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Labor

There Is Power in a Pantry

Meet the women who nourished the longest strike in Alabama’s history.

Kim Kelly

Viewpoint

Dark Money Conservatives Have Their Eye on Wisconsin’s Top Court. We Can Stop Them.

Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes on why the upcoming Wisconsin State Supreme Court election is one of the most important elections of his life—and why we should all take notice.

Mandela Barnes

ViewpointClimate

Biden Betrays Youth With Willow Project—and Breaks His Own Promise

We need a youth movement more powerful than the fossil fuel industry. Why Sunrise Movement organizers are fighting to end the fossil fuel era.

Interview

“The People of Chicago Run the City”: Brandon Johnson on His Progressive Vision

We spoke with Chicago mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson about public safety, the housing crisis and building a movement against the neoliberal status quo.

Maximillian Alvarez

Departments

Calling Cop City Activists "Terrorists" Is An Old Government Trick

Several Cop City activists have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism—something that has long been a legal and rhetorical weapon of state power.

Eric Laursen

ViewpointRural America

East Palestine: “We Basically Nuked a Town with Chemicals So We Could Get a Railroad Open”

Companies should never again be allowed to do what Norfolk Southern did to this Ohio community.

Tish O'Dell and Chad Nicholson

LaborViewpoint

Make One Big Higher Ed Union

Campus workers are organizing more than anyone else. It's time for them to unify.

Hamilton Nolan

Protesters shouting, holding signs written in Russian

Departments

The Cracks in the Crystal Ball

Existential crises in the Bread Basket of Europe.

In These Times Editors

Labor

“If They Strike, We Won’t Cross the Picket Line”: LA Teachers And Service Workers Unite

The school district's service workers announced plans to begin a three-day strike on Tuesday. The teachers union has their back.

Megan Giovannetti and Jasmin Joseph

Dispatch

Black Educators Are Reimagining A Better School System

“Black Lives Matter at School is an act of resistance. It’s a refusal to accept the ways that we are perpetually dehumanized. It’s a statement that we exist, that we are here, and that we are going to fight back.”

Henry Hicks IV

Departments

Drug Decriminalization Saves Lives. Why Aren't We Doing It?

Safe consumptions sites are places where people who need help can be treated like people.

In These Times Editors

LaborInterview

IT'S OFFICIAL: Reformer Shawn Fain Wins the UAW Presidency, Talks Plans with Steven Greenhouse in Exclusive Interview

“We need to run contract campaigns where we engage the membership and go after their demands. We haven’t done this in my lifetime.”

Steven Greenhouse

Viewpoint

SVB's Bailout Signals a Financial System Still Rotten to the Core

The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by corruption, financial recklessness and poor decision-making. How much longer will we put up with this?

Branko Marcetic

Viewpoint

Biden’s New Budget Is a Progressive Opening Gambit

While Republicans are proposing to slash social programs, the White House has released a plan to boost policies that help working families while increasing taxes on the rich and corporations.

Max B. Sawicky