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

Targeted, Imprisoned, Deported, Dead: How ICE’s Detention Can Be Deadly to Migrants

ViewpointRural America

No Parks for the Poor

Joseph Bullington

Unite Here Is 85% Unemployed and Still Fighting Like Hell

Working In These Times

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

Lois Weiner and Jackson Potter

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

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