# Jacobin

> Jacobin is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in United States. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Left**.

- **Domain:** jacobin.com
- **Website:** https://jacobin.com
- **Country:** United States
- **Region:** North America
- **Language:** English
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Left
- **Founded:** 2010

## About

The magazine most committed to abolishing capitalism is also one of America's fastest-growing paid-subscription successes, and it treats the contradiction as an asset. Jacobin covers labor, electoral socialism and global left politics at the pace of a pamphlet and the production values of a fashion quarterly. Readers come for the argument; the design is what keeps them paying.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Privately held; founded and owned by Bhaskar Sunkara; operates independently of corporate media groups
- **Funding:** Subscription-based revenue with reader donations; no corporate advertising dependency; reported revenues approximately 2.9 million USD by 2021
- **Focus areas:** Labor, electoral socialism, political economy, US and international left politics, class analysis, culture and theory


## What the position means

TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding
and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Latest headlines

Read from this source's RSS feed. Follow the link to the newsroom that published it.

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## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-04-14. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 8 (3 themes).

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