From JacobinIndividualism and Privacy In 2018, privacy advocates applauded as the European Union’s enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), touting it as a model for other liberal democracies intent on defending individual rights in the digital age. The GDPR requires companies … [Read more...] about The Problem With “Privacy”
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Joe Biden Is Freezing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Out of His Cabinet
From JacobinIn the famous scene from Casablanca, the corrupt local prefect of police, Captain Louis Renault, suddenly demands that the Café Américain, owned and operated by Humphrey Bogart’s Rick Blaine, be closed. “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Is Freezing Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Out of His Cabinet
Joe Biden Should Absolutely Erase Student Debt via Executive Order
From JacobinAs a senator, Joe Biden helped lenders make it almost impossible to discharge student debt in bankruptcy … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Should Absolutely Erase Student Debt via Executive Order
Trump Is Attempting a Brazen, Anti-Democratic Power Grab. And It Has Nothing to Do With the Election
From JacobinNativist Reapportionment Theory Redux By the late 1970s, only a decade after the legislative reapportionment revolution, nativist organizations began developing a renewed theory of apportionment. Organizations like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and its legal … [Read more...] about Trump Is Attempting a Brazen, Anti-Democratic Power Grab. And It Has Nothing to Do With the Election
No, Medicare for All Didn’t Sink Democrats in 2020
From JacobinMedicare for All in Trump Country The case that socialist ideas sunk Democrats in 2020 is undermined by the fact that every single cosponsor of House Progressive Caucus cochair Pramila Jayapal’s 2019 Medicare for All legislation won reelection this year, the only exceptions being … [Read more...] about No, Medicare for All Didn’t Sink Democrats in 2020