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How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Jeopardize National Security

We are a "base nation," with soldiers and military bases circling the entire world.

David Vine

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Ten Thousand Is Not Enough: Why The U.S. Must Take More Syrian Refugees

Millions of Syrians have been forced from their homeland due to a conflict that we inflamed

Marc Daalder

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Freddie Gray Case Set To Be Tried in Baltimore—For Now

The trials of the six officers charged in Gray's death are currently set to begin October 13.

Caitlin Goldblatt

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Holy Crap: New Poll Puts Bernie Sanders Ahead of Hillary Clinton in Iowa

Iowa is feeling the Bern.

Karen Gwee

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‘Best of Enemies’ Provides a View of Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley and the 1960s From the Bathroom

The new documentary contains lots of shouting but only passing hints at substance.

Kevin Schultz

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Slavoj Zizek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism

The refugees won't all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist.

Slavoj Žižek

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English-Only To the Core

What the Common Core means for emergent bilingual youth

Jeff Bale

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How Common Core Hurts English Language Learners

Teachers say the new standards exacerbate the disconnect between policy and practice.

Jose Luis Vilson

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Silicon Valley’s Labor Uprising

Unions are spreading like wildfire through tech's low-wage workforce

s.e. smith

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A New Plan for American Cities To Free Themselves of Wall Street’s Control

Arbitrary financial fees are sucking cities and states dry. But they can change the terms if they band together and bargain collectively.

Saqib Bhatti

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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