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Republicans Never Wanted a Fair Fight

Lessons from the tumultuous election in 2000 are still relevant 20 years later.

In These Times Editors

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How to Fight Fascism Through Literature

Arundhati Roy’s new book "Azadi" raises important questions about how we can resist authoritarianism by expressing not only outrage but joy.

Apoorva Tadepalli

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Felt Like the Loss of a Friend

Ginsburg’s story is, in many ways, the story of women in the 20th century. It’s no surprise, then, that her loss feels deeply personal.

Diana Babineau

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Trump’s False Claims of Rampant Voter Fraud Draw From a Well-worn Racist Playbook

Republicans have tried to suppress turnout among voters who are poor, disabled or people of color for many years.

Joel Bleifuss

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What Would a Feminist City Look Like?

New York’s City Hall encampment provides a model for creating care-centered, inclusive spaces.

Apoorva Tadepalli

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In 1971, Nixon Passed a Rule to Doom the Post Office. Now, It’s Finally Happening.

The Post Office used to be federally funded. Then, Republicans passed legislation requiring it to "pay for itself."

Rebecca Burns

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Your White Neighbor’s “Black Lives Matter” Yard Sign Is Not Enough

Being anti-racist means making places safe for Black people to inhabit. Without that, BLM yard signs are just performative allyship.

Shayla Lawson

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Artists Explore the Hidden Tolls of Life Lived at a Distance

What art looks like in isolation

Diana Babineau

Culture

The Language of Extinction

When wildfires destroy habitats, more than species are lost.

Holly Haworth

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SARS Lessons Lost

What the United States should have learned from SARS—and blatantly ignored.

Indigo Olivier

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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

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As a Domestic Violence Survivor, I Don’t Always Feel Safer at Home

Shelter in place orders can remind those of us with C-PTSD of past times we were trapped.

Anna Joy Springer

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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.

Kyle Williams

Culture

What a Janitor Found at a Border Patrol Processing Facility

Tom Kiefer spent years collecting items confiscated and thrown away by border patrol

Féi Hernandez

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

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

Mindy Isser

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Restorative Justice: A Much-Needed Alternative to Mass Incarceration

Courts and schools across the country are looking beyond punishment.

In These Times Editors

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The New Deal Funded the Arts. The Green New Deal Should, Too.

Cultural work has a key role to play in shaping the climate-friendly economy.

Ashley Dawson

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When We Talk About Cultural Appropriation, We Should Be Talking About Power

When the powerful appropriate from the oppressed, inequality is exacerbated.

Lauren Michele Jackson

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A CAP Analyst’s Red-Baiting Book Accidentally Makes the Case for Socialism

Warren advisor Ganesh Sitaraman and Yale Law School professor Anne L. Alstott bend over backward to fix capitalism. And prove they can’t.

Phyllis Eckhaus

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10 Years of Death by Border Patrol

Humanitarian aid for migrants crossing through dangerous deserts has been a crime for years.

In These Times Editors

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A Worker’s Place Is in the Museum

A new exhibit in New York honors the state's labor history.

Joel Bleifuss

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The Case for Enthusiasm Over “Electability”—Or, Why We Don’t Need Another John Kerry.

"Electability" didn't work in 2004 and it won't work now.

In These Times Editors

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Toni Morrison: White Cultural Achievement Is Built on the Backs of Black People

This 1992 review of Morrison's Playing in the Dark shows how the renowned author interrogated myths of white superiority in American literature.

William E. Cain

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How a Sewer Socialist City May Push Democrats Left in 2020

When presidential hopefuls arrive in Milwaukee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention, they must choose whether to embrace the city’s socialist history, or run from it.

Lindsey Anderson