Dayton Martindale is a freelance writer and former associate editor at In These Times. His work has also appeared in Boston Review, Earth Island Journal, Harbinger and The Next System Project. Follow him on Twitter: @DaytonRMartind.
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It's on All of Us to Dismantle Colorism
People of color with darker skin tones make less money, face more health risks, and are more likely to be arrested than their lighter skinned counterparts. We have a collective responsibility to confront it.
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Meet Your Landlord’s Worst Nightmare: Tenants Unions
Nearly half of all renters in 2019 were spending more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. Tenants have had enough—and they're doing something about it.
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Pessimism Is a Luxury We Can't Afford
The fights ahead are daunting—but the world is ours to win.
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PalestineDepartments
“Terrorist” Rhetoric Makes Us All Less Safe
“Terrorism” is a term that lumps everyday Palestinians and Nelson Mandela in with ISIS and white supremacists. Is it time to retire it?
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DepartmentsThe Right-Wing Issue
Moms Against Fascism
LGBTQ parents in Southern California are fighting queerphobic hate with “a fuckton of spray paint” and “Know your Local Fascist” zines.
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DepartmentsThe Socialism Issue
Nationalization Is a Great American Tradition
The U.S. government has at various times taken control of radio, railroads, coal mines and banks. Today there are movements afoot to nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, transit and more.
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Departments
The Guerrilla Gardeners Seedbombing the Suburbs
How guerrilla gardeners supply healthy food, beautify their community and support the local ecosystem.
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Departments
Praxis Makes Perfect
How to stop treating politics like a spectator sport.
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Feature
The Case Against Industrial Animal Agriculture in 10 Statistics
The pandemic has slowed the growth of meat consumption around the world. Scientists argue we need to keep that trend going.
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Feature
10 Ways Remote Learning Is Failing Our Students
Returning to in-person learning poses many risks. So does staying at home.
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Departments
11 Statistics That Show Racism Is Entrenched in Our Healthcare System
Covid-19 is disproportionately harming Black Americans. This is not an exception, but the rule.
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Feature
9 Statistics That Show What a Miserable Failure the CARES Act Is
Major bailouts went to big corporations, giving them lasting security, while the rest of us got a temporary Band-Aid.
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Feature
10 Signs That Prove Big Pharma Could Care Less About Your Health
Drug companies are lobbying to protect their right to profit from any future Covid-19 vaccine.
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Feature
A Federal Jobs Program for Contact Tracing
To safely reopen the economy, we need a public health corps. Here's how to build it.
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Viewpoint
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.
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Viewpoint
Why “High Hopes” Is the Perfect Dance Song for the Buttigieg Campaign
It’s a meritocratic fantasy.
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Feature
This Isn’t the First Time the United States Has Abandoned the Kurds
In 2014, the United States used Kurdish fighters to beat back ISIS, at great human cost, then left them behind.
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Feature
Any Good Climate Plan Must Address Poverty and Racism
Why climate justice advocates have been demanding this since long before the Green New Deal.
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Viewpoint
Why We Need Young People To Run the Country—And Why I’m Voting for Bernie Anyway
You can't trust anyone over 30 years in office. Except maybe one.
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Feature
Hold the Applause. Biden’s Climate Plan Is Mostly Fluff.
Biden avoids taking on the fossil fuel industry by relying on vague promises and unproven technologies.
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Viewpoint
Why We Devoted an Entire Issue to Climate Change
The most ambitious climate proposal ever seen on Capitol Hill is a call to action. We need to answer the call.
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Culture
Actually, We Don’t Need To Grow the Economy
Protecting the planet requires scaling down, not up.
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Culture
Portrait of the Environmentalist as a Young Arsonist
Abby Geni's new novel, The Wildlands, explores means and ends in the fight for animal and Earth liberation.
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Viewpoint
Why Keith Ellison and Jeremy Corbyn Think We Should Cap CEO Pay
Does it make sense for a boss to earn more than 200 times what a worker does? The case for a maximum wage.
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Feature
Is Your Job Bullshit? David Graeber on Capitalism’s Endless Busywork
In his new book, the anarchist and anthropologist looks at why almost 40 percent of us think our jobs are meaningless.
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Culture
Universal Basic Income: A Primer
Here’s why everyone’s demanding free money from the government.
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Feature
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.
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Feature
Ta-Nehisi Coates Made the Case for Reparations—Here’s Who Is Making the Plan
Black scholars and organizers are thinking beyond just a check.
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Culture
A Brief Case for Guaranteed Housing
Why housing should be a human right.
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Viewpoint
A Socialist Case for Curbing Consumption To Stop Climate Change
Combating extractive capitalism is crucial. So is taking the bus.
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Labor
That Time When Virginia Woolf Called for Wages for Housework
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Culture
Does the Natural World Needs Its Own Bill of Rights?
Why environmentalists are working to grant rivers and mountains legal status.
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Culture
A Brief Case for Prison Abolition
We know prisons are racist, classist and abusive. Are they also obsolete?
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Culture
Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up
A primer on the solidarity economy.
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Culture
Want a Radical Alternative to Trump’s Immigration Agenda? Try Open Borders.
It's not just a pipe dream.
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Culture
Single-Payer Healthcare In 5 Minutes Or Less
Everyone is getting behind this prescription for a better healthcare system. But what is it exactly?
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Culture
Democratic Socialism in 5 Minutes or Less
From Rosa Luxemburg to Bernie Sanders, a beginner’s guide.
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Culture
The Abolitionist of Walden Pond
Two hundred years after his birth, Henry David Thoreau is as relevant as ever.
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Viewpoint
Don’t Mine What’s Ours
How a public-lands populism can fight Trump and the GOP.
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Culture
Toward a Real-Life Zootopia
How a fuller conception of freedom can help humans and others coexist.
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Feature
Defending the Commons: 40 Years of In These Times
As the corporate assault on the environment grow, so does the movement against it.
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Feature
An Indigenous Organizer at Standing Rock Speaks on Police Repression, Climate Chaos and Donald Trump
The water protectors at Standing Rock are still defiant in opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Rural America
Listen, Omnivore! A Vegan’s Plea for Common Ground
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Rural America
We Got the Whole World in Our Hands, E.O. Wilson Says We Should Give Half of it Back
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Feature
Rebecca Solnit on Climate Change and How Political Activism Can Help Us Find Happiness
The longtime writer and activist discusses the hope found in uncertainty, her experience at the Paris climate talks, the role of the writer and more.
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Rural America
Lessons from the Original War on Coal: Class Conflict and the Fossil Economy
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Rural America
Veganic: Do Organic Farming and Urban Food Justice Have Room for Animal Rights?
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Rural America
Our Planet is Facing a New Mass Extinction: Can This Book Help Stop It?
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