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Labor

The Judges Cops Want: These Candidates Have Been Endorsed By Chicago’s Police Union

Alex V. Hernandez

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The Two-Party System Is Facing Its Biggest Challenge In 70 Years

From Maine to Missouri, states are bucking the establishment to push radical electoral reforms.

Theo Anderson

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Let’s Reclaim St. Patrick’s Day From Kellyanne Conway and Mike Pence

Progressives can celebrate St. Paddy's day by reviving the long, proud Irish tradition of standing with immigrants and refugees.

Molly M. Ginty

Labor

Let’s Challenge Corporate Democrats and Fight for a Universal Jobs Guarantee

Sarah Jaffe

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Opinion: When an Elected Official Goes Full Racist, It’s Time To Go Negative

How a Chicago community is pushing back against the racist comments of a local official.

Bassem Kawar and Muhammad Sankari

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Neoliberals Are Taking All the Wrong Lessons From Conor Lamb’s Victory

Lamb ran as an anti-establishment, labor-backed candidate who defended the welfare state. To keep winning, Democrats will need to embrace a bold, redistributive program.

Kate Aronoff

Labor

The VA Is the Closest Thing We Have to Single Payer. Now Trump Wants to Privatize It.

Bryce Covert

Rural America

Poll: Farmers Overwhelmingly Oppose Bayer-Monsanto Merger, Call For Antitrust Division to Reject Bid

Patrick Davis

Culture

Working Night and Day, for 1,000 Years

A new book tells the hidden history of work—on and off the job.

Joanna Scutts

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Trump Is Handing the State Department Over from Exxon Mobil to the Tea Party

The likely next Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a Koch-funded, far-right ideologue who supports torture, denies climate change, disparages Muslims and sounds thirsty for war.

Stephen Zunes

Labor

An Oakland Coal Terminal Is Officially Stalled—Thanks To a Labor-Environmental Alliance

Sarah Lahm

Labor

The West Virginia Teachers’ Strike Has Activists Asking: Should We Revive the Wildcat?

Shaun Richman

Dispatch

How Obama and Trump Turned Their Backs on Haitians

In a Tijuana church, dozens of migrants remain stranded.

Maya Averbuch

Rural America

A Native Coalition is Fighting for a Better 2018 Farm Bill

Kim Baca

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If We Want to Support Refugees, We Need To End the Wars That Create Them

The sanctuary movement needs an anti-war voice.

Azadeh Shahshahani and Maha Hilal

Dispatch

Environmentalists Are Teaming Up With Immigrant Rights Activists To Stop Trump’s Border Wall

In South Texas, a community rallies to protect both its wildlife and residents.

Yvonne S. Marquez

Viewpoint

Should We Primary Every Democrat?

Three views on left electoral strategy ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

In These Times Writers

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This Progressive New Mexican Could Become the First Native-American Woman in Congress

Deb Haaland is running on a platform of Medicare-for-all, marijuana decriminalization, and renewable energy.

Kate Aronoff