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Punk Rock Karaoke

A love letter to Midwestern punks.

Bianca Xunise

ViewpointPalestine

New York Times Repeats U.S. Government’s Evidence-Free Claim That Gaza Protests Are Part of Iranian Plot

Where is the actual evidence that Iranian operatives “posing as students” are helping organize and fund campus protests over the war on Gaza?

Adam Johnson

LaborViewpoint

The Weird and Stupid Teamsters Non-Endorsement Fiasco

Refusing to endorse a presidential candidate will do nothing to stop Trump and the GOP’s war on workers.

Hamilton Nolan

Departments

The Big Idea: Ethanol

The United States is the world’s largest producer of corn, most of it is grown in the Midwest, and almost all gasoline sold in the United States contains ethanol, a corn-based renewable additive to fuel.

J. Patrick Patterson

Viewpoint

Exiting Prison With No Money, No Credit and No Way to Avoid Debt

How the consequences of incarceration and reentry create financial–and social–debt.

Calvin John Smiley

Viewpoint

Fighting Privatization Is Good for Mental Health

Dedicated community leaders and persistent organizing are helping make Chicago’s new expansion of public mental health services a reality.

Elena Gormley

Viewpoint

Low-Wage Corporations Are Fleecing Their Workers to Massively Inflate CEO Pay

Why don’t low wage workers earn more? Because their bosses plowed $522 million into manipulating their stock price—and CEO paychecks—instead.

Sarah Anderson

Departments

Debtor Organizing Can Transform Our Individual Financial Struggles Into a Source of Collective Strength

Alone, our debt is a liability. Together, it’s our leverage.

J. Patrick Patterson

Labor

Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, 2014–2016

United Teachers Los Angeles’ transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative union power, writes former UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl.

Alex Caputo-Pearl

Labor

The Baristas Who Took Over Their Café

Baltimore’s 230-year-old tradition of workplace democracy is experiencing a revival.

Osita Nwanevu

Can a National Strike Save a Closed Plant? A Town Depends On It.

The UAW is calling up locals to stand by Stellantis workers in Belvidere, Ill., who were promised a reopening.

Sarah Lazare

EWOC Is Modeling a Path Forward for Labor

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is providing crucial lessons for unions and organizing everywhere. It might be an example of labor’s best bet.

Eric Blanc

ViewpointElection 2024

Kamala Harris Says “We’re Not Going Back.” But What’s Her Plan Forward?

In last night’s presidential debate, Harris outperformed Trump. Yet she was light on policy specifics and failed to articulate how her agenda would mark a clean break from the past.

Branko Marcetic

Comics

New Midwest Comics: Sewer Socialists and Police Snipers

Kirk Anderson and Nate Powell

"Grief Is a Rupture": Sarah Jaffe's New Book on Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

In her new book "From the Ashes" In These Times columnist Sarah Jaffe examines the intersections between grief and organizing for a better world.

Sarah Jaffe

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide

Right-wing operatives are channeling the genocide in Gaza into mainstream antisemitism.

Ben Lorber

After Weekend Walkouts, Hotel Worker Strikes Grow on Labor Day

"We refuse to accept wages that can't support our families. It's insulting. And it ends now."

Jessica Corbett

FeatureInvestigation

The Treacherous Paths Out of Modi's India

The last thing Sukhwinder Singh remembered was crossing through knee-deep water near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona. When he finally awoke, he learned that his passage to the land of opportunity had cost him an arm and both legs.

Makepeace Sitlhou