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Hawai‘i’s Managed Retreat Proposal Offers an Early Model for Relocation—At a Cost
As seas rise, middle- and working-class Hawaiians worry they’ll be forced out of their homes, while the rich rebuild.
Alex Lubben
Labor
Why the NCAA Should Pay Student-Athletes—And Let Them Unionize
Brian Wakamo
Viewpoint
Chicago’s Elections Brought a Lot of Good News for Progressives—and Democratic Socialists
Rahm Emanuel is gone, and a new crop of left-wing city council members is coming to power.
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
Labor
Education Privatizers Have Gone Global. So Must We If We Want to Stop Them.
Christian Addai-Poku and Michael Galant
Labor
Fighting Against Racism—And For a Better Paycheck—On the Docks
Shaun Richman
Culture
We Were Against ICE Before It Existed
The criminalization of immigrants goes back well before ICE’s inception.
In These Times Editors
Viewpoint
The Case for Using Ranked Choice Voting in the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries
To make the 2020 primary campaign more democratic, we should demand a system that takes all voter preferences into account. That system is ranked choice voting.
Adam Eichen
Feature
Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.
The new bill could keep H&R Block and Intuit’s profits high—while keeping your taxes complicated to file.
Elizabeth Zach
Feature
The Media Must Face Up to Its Role in Inflaming a Frenzy Over Russiagate
By claiming Trump was colluding with Putin, media outlets distracted from the president’s overt crimes while escalating tensions with Russia. They should own up to their failures.
Branko Marcetic
Labor
We Won Sick Days at Macy’s—And We Did It With Style
Nichole Booker and Curtisy Bryant
Feature
Both Chicago Mayoral Candidates Claim to Be Progressive. Here’s a Close Look Into Their Records.
Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle have each run under the “progressive” mantle. Yet their records—and conversations with movement organizers—tell a more complicated story.
Camille Erickson
Labor
Labor Law Doesn’t Apply If You’re in Prison
Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard
Dispatch
Activists Sue LaGrange, Georgia, for Denying Water, Gas and Electricity to Undocumented Immigrants
Without a Social Security number and U.S.-issued photo ID, you can’t get basic utilities in cities across the South.
Allison Salerno
Labor
A Blow But Not Fatal: 9 Months After Janus, AFSCME Reports 94% Retention
Heather Gies
Feature
Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker
There’s a reason Bill Gates loves Pinker and Rosling—their analyses obscure inequality.
Roland Paulsen
Feature
A Healthcare Industry Built on Premature Death
On the cruelty of private healthcare corporations.
Roqayah Chamseddine
Labor
Illinois Manufacturing Workers Locked Out and Fired for One-Hour Strike
Hannah Steinkopf-Frank
Culture
Black Women, Let Your Anger Out
Chronic stress is killing us. We can’t keep repressing our rage.
Joshunda Sanders
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