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Jerry Brown Lashes Out at COP23 Climate Protesters: “Let’s Put You in the Ground”
Activists interrupted Brown at the UN climate conference calling to keep fossil fuels in the ground and pursue more radical solutions.
Kate Aronoff
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Alias Grace Is Even More Relevant to Trump’s America Than The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is used as a catch-all feminist allegory. But it's the specificity of Alias Grace, Netflix's latest Margaret Atwood adaptation, that makes it so pertinent.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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The Democratic Socialists Scored Some Big Wins. Here’s What They’re Planning Next.
A conversation with Christian Bowe, national political committee member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Kate Aronoff
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A New Study Shows That Independent Media Has an Outsized Impact
In These Times and other progressive outlets participated in a five-year study on how news coverage affects the national conversation.
Jo Ellen Kaiser
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Socialists Just Showed the Democratic Party How to Win Across the U.S.
Tuesday night’s progressive electoral wave is proof that embracing a bold left agenda is the key to victory.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
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Saudi Bombing and Blockade Are Devastating Yemen, And Yemenis Know the U.S. Bears Responsibility
U.S.-backed Saudi aggression is stoking anti-American sentiment in Yemen.
Nasser Arrabyee
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Trump’s Visit Shows the U.S. Calls the Shots in South Korea. But Its People Intend To Resist.
It is up to the peace movement to rein in Trump on North Korea.
Christine Ahn
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Donna Brazile’s DNC Revelations Are a Sign the Left Is Winning the War in the Democratic Party
The centrist establishment is discredited—and party insiders like Brazile can tell which way the winds are blowing.
Branko Marcetic
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If Berniecrats Were British: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum Won the Soul of the Labour Party
Momentum continues to play a central role in organizing the Left in the U.K.’s Labour party.
Sarah Jaffe
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Rahm Emanuel’s Tribute to the World’s Richest Man Is Bad News for Chicago
The city's $2.25 billion offer to Amazon shows that the mayor puts the needs of tech profiteers over city residents.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
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This Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Wants To Disarm and Demilitarize Police—And He’s Winning
Raymond Dehn's progressive policies on criminal justice, housing and more are resonating across the city.
Valerie Vande Panne
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In 1979, This Economist Predicted Puerto Rico’s Modern-Day Financial Crisis
The dominoes that led to the collapse were set up decades ago.
Alex V. Hernandez
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The Revolution Will Not Be Business Casual—and Other Takeaways From the Women’s Convention
The convention in Detroit was great on diversity and energy, but light on systemic analysis.
Jordan Sarti and Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
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How Monsanto Captured the EPA—And Twisted Science—To Keep Glyphosate on the Market
Since 1973, Monsanto has cited dubious science, like tests on the uteri of male mice, and the EPA has let much of it slide.
Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman
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Pruitt Is Removing Science Advisers Who Have Received EPA Funding, But He’s OK With Industry Funding
The EPA administrator called for scientific independence while drowning in fossil fuel money.
Kate Aronoff
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The Mueller Indictments Aren’t Stopping the GOP From Pursuing Its Craven Agenda
Trump is in hot water, but Republicans are still pushing forward his plans to cut taxes on the rich and defang the EPA.
Theo Anderson
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The Breitbart-Fueled War on Leftist Academics
Some universities are failing to defend scholars when they are targeted by right-wing smear campaigns
Devyn Springer
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Why the Minneapolis Political Establishment Is Scared of Ginger Jentzen
The socialist city council candidate is running on a platform of rent control and reducing inequality—and she’s massively outraising her opponents.
David Duhalde
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The Twisted Logic Behind the GOP’s Latest Assault on Abortion Rights
You can't exercise your reproductive rights if you don’t know you are pregnant.
Michelle Chen
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Repulsed by Whitefish Energy? Maybe You Also Hate Capitalism.
Following public outrage, the company's power contract in Puerto Rico was canceled. But the company still reveals a great deal about the banal evils of capitalism.
Kate Aronoff
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Why the Weinstein Story Has Been So Huge
Until we confront rape culture as a whole, the #MeToo testimonies will continue.
Susan J. Douglas
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The Left Needs To Confront Its Own Sexual Assault Problem
Our movements will never win as long as many of us are unsafe.
Alex Press
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Sexual Violence Is a Workplace Crisis. The Solution Is Organizing.
Revolution doesn't sound like a whisper campaign.
Michelle Chen
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Bernie-Backed Mayoral Challenger Vincent Fort on How He Wants to Transform Atlanta
In an exclusive interview, Fort explains that he is running for mayor to represent working-class Atlanta residents, not “millionaires and billionaires.”
Sam Elalouf
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