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One Rural County’s Battle to Stop a Pipeline From Slicing Through Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, Penn. is rising up against the $3 billion Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline.
Michael Deibert
Labor
Silicon Valley’s Techno-Capitalists Have a Low-Wage Worker Revolt on Their Hands
Julianne Tveten
Feature
“Not Here, Not in My Town”: Charlottesville Black Lives Matter on Why We Must All Resist Fascism
A member of Black Lives Matter argues we must not ignore white supremacy: We must actively oppose it.
Sarah Lazare
Culture
Sword-and-Sorcery Into Plowshares: Game of Thrones’ Anti-War Message
The hit HBO drama makes a carefully constructed argument for the futility of war.
Sean T. Collins
Rural America
Rural Stories Making Headlines (August 13, 2017)
Emeline Posner
Feature
Everything TransCanada Didn’t Want Nebraska’s Regulators To Know About Keystone XL
Tribes and other anti-pipeline advocates say Big Money may have kept Nebraska's public service commission from hearing the whole story.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
The U.S.-Occupied Colony In the Crosshairs of Trump’s Reckless Brinkmanship with North Korea
Guam's residents do not get to vote for U.S. president, but they are directly impacted by Trump's dangerous threats.
Carlos Ballesteros
Rural America
Don’t Be Fooled by the Limelight on Lifestyle as a Cancer Risk
Laura Orlando
Culture
Judginess Built the Middle Class
A new book explores the 19th-century origins of middle-class respectability—and the misfits kept out of the club.
Margaret Garb
Feature
Generals and Cops Trained by the Pentagon Are Staging Coups All Over the World
U.S. trained and educated officers are toppling governments and expanding American proxy power.
Nick Turse
Culture
Heart of Whiteness: The Stories Western Philanthropists Tell Themselves
Why do Western efforts to help the environment and Africa so often fail?
Laura Orlando
Labor
Elon Musk May Be a “Visionary,” But His Vision Doesn’t Seem To Include Unions
Michael Arria
Labor
A Working-Class Strategy for Defeating White Supremacy
Gabriel Kristal
Introducing the New In These Times
A new magazine for new times.
Joel Bleifuss
Labor
Investigation: Illinois’ Wage Theft Bill Actually Made Things Worse
Melissa Sanchez and Matt Kiefer
Feature
Trump Promised to Revive Keystone XL—But TransCanada May Not Even Want to Build It Anymore
The fate of the Keystone XL Pipeline will be decided in hearings this week in Lincoln, Nebraska, but one question remains unanswered.
Kate Aronoff
Feature
The Athletes, the Street Artists, the Troublemakers and the Ones Who Say “No”
Excavating the revolutionary history of the Southwest Youth Collaborative.
Page May
Rural America
Youngstown Residents Push to Oust Corporations from Election Campaigns, Cap Contributions at $100
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