
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by Eon Tyrell Huntley
21h ago
Socialist and third-generation Brooklynite Eon Tyrell Huntley is running to represent Bed-Stuy in the New York State Assembly. Jacobin spoke to him about his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn and his campaign. Eon Tyrell Huntley is running to represent New York State Assembly District 56 in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights. (Eon for Assembly) In 2018, the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America elected Julia Salazar to the New York State Senate. Since then, NYC-DSA has elected seven more socialists to the state legislature (alongside one from DSA’s Mid-Hudson Valley chapter ..read more
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The Second City Union’s Long Fight for a Contract
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by Bina Martin, Piero Procaccini, Edmund O’Brien
21h ago
Unionized teachers at the famous improv-comedy institution the Second City went two years without a contract — until they threatened a strike and won an agreement this past January. We talked to three Second City faculty about the long contract fight. The Second City theater in Chicago, photographed on Thursday, October 29, 2020. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images) The Association of International Comedy Educators (AICE) is the union representing faculty, music directors, and facilitators at the Second City, the famous improvisational-comedy enterprise ..read more
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Jerome Powell’s Fingerprints Are on the Next Banking Crisis
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by Kenny Stancil
1d ago
One year after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is obstructing the finalization of tougher capital requirements for banks — and increasing the chances of more turbulence. US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC, on March 20, 2024. (Sha Hanting / China News Service / VCG via Getty Images) It’s been roughly a year since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank — the second-, third-, and fourth-largest bank failures by assets in US history — and yet very little has ch ..read more
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Cargo Giant in Baltimore Crash Silenced Whistleblowers
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by David Sirota, Helen Santoro, Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton, Katya Schwenk
1d ago
The company responsible for the Baltimore bridge collapse blocked its employees from reporting safety concerns to the US Coast Guard. It is now being sanctioned by federal regulators for violating a whistleblower protection law. Collision of the cargo ship Dali with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 27, 2024. (Scott Olson / Getty Images) The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety concerns to the US Coast Guard — in ..read more
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Don’t Write Off US Union Organizing Before the CIO
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by Dorothy Sue Cobble
1d ago
The Congress of Industrial Organizations is often understood to the be the innovative, solidarity-based alternative to the American Federation Labor, its immediate predecessor. But the CIO had limits too — and the AFL had more to offer than it gets credit for. Truck owner drivers organizing with the Congress for Industrial Organization in Seattle, Washington, ca. 1935. (Underwood Archives / Getty Images) This interview was conducted for Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO, a podcast from the Center for Work and Democracy and Jacobin magazine about the Congress of Industrial Org ..read more
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The National Review Wants You to Work Till You Drop
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by Luke Savage
2d ago
Only a select few get sinecures at conservative magazines like the National Review. Those few don’t have to work much, but they must carry out a key task: denouncing any effort to make life more bearable for the vast majority of us working stiffs. A worker cuts lumber on a construction site in Miami on September 24, 2021. ( Matias J. Ocner / Miami Herald / Tribune News Service via Getty Images) In 1956, a utopia-minded politician predicted a future in which Americans could work less and the forty-hour week would become a thing of the past. “These are not dreams or idle boasts,” declared the M ..read more
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