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Labor

Is China’s Labor Federation Willing to Stand Up for Workers Against Walmart?

Bruce Vail

Feature

Should Progressives Support Soda Taxes?

Cities from Chicago to Philadelphia have experimented with a tax on sweetened beverages. Tom Philpott, Max B. Sawicky and Melina Packer debate the merits.

In These Times Writers

Feature

Challenging Capitalism Can’t Be The Only Focus of the Class Struggle

Bob Herbert’s Against All Odds considers the elusiveness of racial progress when capitalism is looked at in a vacuum.

Ryan Bell

Feature

How a Vegan’s Experience with Disability Is Helping Her Heal the Divide Between Two Movements

Sunaura Taylor's new book finds solidarity with blind dogs and abused chickens.

Troy Vettese

Feature

It’s Time to Nationalize the Internet

To counter the FCC's attack on net neutrality, we need to start treating the Internet like the public good it is.

Julianne Tveten

Feature

The GOP Tax Bill Opened a New Front in the Class War

Republicans just sold out the poor and middle class to enrich the wealthy elite. Next year is an opportunity to take back what's rightfully ours.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Labor

The Trump Labor Board Just Made It Harder for Fast-Food Workers to Hold Corporate Bosses Accountable

Michael Arria

Labor

“We Will Be Out in the Streets”: What’s Next in the Fight Against the GOP Tax Bill

Sarah Jaffe

Rural America

Dollar General: The Store for Rural America’s “Permanent Recession”

Peter Funt

Feature

Why Trump’s Muslim Ban 3.0 Is So Dangerous

The new ban shows us what institutionalized Islamophobia looks like during the Trump era of the War on Terror.

Maha Hilal

Dispatch

How To Catch a Wage Thief

Day laborers in Denver are tracking down runaway employers.

Gigi Sukin

Feature

What Will It Take To Stop Trump’s Muslim Ban?

Movements are gearing up for the fight ahead.

Michelle Chen

Labor

Biggest Labor Stories of 2017: The Attacks From Above and the Fight From Below

Shaun Richman

Labor

Oklahoma Poised To Cut Off 20,000 Disabled and Elderly People From Life-Sustaining Home Care

Rebecca Anger

Rural America

Why Cutting Up Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a Bad Idea

Joseph Bullington

Labor

Trump Dept. of Labor Rule Would Legalize Employers Stealing Workers’ Tips

David Cooper, Economic Policy Institute

Labor

From Amputations to Respiratory Illnesses, New Report Exposes Hazards of Slaughterhouse Work

Anna Casey

Feature

How the Disappearance of an Indigenous Activist Sparked an Uprising in Argentina

A conflict between indigenous communities and capitalist plunderers has long been simmering. The case of Santiago Maldonado brought tensions to a boiling point.

Juan Cruz Ferre