Palestine

The Unseen Battle for Food in Gaza

"We are not only suffering from bombs, starvation is used as a weapon against Gazans."

Iman Al-Haj

Two Parties, One Genocide

Palestinians in Chicago reflect on a year of genocide and an election where Democrats supported policies that fuel violence against them while asking for their votes.

Nashwa Bawab

The Election Is Over and the Bombs Are Still Dropping. We Have to Stop Them.

We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo.

Saqib Bhatti

We Resigned Over U.S. Support for Genocide—But Are Voting for Harris

"We are not defending the two-party system whose shortcomings are blindingly clear—but in this election, if Kamala Harris loses, then Donald Trump wins."

Lily Greenberg Call and Harrison Mann

Video: Can Kamala Harris Find Voters In Dearborn?

"People here have families that are originally from the exact towns and villages that are being bombed with American weapons."

Afeef Nessouli

Pro-Palestine Student Activists at HBCUs Are Divided on How to Vote

In North Carolina and Georgia, some say they are casting a vote to save our democracy while others say they are withholding theirs to save the world.

Alexis Wray

It's Not Too Late for Kamala Harris to Earn Votes Like Mine

Harris can win thousands of votes across the country, including in key swing states, by calling for an arms embargo.

Saqib Bhatti

Uncommitted Co-Founder Says Trump Is "Preying on the Pain of Arab and Muslim American Voters"

Abbas Alawieh says he will vote for Harris "as a Democratic strategist and as someone who’s in a swing state," but is "still terrified by the vacuum that she’s leaving."

In These Times Staff

Project for the Old American Century

What Harris’ embrace of the Cheneys tells us about Democrats’ worldview.

Alberto Toscano

“The Children,” James Baldwin Wrote, “Are Always Ours, Every Single One of Them"

Saqib Bhatti laments the unbearable task of parenting during genocide—from the United States to Gaza.

Saqib Bhatti

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Challenging the Cognitive Dissonance of Pro-Israel Liberalism

Coates is taking critiques of Zionism into the mainstream, chipping away at Israel’s increasingly dubious liberal self-image.

Adam Johnson

Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

The mayor’s silence on the Armenian genocide mirrors his refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Jesse Hagopian

Black-Palestinian Solidarity in Moments of Crisis and Beyond

A year into Israel's war in Gaza, four activists working at the intersection of Black and Palestinian liberation discuss the genocide, the upcoming U.S. election and the power of international solidarity.

Nashwa Bawab

School Curriculum Supports the Genocide. Here’s How Teachers Can Push Back.

Bill Bigelow

What Happened to Protest Music?

The success of Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" offers hope for a resurgence of protest music.

Ivie Ani

Poetry Against Imperialism

Mosab Abu Toha, Safia Elhillo, José Olivarez and Jake Skeets discuss the power of poetry in genocidal times.

Porsha Olayiwola

A Fateful Year: How It Feels to Lose Gaza

A year after October 7, In These Times contributor Yousef Aljamal reflects on the complete destruction of Gaza and the deaths of so many friends and family members.

Yousef Aljamal

A SWANA Space to Exist

As we pass one year of genocide, Salon Kawakib will not be silenced and we will celebrate our own anniversary: two years of cultural organizing and building community in Chicago.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel