December 2016 Volume 40, Issue 12

December 2016

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Feature

Welcome to the Resistance In These Times Editors

The Democratic Party Has Failed—We Need a Radical Vision to Defeat Trumpism Zack Exley

A Message to Trump: We’re Not Going Back in the Shadows Prerna Lal

The Rush To Normalize Trump Rick Perlstein

The Woman Who Might Have Been President Susan J. Douglas

An Indigenous Organizer at Standing Rock Speaks on Police Repression, Climate Chaos and Donald Trump Dayton Martindale

Dispatch

The Fight For Free College Moves to the States Jeff Schuhrke

Why Fair Scheduling Could Be Labor’s Next Big Fight Jonathan Timm

Culture

This Christmas, Go See a German Comedy About Consulting. No, Really. Michael Atkinson

The Problem With Cancer Memoirs Margaret Garb

Sci-Fi Iraq: Authors Envision Their Country in 2103, a Century After the U.S. Invasion M. Lynx Qualey

Brexit, Trump and What We’ve Failed To Learn From the 1930s Jane Miller

Thomas Friedman’s Latest Book Is a Tour Through His Troubled, Neoliberal Mind Chris Lehmann

Investigation

At Angola Prison, Getting Sick Can Be a Death Sentence Katie Rose Quandt and James Ridgeway

Welcome to the Resistance

All Americans now face threats under Trump. The question is how to respond.

In These Times Editors

The Democratic Party Has Failed—We Need a Radical Vision to Defeat Trumpism

The neoliberal establishment couldn’t stop Trump. A campaign for real economic justice can.

Zack Exley

A Message to Trump: We’re Not Going Back in the Shadows

Undocumented immigrants are ready to mobilize and resist.

Prerna Lal

The Rush To Normalize Trump

The mainstream media is woefully unprepared to grapple with the hatred and trauma of this election.

Rick Perlstein

The Woman Who Might Have Been President

It's time to talk about sexism.

Susan J. Douglas

An Indigenous Organizer at Standing Rock Speaks on Police Repression, Climate Chaos and Donald Trump

The water protectors at Standing Rock are still defiant in opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Dayton Martindale

This Christmas, Go See a German Comedy About Consulting. No, Really.

Filmmaker Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann takes a wise and whimsical look at the struggles women face in the corporate world.

Michael Atkinson

InvestigationGoodman Institute

At Angola Prison, Getting Sick Can Be a Death Sentence

A 6-month investigation into the largest maximum-security state prison in the country.

Katie Rose Quandt and James Ridgeway

The Problem With Cancer Memoirs

Popular accounts ignore the underlying race and class dynamics that determine vulnerability to the disease.

The Fight For Free College Moves to the States

How student organizers and a state representative are campaigning to eliminate tuition in Illinois.

Sci-Fi Iraq: Authors Envision Their Country in 2103, a Century After the U.S. Invasion

In a new collection, Iraqi writers explore their nation's future, and ridicule their former occupiers.

Brexit, Trump and What We’ve Failed To Learn From the 1930s

Perhaps dark undercurrents rest beneath every society, waiting for a depression or a demagogue to unleash them.

Why Fair Scheduling Could Be Labor’s Next Big Fight

A series of citywide ordinances are taking aim at erratic and unpredictable scheduling.

Thomas Friedman’s Latest Book Is a Tour Through His Troubled, Neoliberal Mind

We read 500 pages of corporate platitudes and ungainly metaphor so you don't have to.

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