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Unpredictable and Brutal ICE Raids Are Allowing Trump to Rule by Fear
Protections for immigrant communities were already meager. Now, safeguards are being scrapped as the Trump administration escalates nationwide sweeps.
Michelle Chen
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The First Priority for the Resurgent U.S. Socialist Movement? Single-Payer Healthcare
At DSA's overflowing national convention, socialized medicine was front and center.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
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In Genoa, A Budding Antifascist Movement Seeks To Protect Refugees From a Resurgent Right
Refugee advocates are rebuilding the city's once-strong anti-fascist tradition.
Mohammed Harun Arsalai and Teresa Vinni
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The Big Banks and Corporations Financing Trump’s Deportation Machine
Activists are taking aim at corporations like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo for their complicity in the administration’s mass deportation agenda.
Sarah Jaffe
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Transgender People Are Not a ‘Burden’: The Massive Military Budget Is
Instead of looking to the U.S. military to preserve our rights, we should be dismantling it.
Tamara Nassar and Jake Valente
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An Inside Account of How Direct Action Helped Kill the GOP Healthcare Bill
Mari Cordes is a nurse, organizer and House candidate who was arrested multiple times in Washington, D.C. protesting the GOP's Obamacare repeal bill.
Sarah Jaffe
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In Guam, the Gravest Threat Isn’t North Korea—It’s the United States
The United States is using this Pacific colony as its own private firing range.
Leilani Ganser
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Millennials Are Killing the Oil Industry
Hell yeah we are.
Kate Aronoff
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Child Soldier in the War on Terror: The Limits of Justice for One Guantanamo Bay Survivor
The abuse of Omar Khadr shows that Islamophobia drives the War on Terror.
Maha Hilal
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The Trump Administration Is Waging a War on Civilians In Syria
The United States is now one of the deadliest warring parties in Syria
Laura Gottesdiener
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The Democrats’ New Agenda Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Party
More bland messaging and populist posturing won’t save the Democrats. The party needs to take a bold stand against corporate power.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
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John McCain’s Constituents Are Revolting Against His Attempt to Take Away Their Healthcare
Meet Lauren Klinkhammer, a Tucson resident who was politicized by the federal assault on healthcare rights.
Sarah Jaffe
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Jonathan Chait Is Wrong: Neoliberalism Is Real and Fundamentally Opposed to Left Principles
Neoliberalism stands in direct conflict with socialism. We must name it so we can overcome it.
Meagan Day
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The Great Midwestern Divide: Why Minnesota and Wisconsin’s Political Schism Matters
The governorships of conservative Scott Walker (R-Wis.) and progressive Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) have yielded dramatically different results.
Theo Anderson
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What Does the Resistance Really Stand for If It Criminalizes Free Speech?
Pressure is building for 'progressives' to pull their support from proposed legislation that would criminalize support for Palestinian rights.
David Palumbo-Liu
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Bernie Sanders On the Right-Wing Ideology That Rules Our Economy
Milton Friedman is still the false prophet of Wall Street.
Bernie Sanders
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The Hidden Costs of “National Security”: 10 Ways Your Tax Dollars Are Paying for War
In government terms, make no mistake about it, the Pentagon & Co. are the 1%.
William D. Hartung
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Locked Up for Being Poor? Chicago Just Took a Big Step Forward in Bail Reform
Activists are lauding a new court order while continuing to push for the end of money bond.
Abby Lynn Klinkenberg
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This Left Challenger Is Showing How to Use Progressive Economics to Flip Trump Country
Congressional hopeful Jess King is bringing an anti-poverty agenda to the working-class community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Kate Aronoff
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To Resist the GOP’s Attack on Healthcare, We Must Transform Our Political System
The Moral Movement is connecting the dots between racist voter suppression, poverty and lethal federal policies.
Sarah Jaffe
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Language of the Unheard: 50 Years On, the Flames of the Detroit Uprising Still Burn
The structural injustices that laid the groundwork for Detroit’s uprising still exist.
In These Times Staff
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Is This What “Liberation” Looks Like? U.S. Airstrikes Have Devastated Mosul.
ISIS may be on its way out, but the Iraqi city has a long road ahead.
Phyllis Bennis
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Spare Us Your Technocratic Handwringing Over Single Payer: This is Life and Death
The battle for single payer in California is an opportunity to make historic investments in both healthcare and education. We can't pass it up.
Douglas Williams
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A New Deal for Wall Street
Trump's plans for mass privatization are a colossal giveaway to the 1%—and Democrats helped pave the way.
Rebecca Burns
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