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Nationalize the Fossil Fuel Industry

For a big problem, we need big solutions.

Carla Skandier

Labor

An Affordable Housing Movement Is Rising from the Wreckage of the Foreclosure Crisis

Michael Arria

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What the South Can Teach the Rest of the Country About Resisting the Right

A conversation with organizers of the Southern Movement Assembly, a convergence of bottom-up organizations rooted in Black struggle.

Sarah Jaffe

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Robert Reich: The GOP Tax Bill Is Everything That’s Wrong With Our Democracy

The Republican plan will hurt the poor, enrich the wealthy and make GOP campaign donors very happy.

Robert Reich

Rural America

Wisconsin Dairy Farmer to GOP: Your Estate Tax Claims Are Bogus

Jim Goodman

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“It Is the Young People Who Will Free Us”: Resisting Militarized Violence, from Honduras to Chicago

A transnational conversation between organizers.

Gaspar Sánchez and Veronica Morris-Moore

Culture

Celebrate the 40th Birthday of the Combahee River Collective Statement

Essential books by radical women of color—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Barbara Ransby, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ida B. Wells and more.

In These Times Staff

Labor

Second City Has Been a Comedy Mecca for Decades. Now Its Workers Are Voting to Form a Union.

Yana Kunichoff

Labor

Fight for $15 Just Scored a Big Win in Maryland. We Have Unions to Thank.

Bruce Vail

Dispatch

The Sunshine State’s Still Berning: Bringing the Political Revolution to Miami

Tomas Kennedy and the rise of South Beach socialism.

Rob Wile

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Undocumented Communities Devastated By Calif. Wildfires Are Now Being Left Out of Federal Relief

Grassroots fundraising efforts aim to prevent undocumented immigrants from slipping through the cracks.

Julianne Tveten

Rural America

Upton Sinclair is Dead and the Food Industry has the Trump Admin. Right Where It Wants It

Alana Toulin

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The Elephants in the Resistance: Don’t Trust the Anti-Trump Republicans

Sen. Jeff Flake and his ilk aren’t the heroes we’re looking for.

Rick Perlstein

Culture

The Personal Is Not Always Political

The problem with the media’s individualistic response to collective tragedy.

Leon Fink

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As the Trump Admin. Gives Fossil Fuels Industry the Floor at COP23, Hundreds of Protesters Shut Out

Representatives from fossil fuels companies were invited to speak on a panel alongside White House officials.

Kate Aronoff

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100 Years of Colonialism: How Puerto Rico Became Easy Prey for Profiteers

From U.S. policies to cronyism to vulture finance, the real disaster is human made.

Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, In These Times

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Jerry Brown Lashes Out at COP23 Climate Protesters: “Let’s Put You in the Ground”

Activists interrupted Brown at the UN climate conference calling to keep fossil fuels in the ground and pursue more radical solutions.

Kate Aronoff

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Alias Grace Is Even More Relevant to Trump’s America Than The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid's Tale is used as a catch-all feminist allegory. But it's the specificity of Alias Grace, Netflix's latest Margaret Atwood adaptation, that makes it so pertinent.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle