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What’s at Stake for the Labor Movement on Election Day? Everything.

Unions hope a Biden presidency will reverse decades of anti-worker policies.

Hamilton Nolan

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A New Crisis Hotline Could Serve As an Alternative to Policing in Chicago

Police aren’t social workers. A new proposal would stop them from doing both jobs.

Taylor Moore

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The Problem Isn't That People Are Greedy—It's That They're Capitalist

Capitalism's ethos of “grow or die” comes at our expense.

Hadas Thier

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Anti-War Veteran Is Furious Trump Is Twisting His Video Protesting Biden's Iraq War Record

Air Force veteran is demanding Trump stop sharing a dated video of him confronting Biden.

Sarah Lazare

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Tenants Just Won a Nationwide Eviction Ban. They're Still Fighting to Cancel Rent.

President Trump's surprise eviction moratorium is an election hail-mary. But to stave off a disastrous housing crisis, organizers say Democrats—including Joe Biden—must embrace bolder measures.

Rebecca Burns

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10 Ways Remote Learning Is Failing Our Students

Returning to in-person learning poses many risks. So does staying at home.

Dayton Martindale

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Banks Have Made $18 Billion From "Paycheck Protection Program" Processing Fees Alone

Fees paid to banks eclipse funding allocated to develop vaccines, provide medical supplies and feed children.

Colleen Boyle

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Social Abstinence Is Not a Sustainable Pandemic Response

The "just say no" approach isn't working. But here's what might.

In These Times Editors

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The Last Thing Libya Needs Is an Intensification of a U.S. Proxy War

We must stop our government from treating Libya like its own private battleground.

Gregory Shupak

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Trump Is Trying to Put Us on War Footing with China. It’s Up to the Left to Stop It.

On the dangers of the Right’s new China scare

Tobita Chow and Jake Werner

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The Pandemic Is Exposing the Rotten Core of Our Industrial Food System

While industrial farms have been thrown into chaos, local agriculture has proved to be a more resilient model.

Joseph Bullington

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Mijente Stayed Out of the 2016 Election. Here’s Why It’s Going All In This Time.

Hispanic voters will comprise 13% of the electorate this year—the largest nonwhite demographic group of eligible voters. Mijente’s “Fuera Trump” campaign aims to mobilize them for the November election.

Ray Levy-Uyeda

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I Shouldn’t Have to Be a “Strong Black Woman” for My Life to Matter

Support Black women when we are loud or quiet, when we are brave or scared, when we are fed-up or meek.

Ramenda Cyrus

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Biden Promises a Return to the Obama Era. That’s Bad News for Palestinians.

A campaign built on nostalgia is no comfort for those who are not at all nostalgic for the Obama administration.

Alex Kane

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The Democratic Platform Fight Shows It’s Still Obama’s Party

Bernie Sanders supporters have pushed for progressive priorities in the platform, but the Barack Obama wing of the Democratic establishment is still in the driver’s seat.

Branko Marcetic

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The Future of Homeless Organizing Lives on the Prettiest Street in Philadelphia

Hamilton Nolan

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Why the South Needs Pro-Worker Media

A conversation with David Story and Jacob Morrison, the hosts of The Valley Labor Report, a new radio show out of Huntsville, Alabama.

Maximillian Alvarez

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Chicago Is Spending $1.6 Billion on 13,000 Police. Is It Worth It?

With shootings and murders on the rise, community organizers and criminologists point to a police hiring spree from just four years ago to show that more cops on Chicago’s streets aren’t the answer.

Carlos Ballesteros

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“The Goal Is to Abolish the Police”: A Conversation with Assata’s Daughters

Young organizers on 'planting the seeds' of a better world.

Selah Amoaku, Destiny Bell and Theo Cunningham

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Why Shipbuilders in Coastal Maine are (Still) On Strike

A conversation with Jami Bellefleur, a Maine shipbuilder.

Maximillian Alvarez

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“We Are On the Cusp of Something Great”: A Black Liberation Organizer on Next Steps for the Movement

An interview with Nikita Mitchell

Nikita Mitchell

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Police Budgets Are Ballooning as Social Programs Crumble

Cities across the country have defied demands from protesters to defund police despite facing huge budget deficits from Covid-19.

Indigo Olivier

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Philly D.A. Larry Krasner Says He’s Ready to Charge Invading Federal Agents with Crimes

He sees a way out of our "drunken stumble" into fascism.

Hamilton Nolan

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Beware the Anti-Defamation League’s Efforts to Partner with Progressive Orgs

The Anti-Defamation League has a long history of smearing Black activists, working with police, and evoking “hate speech” to demonize the peaceful BDS movement.

Sarah Lazare and Adam Johnson