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Why People Say There's a "Nonprofit Industrial Complex"

Rather than building mass movements, talented organizers get funneled into staff and admin jobs just to keep the charity running.

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Teens Work, Drive and Pay Taxes. They Should Be Able To Vote, Too.

Greater civic engagement will depend on enfranchising young voters

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When Abortion Clinics Had Business Cards

A history of abortions before Roe

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Before Wokeness, There Was “Political Correctness”

Revisiting a left case against PC culture from the 90s

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Community Care Over Self-Care

Unlike community care, self-care consumption rituals are unequally accessible and rarely prevent burnout

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Revisiting 1990s Critical Race Theorists

To understand America, we must listen to what Black scholars have been saying about what it means to be white.

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The Gig Economy Needs Worker-Owned Apps

Platform co-ops could cut out the Silicon Valley middlemen

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If You Like the Idea of a 4-Day Workweek, You'll Love the 5-Hour Workday

Some companies are implementing shorter workdays while others are opting for shorter workweeks increasing productivity.

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The Time the WTO Yawned at the Revolution

In a Covid-19 world, revisiting the WTO talks in 1999 sheds light on what developing countries can do to end the pandemic.

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Is Decentralizing the Internet the Answer?

Bitcoin, crypto, blockchain... what does it mean, and is anything coming from Big Tech really "revolutionary?"

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Vaccine Apartheid: Straight from the Measles Playbook

Thirty years after the 1990s measles outbreak, it's still profits over people in Covid-19 America.

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A New Era of Digital Dissidence in Cuba

A decade later, Cuban dissidents have taken to the Internet, finding a new voice and audience.

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What If We Made Democracy... More Democratic?

When politicians seem increasingly out of touch with the average person, perhaps the average person should make decisions instead.

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Student Worker Isn’t an Oxymoron

This month University of California's Student Researchers United-UAW won their union, the largest unit of student employees organized at once in U.S. history. Let's look back 30 years at what campus organizers fought for.

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Fifteen Minute Cities Could Be the Future of Urban Planning

This solution could be a blueprint not just for greater convenience, but for equity and sustainability.

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How to Protect Time Off in a Remote Work World

Legislating the "right to disconnect" could help prevent wage theft in a virtual environment that has blurred the line between work and home.

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The People the Left Lost to the Anti-Abortion Movement

After <i>Roe</i>, the Church and the Right outmaneuvered us for the moral high ground.

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It's Time to Democratize City Budgets

"Ordinary citizens" are perfectly capable of allocating public money wisely. They should be given the power to do so.

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Occupy Wall Street, Ten Years After

In 2011, Occupy organizers spoke with In These Times about challenges and opportunities. Ten years later, we look back on the decentralized, grassroots uprising.

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9/11 and the Illusion of War Without Casualties

Twenty years ago, Naomi Klein wrote that 9/11 shattered Americans' "illusion of war without casualties." Now, after combat troops have been pulled out of Afghanistan, is it really "game over"?

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Debt Is Usually Treated As A Personal Failure. Debtors' Unions Are Changing That.

With nearly three out of four households carrying some kind of debt, debtors' unions are reframing indebtedness as a shared problem and a source of collective power.

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The "Landback" Movement Would Return Stolen Land to Indigenous Stewardship

Part of the larger decolonization movement, landback is critical in dismantling white supremacy and mitigating climate disaster.

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The Meeting in 1998 That Kept Black Radicalism Alive

Two decades ago, the Black Radical Congress convened to reclaim revolution and denounce reformism.

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Let's Not Forget the Suffering the United States Has Inflicted on Guatemala

In July 1996, In These Times documented the CIA's myriad abuses during the Guatemalan Civil War. It's a history that Vice President Kamala Harris has conveniently ignored.

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