Interview

PalestineInterview
The Best Protection For Students Is a Mass Movement
A conversation with Momodou Taal, the Cornell student suing the Trump Administration for repression against students.
Nidaa Lafi and Momodou Taal

InterviewPodcast
A Small Texas Town Takes on Crypto Noise Pollution
The massive new Bitcoin mine is part of a plan to fill in Texas’s energy infrastructure—but it comes at the cost of locals’ health.
Maximillian Alvarez

Interview
The Authoritarian State in Miniature
A conversation with author Talia Lavin on Christian Nationalists’ 50-Year Plan to Capture the Country.
Shane Burley

LaborInterview
Worker-Led Unionism in the 21st Century
Labor scholar Eric Blanc’s new book We Are the Union argues that worker-to-worker organizing can allow unions to scale up and help reverse the labor movement’s long decline.
Nick French

FeatureInterview
Now Is the Time for Big Ideas
A post-inauguration roundtable hosted by Haymarket Books with Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the dismantling of the administrative state and the path to corporate takeover accompanying it
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Chenjerai Kumanyika

InterviewCulture
Kaveh Akbar's Narratives of Love
An exclusive conversation with the bestselling author of Martyr! on the moral crises we're facing.
Aina Marzia

Interview
A Movement to Destroy Democracy
Journalist Katherine Stewart on the Christian Right’s long march towards authoritarianism.
Paul Rosenberg

InterviewPolitics
Trump and the Rise of the Multiracial Right
Scholars Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes on the plastic politics of race in today’s GOP.
Alberto Toscano

LaborInterview
This Labor Leader Who Nearly Unseated a GOP Senator Wants More Working-Class Candidates to Run
Dan Osborn ran as an independent in Nebraska and came close to ousting a two-term Republican incumbent. He’s not done taking on the billionaire class.
Steve Early

PalestineInterview
Our Fight Doesn’t End at Cease-Fire
A conversation with pro-Palestine organizers looking towards the next phase of struggle: disrupting the flow of U.S. weapons to Israel.
Nashwa Bawab

Interview
'We Don't Have The Luxury Of Giving Up'
Five movement organizers discuss the dangerous terrain of a second Trump term—and the critical task of building working-class power.
Miles Kampf-Lassin

LaborInterview
After Biden Blocked Their Strike, Railroad Workers Weigh the Lesser of Two Evils
“I don’t think the screwing that we got in 2022 [is playing] any factor today,” one locomotive engineer says. “I can’t imagine any worker voting for Donald Trump.”
Maximillian Alvarez

Interview
Refusing to be Forgotten in Environmental Sacrifice Zones
Ohioans from East Palestine and Toledo are still imagining and fighting for a healthier future, free from toxic waste and poisoned water.
Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterview
The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI
A discussion with Craig Gent and James Muldoon about the colonial history of tech infrastructure, its human and environmental costs, and how workers around the world are fighting back.
Sarah Jaffe

PalestineInterviewCulture
Poetry Against Imperialism
Mosab Abu Toha, Safia Elhillo, José Olivarez and Jake Skeets discuss the power of poetry in genocidal times.
Porsha Olayiwola

LaborInterview
Why U.S. Labor Has a "Special Responsibility" to Stop Israel's Attacks on Lebanon
In a special interview, UE President Carl Rosen demands an end to U.S. military aid "because our country is the one that enables Israel to do what it’s doing.”
Sarah Lazare

LaborInterview
Union Buttons are Living Labor History
A conversation with Isaac Silver on his upcoming exhibition, Emblems of Solidarity: Union Buttons & Labor History.
Natascha Elena Uhlmann

FeatureInterview
As All Eyes Are on Chicago This Week, Don't Forget What This City is About
A pivotal teachers’ strike, decades of movement building, and a surprising mayoral victory: Chicago organizers built a mass movement that has transformed the city. A roundtable with Alex Han, Katelyn Johnson, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Jesse Sharkey, Tania Unzueta and J. Patrick Patterson.
J. Patrick Patterson

LaborInterview
Debt Is Wage Theft, Debt Steals Leisure Time, Debt Can Suppress Strikes: Debt Is a Labor Issue
A conversation with organizers across industries on how debt shapes the fight for worker power.
Jason Wozniak, Sara Nelson, Brittany Alston, Olivia Schwob, Jackson Potter and Teresa Romero

Interview
“It’s a system that’s rigged. It’s messed up, and we’re the ones that have to bear that burden."
At a jubilee in Leimert Park, Debt Collective spoke with residents from across Los Angeles about their debts. What we found was solidarity and resistance.
Maddy Clifford

FeatureInterview
What Is the World We Are Imagining Beyond Debt?
A special roundtable on debt abolition and racial capitalism—and how we can organize for a future beyond accumulation. Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Alex Han, Robin G. Kelley, René Moya and Derecka Purnell.
Jalil Mustaffa Bishop

LaborInterviewPodcast
“Patients should not be treated like commodities”: Baltimore Nurses Are Fighting for a Transformative First Contract
Understaffing leaves nurses pulled in multiple directions and unable to offer optimal care. These nurses are fighting to change that.
Maximillian Alvarez

LaborInterviewPodcast
Flooding in Brazil Has Displaced More Than 600,000 People From Their Homes as States Slash Prevention Funding
“Underneath is this deep-seated trauma that will last for years and decades and sometimes lifetimes for people.”
Maximillian Alvarez

InterviewCulture
Goodbye Julia Brings Sudan Front and Center
Director Mohamed Kordofani discusses how the film became a powerful exploration of injustice and reconciliation.
Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.