In These Times

"Colonizing the Atmosphere": How Rich, Western Nations Drive the Climate Crisis

New analysis finds the Global North is responsible for 92% of all excess global carbon dioxide emissions, while the Global South bears the brunt of the devastation.

Sarah Lazare

A New Crisis Hotline Could Serve As an Alternative to Policing in Chicago

Trump’s False Claims of Rampant Voter Fraud Draw From a Well-worn Racist Playbook

Unite Here Is 85% Unemployed and Still Fighting Like Hell

All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask Teacher Unions.

Lois Weiner and Jackson Potter

Working In These Times

Healthcare Workers Are Leading the Largest Strike Ever at the University of Illinois-Chicago

Meet the Students Trying to Organize the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union

Standing Rock's Enduring Message: "Let Us Teach You How To Live on This Land"

Maximillian Alvarez

Time For Unions to Give the Democratic Party an Ultimatum

Special Investigation

The Catholic Church Siphoned Away $30 Million Paid to Native People for Stolen Land

Free, government-funded schools were rarely built on reservations—meaning that for many Native families, Catholic mission schools were the only option.

Mary Annette Pember

Up for Debate: Police Unions

The Thing About Police Unions

Adeshina Emmanuel

The Central Issue Is Police Repression, Not Police Unions

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

I’m Proud That My Union Just Urged the AFL-CIO to Kick Out Police Unions

Introducing “In The Gap,” a Podcast About the Gender Pay Gap and Black Women

Chandra Thomas Whitfield

Rural America In These Times

‘People Are Still Putting Their Bodies on the Line to Stop this Pipeline’

A court found that the Dakota Access Pipeline was built unlawfully. These water protectors are still in prison for trying to stop it.

Joseph Bullington

The EPA Responded to a Respiratory Virus by Relaxing Pollution Controls

Victor B. Flatt and Joel A. Mintz

Healthy Food Comes from Healthy Land, Not from Laboratories