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10 Years After Katrina, New Orleans’ All-Charter School System Has Proven a Failure

Test scores tell one story, and residents tell another. A three-month investigation by In These Times reveals the cracks in the education reform narrative.

Colleen Kimmett

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Appalachia’s Coal Industry is Collapsing—But the Mountains Aren’t Coming Back

The fall of West Virginia's coal mono-industry leaves the area without its peaks and forests. Only an uncertain future remains.

Laura Gottesdiener

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Selling Off New Orleans: Gentrification and the Loss of Community 10 Years After Katrina

How long-time residents feel about the new Louisiana purchase

Fatima Shaik

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Slavoj Zizek: The Greek Apocalypse: Versailles or Brest-Litovsk?

A response to my critics and the case for a guerrilla war within the Eurozone

Slavoj Žižek

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‘The Wire’ Humanized Urban Black People. In ‘Show Me a Hero,’ David Simon Humanizes White Racists.

In a post-Ferguson America, David Simon's Show Me a Hero feels sadly dated.

Maya Dukmasova

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Deez Nuts Endorses Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Presidential Nomination

He also endorsed, perhaps not surprisingly, himself for the general election.

Micah Uetricht

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The New Anthems of Resistance: Hip-Hop and Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter and hip-hop have taken the omnipresent tensions around racism in America and put them into the center of mainstream consciousness.

Alexander Billet

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Bernie Sanders Is Drawing Massive Crowds Around the Country—No Big Deal, Says Washington Post

Mainstream commentators are insistent that the outpouring of enthusiasm for Sanders' progressive vision is meaningless.

Michael Tkaczevski

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Noam Chomsky: The Real ‘Grave Threat’ to World Peace Isn’t Iran—It’s the U.S.

The longtime leftist intellectual on the absurdity of American opposition to the Iran deal.

Noam Chomsky

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The U.S. Military Is in Africa—But What Is It Doing There?

Journalist Nick Turse discusses his new book, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa.

Marc Daalder

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Even One of the Koch Brothers Thinks We Need To End Corporate Welfare

Charles Koch argued for an end to preferential treatment for corporations—but did he mean it?

David Sirota

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Iran and the Myth of Anti-Semitism

Iranian rhetoric isn't anti-Semitic—it's anti-Zionist.

Roy Isacowitz

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The Amazing Plasticity of American Statecraft

Think of Washington as a poker player that gets dealt a hand consisting of half the deck: no matter how sloppily and stupidly it plays its cards, it is hard for it to lose.

Chase Madar

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How the Government Fast-Tracked Shell’s Arctic Drilling

After Royal Dutch Shell's mishaps in the Arctic in 2012, the Obama administration indicated a major rethink of the approval process was in order—but instead, Shell got another rubber stamp.

Kamil Ahsan

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A New Poll Has Bernie Sanders Leading Hillary Clinton by 7 Percent in the New Hampshire Primary

New Hampshire seems to be feeling the Bern.

Marc Daalder

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They Voted ‘No’ to Austerity. They Got ‘Yes’ Anyway. What Do Greeks Think About Tsipras Now?

We asked Athenians on the street how they feel about the Syriza leader's acceptance of the EU's terms and the lean times ahead.

Tomás Lynch

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Feticide Laws Are Disproportionately Used Against Women of Color

Purvi Patel's 20-year prison sentence for a miscarriage is part of a larger pattern.

Rachelle Hampton

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Bernie Sanders Speaks to 28,000 People in Portland, While Hillary Hosts $2,700-a-Head Fundraiser

The contrast between candidates could not be more stark.

Zaid Jilani, Alternet

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The Union Behind the Biggest Campaign Against Walmart in History May Be Throwing in the Towel. Why?

With major cuts rumored, the future of the campaign against America's largest private employer is uncertain.

David Moberg

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Yes, ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Is Empowering. No, Having Sex with Your Stepdaughter Is Not Okay.

The film is rightly being cheered for showing a 15-year-old girl claiming sexual power. But the film—and its rave reviews—sometimes shy away from how rape culture and patriarchy can pervert that claim.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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Is Climate Change Causing Pre-traumatic Stress Disorder in Millennials?

Today's youth are coming of age in the age of extinction

Martin de Bourmont and Dayton Martindale

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A Year Post-Ferguson, the Nation’s Youngest and Boldest Movement Debates Reform vs. Revolution

A firsthand report from Cleveland at the first-ever Movement for Black Lives national strategy session.

Rachelle Hampton

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When Detained Immigrant Children Got Adult Dose of Hep A Vaccine, Mothers Objected, To No Avail

250 children at the Dilley, Texas, detention center were improperly vaccinated, even when mothers showed proof of prior vaccinations

Joseph Sorrentino

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It’s Not (Just) a Joking Matter: Why Last Night’s GOP Debate Should Terrify the Left

The race to the right has never been this swift.

Marc Daalder