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The People the Left Lost to the Anti-Abortion Movement

After <i>Roe</i>, the Church and the Right outmaneuvered us for the moral high ground.

In These Times Editors

Wisconsin Hay Farmers vs. Big Ag

A conversation with Lisa Doerr, co-owner of a hay farm in Polk County that supplies food for small-scale livestock farmers in the area.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Strike Wave Is a Big Flashing Sign That We Need More New Union Organizing

If you want more strikes, make more union members.

Teamster Insurgents Could Win Their Union Election

They're planning for what comes after.

The Pentagon Is Still Lying About the Deadly U.S. Drone Program

A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties.

Leonard C. Goodman

Dollar General Workers Stare Down Historic Union Vote, Vowing "We're Gonna Fight"

With little national attention, a Connecticut Dollar General store could soon help unions crack a vital low-wage industry.

Afro-Indigenous People in Honduras Are Being Forcibly Displaced. Washington Is Complicit.

Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in our homes. It’s Washington that’s making it difficult.

The U.S. Finally Found a Way to Reduce Child Poverty. Why Are Some Democrats Opposed?

While the expanded child tax credit has been a win-win for families and the economy, conservative Democrats in Congress are still finding ways to undermine it.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Sally Rooney’s Latest Novel Shows There’s No Room for Marxism in the Professional-Managerial Class

Not every college-educated professional gets to be wealthy. <i>Beautiful World, Where Are You</i> dramatizes the internal class conflict brewing among upper-middle class elites.

Sohale Andrus Mortazavi

The Small-Town Beekeeper Facing Down Big Ag

A conversation with rural Wisconsin beekeeper Kristy Lynn Allen.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Wisconsin Idea

The Momnibus Act Protects Wisconsin’s Black Babies from a Premature Death

The proposed legislation would achieve what “bias” training alone does not.

Kavin Senapathy

ViewpointRural America

Mourn the Extinct, Fight like Hell for the Living — a Wildlife Reporter’s Plea

The 23 species declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show us how much we have to lose. They should also motivate us to fight to stop further loss.

In Middle America, Unions and Democrats Are Sleepwalking Into the Grave

By not organizing in decimated post-industrial towns, we're ceding ground to the right wing.

The Wisconsin Idea

Wisconsin Lawmakers Propose $25 Million Package to Help Farmers

The proposed bills would create stronger connections between farmers and local institutions such as schools, hospitals and food banks; increase access to mental health services.

A New Group to Organize College Football Players Just Launched. Incredible Timing.

After last week's NLRB memo made the unionization of college athletes a possibility, the CFBPA could become very important.

IATSE Entertainment Workers Are on the Verge of Their First National Strike

Workers are targeting the streaming industry, which has profited massively during the pandemic.

Hollywood’s Overworked Crews Overwhelmingly Vote to Authorize a Strike

IATSE members discuss how workers in the entertainment industry have been run into the ground—and why they're fighting back.

Maximillian Alvarez

Minneapolis Is About to Vote on Whether to Dismantle the Police

Will the city at the center of last summer's racial justice protests decide to remake public safety? We'll soon find out.