Daniel Denvir
Jacobin
Providence, RI, United States
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Bernie Must Retool His Campaign Organization, Not Dismantle It
Bernie Sanders has officially suspended his campaign, but its infrastructure is our best hope at organizing to win a just response to the coronavirus pandemic. Bernie can’t dismantle that infrastructure now — we need it more than ever. → Read More
How Bernie Should Talk About Borders
Bernie Sanders’s recent comments on open borders played into a right-wing trap. But his strong record on immigration suggests he can advance a program for immigrant rights that sees immigrants as key players in winning a society for the many, not the few. → Read More
The Case Against ‘Border Security’
Voters want more open borders, not a ‘smart wall.’ Democrats should listen. → Read More
The Roots of Trump’s Immigration Barbarity
The outrage over Trump’s heartless family separation policy provides an opportunity to reverse the bipartisan consensus that has long victimized immigrants. → Read More
Deporting people made Central America’s gangs. More deportation won’t help.
“MS-13 is one of the most vicious criminal gangs in this country today,” said Attorney General Jeff Sessions. But U.S. policy helped form transnational gangs such as MS-13. → Read More
A New Day in Philadelphia
A left-wing civil rights lawyer is within reach of becoming Philadelphia's district attorney. Can he use the office to roll back mass incarceration? → Read More
Picking up the Threads of Struggle
Two years ago, the Baltimore Uprising pointed the way towards a new, militant antiracist struggle. Today, the young movement must adapt to the Trump era. → Read More
Welfare for Everyone
> The new issue of Jacobin, “Journey to the Dark Side,” is out now. Subscribe for the first time at a discount. The Obama administration’s expansion of Medicaid was a rare strengthening of an otherwise battered safety net. Obamacare, for all of its failures, expanded the health insurance program to cover millions of Americans. It would have counted many more beneficiaries had Republican… → Read More
Why Cops Don't Get Charged with Crimes When They Lie
Even when police cross the "blue wall of silence" and tell on fellow officers who beat suspects and lie about it, some prosecutors don't know or don't care. → Read More
Why Cops Don't Get Charged with Crimes When They Lie
Even when police cross the "blue wall of silence" and tell on fellow officers who beat suspects and lie about it, some prosecutors don't know or don't care. → Read More
America’s Durable Monstrosity
> The new issue of Jacobin is out now. To mark its release, we’re offering discounted introductory subscriptions. A ray of sunshine recently poked through the otherwise gloomy holiday headlines: “US prison population falling as crime rates stay low.” The prison population has indeed fallen, and crime rates are still down. But while the crime that politicians exploited to create mass… → Read More
Two Years After Ferguson, Missouri Cops Are Accused of Shaking Down the Poor
"I don't want to be a Michael Brown," one plaintiff in a new class-action lawsuit told us. → Read More
Two Years After Ferguson, Missouri Cops Are Accused of Shaking Down the Poor
"I don't want to be a Michael Brown," one plaintiff in a new class-action lawsuit told us. → Read More
If the evidence is unfit, you must acquit: Prosecutors are fighting to keep flawed forensic evidence in the courtroom
Much of the forensic evidence used in convictions has been found unreliable. Prosecutors want to use it anyway → Read More
Betraying Snowden: There’s a special place in journalism hell for The Washington Post editorial board
The Post editorial board came out against pardoning Edward Snowden, whose leaks won the paper a Pulitzer → Read More
The worst kind of cop out: Of course the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Trump
By backing Trump, the National Fraternal Order of Police embraces racial fear-mongering disguised as law and order → Read More
A Better Gun Control
The only kind of gun control we have in the United States is the kind that locks up black people. We need an alternative. → Read More
Actually, Many Trump Voters Are in One Basket and It's Both Racist and Economically Frustrated
What Hillary got wrong in her controversial "basket of deplorables" slam of Trump voters. → Read More
Hillary Clinton Is Tossing a Lifeline to Down-Ballot GOPers, but Is Pulling Punches Against Conservatism a Smart Idea?
On Thursday, Clinton's campaign launched Together for America, an outreach effort created specifically to attract GOP defectors. → Read More
Cease All Trump Sanctimony: Republicans Want to Disavow a Monster They Created Because It Is Devouring Them Alive
It's tempting to think that Trump has finally gone too far, but he's just giving his backers exactly what they want. → Read More