Election 2024

Share Your Thoughts on the Election with In These Times

A space for political community as we continue to process what happened and what's to come.

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InterviewCulture

David Graeber Is Gone, But He's Still Changing How We See History

In <i>The Dawn of Everything</i>, David Graeber delivers parting wisdom.

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Viewpoint

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.

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Viewpoint

Why We Always Cover Union Fights From the Perspective of Workers, Not Bosses

We've been covering the labor movement for decades. And we're not quitting.

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Labor

10 Years of Working In These Times: The 25 Best Stories

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Viewpoint

There’s a Vanishing Resource We’re Not Talking About

Humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we're destroying the planet. Yet that diversity could be key to surviving environmental extremes.

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Viewpoint

Why I’m Sick and Tired of Hearing About Russiagate

Mueller won’t save us from the deep flaws in our democracy that brought us Trump.

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Viewpoint

Why Did We Run an Anti-Abortion Piece in 1979?

A look back at the historical context and where we went wrong.

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Dispatch

Locking Up Immigrant Kids, Again

Our nation's past treatment of immigrant families doesn’t make the current situation any less horrifying—but we need it to inform our longterm pressure on the Democrats.

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Feature

Beyond Hollywood: Domestic Workers Say #MeToo

Ai-jen Poo on how a new women’s movement is building—from house cleaners to Hollywood stars

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Feature

What We Got Wrong When Covering the Bill Clinton Sexual Abuse Allegations

In this #MeToo moment, looking back at our coverage.

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Viewpoint

Puerto Rico Is a Symptom of America’s Rotting Democracy

We need to rebuild the island and our government.

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Culture

Hulu’s Brilliant Adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Says More About Our Present Than Our Future

For many marginalized women, dystopia is already here.

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Feature

Seizing the Moment: 40 Years of In These Times

Pushing America Left since 1976.

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Video

The Undemocratic Origins of Superdelegates: Democracy Now! Talks to In These Times

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Feature

Margaret Atwood on Climate Change, Her New Book and Why Socialists Are Better with Budgets

We asked the speculative fiction writer about this month's Canadian elections and (relatedly?) whether humanity is doomed.

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Culture

The Climate Change-Induced Dystopia of ‘The Water Knife’ Is Not Just Sci-Fi—It’s Already Here

The climate change-induced tragedies The Water Knife chronicles are already happening today; they’re just not happening to us—yet.

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Dispatch

Could Elizabeth Warren Really Run Against Hillary Clinton?

Some are holding out for a progressive alternative to a Clinton coronation.

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Video

Michelle Alexander On How Ferguson Shows The Truth About Our Racist Criminal Justice System

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Viewpoint

From Occupy to Ferguson

The two movements are more connected than you think.

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Dispatch

Policing After Ferguson

Can we stop the brutality?

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Culture

The Uses of Enchantment

In Enchanted Objects, David Rose rhapsodizes about the coming Internet of Things. But can high-tech objects really reconnect us?

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Dispatch

Can We Have More Jobs and Less Work?

In an age of overwork and unemployment, economists look at novel ways to solve both problems.

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Feature

The Dawning of the Age of Anthropocene

By altering the earth, have humans ushered in a new epoch?

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$40 Million Fund Created for Rana Plaza Victims’ Families

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Dispatch

The Adoption-Industrial Complex

Is U.S. domestic adoption about children or profit?

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Feature

Is Your Town in Transition?

Out of a quaint English town, a sustainability movement goes global.

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Noam Chomsky Helped Talk Stephen Hawking Into Boycotting Israel

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Video

The Rap Song That Rahm Emanuel Doesn’t Want To Hear

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Feature

Independent Media Now!

An interview with Amy Goodman.

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Video

Joss Whedon Warns of Romney Zombie Apocalypse

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Feature

Is America Exceptional?

Jarrett Stepman and Eli Zaretsky, representing the Right and Left, respectively, debate U.S. superiority

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Video

Get Your War On: One Job, One Vote

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Video

Spanish Police Clash with Anti-Austerity Protesters

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Video

South African Police Kill Striking Miners

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Video

Chicago Tribune: The Life and Death of an Iraq Vet

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