May 2018 Volume 42, Issue 05

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Viewpoint

Say It Ain’t Joe: Why Anointing Biden for 2020 Is a Terrible Idea Joel Bleifuss

Tariffs Aren’t the Best Way To Protect U.S. Steelworkers. Global Solidarity Is. Katy Fox-Hodess

A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

How Tariffs Are Playing Into Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda Tobita Chow

Feature

The Visa Loophole That Big Ag Construction Firms Love To Exploit Stephen Franklin et al.

Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration Dayton Martindale

West Virginia Showed How Necessary—And Difficult—Striking Is Kate Aronoff

The DCCC’s Long, Ugly History of Sabotaging Progressives Branko Marcetic

Dispatch

This Sheriff Was Booted by DHS for Racism. Now Trump Wants To Enlist Him in Deportations. Jordan Green

This Union Nurse and Outspoken Progressive Could Become Iowa’s Next Governor Theo Anderson

These Community Activists Won Bail Reform. Now They Have To Force Judges To Comply. Alex V. Hernandez

Culture

What Noam Chomsky Got Right About NAFTA In These Times Editors

Universal Basic Income: A Primer Dayton Martindale

A Middle America You’ll Never See in the Coastal Media Jessa Crispin

An Ode to Sharp-Tongued Women, From Dorothy Parker to Susan Sontag Laura Tanenbaum

Barbara Ehrenreich Calls BS on the Immortality Industry Jane Miller

The Visa Loophole That Big Ag Construction Firms Love To Exploit

How hog barn builders are importing labor at low wages and leaving local workers in the dust.

Stephen Franklin et al.

Kim Stanley Robinson Makes the Socialist Case for Space Exploration

In an interview, the leftist sci-fi author argues that democratic space science is crucial to saving Earth.

Dayton Martindale

West Virginia Showed How Necessary—And Difficult—Striking Is

“It was exhilarating and exhausting. You start thinking, ‘Are we going to be out forever?’”

Kate Aronoff

The DCCC’s Long, Ugly History of Sabotaging Progressives

The latest attacks on left challengers are no fluke: For decades the House Democratic fundraising body has put corporate, big-money interests first.

Branko Marcetic

Say It Ain’t Joe: Why Anointing Biden for 2020 Is a Terrible Idea

When will the Democrats learn that Americans don’t want centrism?

What Noam Chomsky Got Right About NAFTA

In 1994, writing for In These Times, Noam Chomsky predicted the trade deal would cause “rural misery and a surplus of labor” and “the fading of meaningful and democratic processes.”

In These Times Editors

Universal Basic Income: A Primer

Here’s why everyone’s demanding free money from the government.

Dayton Martindale

This Sheriff Was Booted by DHS for Racism. Now Trump Wants To Enlist Him in Deportations.

A North Carolina sheriff’s office had a “pattern of racial profiling,” but that hasn’t stopped Trump’s ICE from inviting it into the 287(g) program.

This Union Nurse and Outspoken Progressive Could Become Iowa’s Next Governor

Cathy Glasson is running an insurgent campaign on a platform of Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage and ending “right to work” laws.

These Community Activists Won Bail Reform. Now They Have To Force Judges To Comply.

Thousands of people still sit in Chicago’s Cook County Jail because they are too poor to afford bail.

Alex V. Hernandez

A Middle America You’ll Never See in the Coastal Media

The micro-comics in John Porcellino’s From Lone Mountain show a way of life the media largely ignores.

Tariffs Aren’t the Best Way To Protect U.S. Steelworkers. Global Solidarity Is.

Defending workers' rights will mean standing with fellow laborers in China and the Global South. Trump's tariffs aren't the answer.

Katy Fox-Hodess

A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard on how tariffs could benefit American workers.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

How Tariffs Are Playing Into Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda

Trump's anti-China protectionism and "free trade" neoliberalism are both dead ends. To confront multinational corporate power, the answer is global solidarity.

An Ode to Sharp-Tongued Women, From Dorothy Parker to Susan Sontag

Michelle Dean’s new book Sharp profiles brilliant and creative women who fought sexism, but, by and large, did not identify with the feminist movement.

Laura Tanenbaum

Barbara Ehrenreich Calls BS on the Immortality Industry

In her new book, Natural Causes, the author reminds us that we can't cheat death -- although we can die trying.

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