July 2018 Volume 42, Issue 07

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Viewpoint

Oliver North Is Still Running Arms Joel Bleifuss

Jobs Guarantee or Universal Basic Income? Why Not Both? Alyssa Battistoni

Do We Need a Universal Basic Income? A Debate. Matt Bruenig

Do We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee? A Debate. Rohan Grey & Raúl Carrillo

It’s Time to Put Israel on Trial Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Self-Driving Cars Are Coming. Will They Serve Profit or the Public? Angie Schmitt

Philly’s Progressive New DA Is Testing the Limits of Change from Within Max M. Marin

Investigation: Corporations Are Profiting From Immigrant Detainees’ Labor. Some Say It’s Slavery. Victoria Law

Dispatch

Trump’s Heartless Honduras Policy, in 15 Numbers Sasha Kramer

An Indigenous Cooperative Is Dodging Bullets To Defend Their Land Ethan Bien

Disaster Capitalism Strikes Puerto Rico’s Schools Hannah Wiley

Maine Becomes the First State To Test Ranked-Choice Voting Julia Conley

Summer Lee’s Plan To Bring Democratic Socialism to Pennsylvania Mitchell Stewart

Culture

Turning Abandoned Gold Mines Into Wheelchair Paths Stephanie Sauer

A Brief Case for Cancelling All Student Loan Debt In These Times Editors

In Yellowstone, Heavy Lies the Stetson (on Kevin Costner’s Head) Carson Vaughan

Self-Driving Cars Are Coming. Will They Serve Profit or the Public?

We can reclaim our cities from the auto industry—or we can spend all our lives in traffic.

Angie Schmitt

Philly’s Progressive New DA Is Testing the Limits of Change from Within

Decarceration activists put Larry Krasner in office. Now they’re demanding that he empty the city’s jails.

Max M. Marin

Investigation: Corporations Are Profiting From Immigrant Detainees’ Labor. Some Say It’s Slavery.

At privately run detention centers, immigrants say they're forced to work for $1 a day.

Victoria Law

Trump’s Heartless Honduras Policy, in 15 Numbers

By revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the Trump administration is sending Honduran immigrants back to a nation in crisis.

Turning Abandoned Gold Mines Into Wheelchair Paths

How a motley alliance of hippies and hillbillies transformed a California mining town.

Stephanie Sauer

A Brief Case for Cancelling All Student Loan Debt

It isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s smart economics.

In These Times Editors

An Indigenous Cooperative Is Dodging Bullets To Defend Their Land

In Cuetzalan, Mexico, environmentalists are risking their lives to fight destructive energy projects.

Oliver North Is Still Running Arms

North, the NRA’s new president, seems to always turn up when dictatorship looms.

Jobs Guarantee or Universal Basic Income? Why Not Both?

Neither is a silver bullet, but they can help us tackle inequality and climate change.

Alyssa Battistoni

Disaster Capitalism Strikes Puerto Rico’s Schools

The government’s plan to close 179 public schools and open charters has residents alarmed.

Do We Need a Universal Basic Income? A Debate.

Getting free money from the government is popular. But would it prop up capitalism?

Do We Need a Federal Jobs Guarantee? A Debate.

Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders have all proposed a job guarantee. But would it be drudgery?

Rohan Grey & Raúl Carrillo

In Yellowstone, Heavy Lies the Stetson (on Kevin Costner’s Head)

Land disputes, water rights, Native sovereignty: Paramount’s new series could hardly be more relevant to today’s West.

Maine Becomes the First State To Test Ranked-Choice Voting

Progressives vote for their favorite candidates without the fear of spoilers.

Summer Lee’s Plan To Bring Democratic Socialism to Pennsylvania

“That we have not just revolted is crazy to me.”

Mitchell Stewart

It’s Time to Put Israel on Trial

The court of public opinion isn't enough. Israel's leaders should face charges in The Hague.

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