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News Feed Fatigue: It’s Getting Harder To Think

The case for taking a break from the news.

Jessa Crispin

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Actually, We Don’t Need To Grow the Economy

Protecting the planet requires scaling down, not up.

Dayton Martindale

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In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón Zooms in on Class Tensions

Set in early 1970s Mexico, a new film explores the life of a domestic worker in a middle-class family.

Ilan Stavans

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The Typical Workplace Is a Dictatorship. But It Doesn’t Have To Be.

Socialists and progressives have a variety of ideas to bring democracy into the workplace.

In These Times Editors

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China’s Digitized Abyss: YY and the Void of Online Fame

Hao Wu’s documentary People’s Republic of Desire explores the dystopia of livestream fandom.

Michael Atkinson

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15 Years Ago, We Predicted the Financial Crash. We Think Another Is On Its Way.

In These Times called for real bank regulation back in 2003—it still hasn’t happened.

In These Times Editors

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Want Better Sex? Try Socialism.

In "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism," Kristen R. Ghodsee argues that economic independence for women not only helps all of society—it improves heterosexual relationships too.

Jane Miller

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Black Women Voters Aren’t “Saving America.” We’re Saving Ourselves.

Since at least the 1830s, Black women have organized, campaigned, and voted for issues that matter to us most.

Joshunda Sanders

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America’s Great Strike Waves Have Shaped the Country. We Can Unleash Another.

Erik Loomis’ "A History of America in Ten Strikes" is a powerful reminder of the need for worker militancy.

Shaun Richman

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Socialism and Feminism: We Can’t Have One Without the Other

Fighting capitalism and patriarchy at the same time.

In These Times Editors

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Steve Bannon’s European Dream

Europe used to serve as a utopian vision for the Left and a punching bag for the Right. Now it’s reversing.

Eleanor Penny

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Serial Misogyn-Neigh: The New “BoJack” Explores How We Let Famous Men, And Horses, Off the Hook

Season five of BoJack Horseman turns a critical eye on its characters and itself.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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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.

Dayton Martindale

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Imagining What Birds Think of Climate Change

An artist anticipates the end of the world from an avian perspective.

Zachary Kligler

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How Fallout 76 Can Help Us Rebuild West Virginia

In the post-apocalyptic video game, millions of players will imagine an Appalachia reborn from the ashes.

Elizabeth Catte

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The Philanthropy Racket or: How The People Destroying the World Anoint Themselves Its Saviors

How the global elite cast themselves as do-gooders.

Chris Lehmann

Culture

How Young Black Radicals Put the World on Notice

Charlene Carruthers’ new book, Unapologetic, showcases a queer women-led black liberation movement that’s upending past paradigms.

Salim Muwakkil

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What It Really Means To Abolish ICE

The root of the problem is the criminalization of immigrants.

In These Times Editors

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Why Dreams of Striking It Rich Are Actually Anti-Capitalist

The quest for buried treasure is a quest to escape the market.

David Anthony

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Araby: A Road Movie Driven By Economic Necessity, Not Wanderlust

A new film follows a working-class everyman through the margins of Brazilian capitalism.

Michael Atkinson

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Sorry To Bother You Is the Anti-Capitalist Black Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For

Boots Riley’s new film shows how black liberation and labor politics are enmeshed. And it’s funny.

Lauren Michele Jackson

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Turning Abandoned Gold Mines Into Wheelchair Paths

How a motley alliance of hippies and hillbillies transformed a California mining town.

Stephanie Sauer

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A Brief Case for Cancelling All Student Loan Debt

It isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s smart economics.

In These Times Editors

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In Yellowstone, Heavy Lies the Stetson (on Kevin Costner’s Head)

Land disputes, water rights, Native sovereignty: Paramount’s new series could hardly be more relevant to today’s West.

Carson Vaughan