January 2020 Volume 44, Issue 01

January 2020

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Viewpoint

Why Bernie Can’t Be Organizer-In-Chief Brian Tokar

Warren’s an Ally. We Need a Leader. Rachel Gilmer

Imagine Elizabeth Warren as President. Now Imagine Bernie Sanders. Jessica Stites

Fox News, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda Joel Bleifuss

Even in Bankruptcy, Coal Companies Can’t Stop Selling Out Workers Sarah Lazare

Feature

How a 15-Hour Workweek Could Change Our Lives for the Better In These Times Editors

What an Elizabeth Warren Presidency Would Look Like Kathleen Geier

What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like Daniel Denvir

Dispatch

Labor 101 for Undergraduate Workers Seeking To Unionize Olivia Gieger

Using Roleplaying To Imagine Life Under a Green New Deal—Dungeons & Dragons Style Gavin Aronsen

“Our Biggest Enemy Is PG&E”: Inside the Fight to Put Utilities Under Public Control Nuala Bishari

Culture

The Grooming Gap: What “Looking the Part” Costs Women Mindy Isser

How a 15-Hour Workweek Could Change Our Lives for the Better

Americans work 200 more hours annually than their British and French peers—but studies show working more doesn't translate into higher productivity.

In These Times Editors

What an Elizabeth Warren Presidency Would Look Like

Warren is a “visionary implementer.”

Kathleen Geier

What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like

The possibilities of an “organizer-in-chief.”

Daniel Denvir

Labor 101 for Undergraduate Workers Seeking To Unionize

The Northeast Undergraduate Worker Convention is the nation's first annual convention aimed at training undergrad workers in collective organizing.

Why Bernie Can’t Be Organizer-In-Chief

Movements, not candidates, should drive progressive agendas.

Warren’s an Ally. We Need a Leader.

Elizabeth Warren isn’t the president we need in this moment.

Imagine Elizabeth Warren as President. Now Imagine Bernie Sanders.

We asked their supporters to really think through what a progressive president could—and couldn't—do.

The Grooming Gap: What “Looking the Part” Costs Women

If women don’t conform to beauty expectations, they’re paid less.

Fox News, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda

For nearly a quarter of American adults, Fox News is their only cable news source. It tells them what Trump wants them to hear.

Using Roleplaying To Imagine Life Under a Green New Deal—Dungeons & Dragons Style

Instead of wizards and clerics, Iowans are envisioning roles like community planners and memory stewards, in an environmentally and economically just society.

Even in Bankruptcy, Coal Companies Can’t Stop Selling Out Workers

The industry sees its employees like it sees the Earth: Just another resource to exploit.

“Our Biggest Enemy Is PG&E”: Inside the Fight to Put Utilities Under Public Control

Evacuees of the Kincade Fire and members of the Democratic Socialists of America are demanding PG&E be dismantled.

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