March 2020 Volume 44, Issue 03

March 2020

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Viewpoint

Fake Meat Is All the Rage—And It Can Help Us Fight Climate Change Dayton Martindale

Impossible Burgers Won’t Save the Environment—They’re Just a Greenwashing Trend Alicia Kennedy

Our View of Black History Has Radically Shifted in a Few Short Years Salim Muwakkil

War Is an Enormous Threat to the Climate Movement Sarah Lazare

James Thindwa, a Man Who Did What Needed to Be Done—And Said What Needed to Be Said Joel Bleifuss

Feature

12 Reasons Why Sex Ed Reform Cannot Wait Ria Bhagwat

Jeff Bezos Embodies the Cruel Autocracy of Neoliberal Capitalism Branko Marcetic

How the UAW Went From a Militant, Trailblazing Union to a Corrupt, Dealmaking One Chris Brooks

Bernie’s Strategy To Win California—And Everywhere Nuala Bishari

Dispatch

Out of Prison, Into Alt-Prison Katie Rose Quandt

He Sued Chevron and Won. Now He’s Under House Arrest. Christine MacDonald

These Blue-Collar Trump Supporters Think the Economy Is Great. Your Move, Democrats. Kari Lydersen

Culture

Is the Present Too Much? It’s a Good Time To Take Up Afrofuturism. In These Times Editors

What Howard Zinn Got Wrong Kyle Williams

12 Reasons Why Sex Ed Reform Cannot Wait

Less than half of U.S. schools offer sex education that is medically accurate.

Ria Bhagwat

Jeff Bezos Embodies the Cruel Autocracy of Neoliberal Capitalism

Amazon CEO and richest-man-in-the-world Jeff Bezos wants you to work as much as he does—for one millionth of the pay

Branko Marcetic

How the UAW Went From a Militant, Trailblazing Union to a Corrupt, Dealmaking One

The 50-year decline that led to Gary Jones' indictment.

Chris Brooks

Bernie’s Strategy To Win California—And Everywhere

Sanders is taking a risk no one has before: banking on new voters

Nuala Bishari

Is the Present Too Much? It’s a Good Time To Take Up Afrofuturism.

Marvel's 'Black Panther,' Octavia Butler's science fiction and Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' are all prime examples of this movement celebrating the Black experience.

In These Times Editors

Fake Meat Is All the Rage—And It Can Help Us Fight Climate Change

A case for the Impossible: the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Dayton Martindale

Impossible Burgers Won’t Save the Environment—They’re Just a Greenwashing Trend

High-tech fake meat giants are more interested in making a quick buck than mitigating climate change.

Out of Prison, Into Alt-Prison

The industry profiting from prison halfway houses.

Katie Rose Quandt

What Howard Zinn Got Wrong

The problem with Zinn’s work is that it fails to offer an honest account of how political change actually happens.

He Sued Chevron and Won. Now He’s Under House Arrest.

Chevron is using the U.S. courts to avoid paying out $9.5 billion for environmental damage—and to silence lead lawyer Steven Donziger.

Christine MacDonald

Our View of Black History Has Radically Shifted in a Few Short Years

The case for reparations and The 1619 Project have focused attention on what makes African Americans distinct.

War Is an Enormous Threat to the Climate Movement

Unless challenged, U.S. military power imperils any serious response to the climate crisis.

These Blue-Collar Trump Supporters Think the Economy Is Great. Your Move, Democrats.

At Trump’s Milwaukee rally, supporters boasted that he’s ushered in an economic miracle. Democrats face the challenge of convincing them otherwise.

James Thindwa, a Man Who Did What Needed to Be Done—And Said What Needed to Be Said

In These Times lost a friend. But his words live on.

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