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Labor
A Trailblazing New Law in Illinois Will Dramatically Expand Temp Workers’ Rights
Jeff Schuhrke
Feature
Trump Chides Puerto Rico Expenses While U.S. Gives $15 Billion a Year to Fossil Fuel Companies
The president's upside-down priorities were on full display during his visit to Puerto Rico on Tuesday.
Kate Aronoff
Culture
The Cradle-to-Grave Coalition
On funerals and socialist revivals.
Jane Miller
Feature
Puerto Rico and Why Climate Reparations Must Know No Borders
U.S. citizenship must not be a litmus test for who deserves to survive the climate crisis.
Sarah Lazare
Feature
Trump Is Bringing Us to the Brink of War with North Korea—Where Is the Anti-War Movement?
The only way forward on North Korea is peace. But first we need dialogue.
Christine Ahn
Rural America
An Industrial Chemical Poisoned Their Water, Now Upstate New Yorkers Want to Know What Replaced It
Tracy Frisch
Labor
Meet the Management-Side Lawyer Who Called ICE on Workers Suing Their Bosses
Ted Rohrlich, FairWarning
Feature
America Wasn’t a “Gun-Loving Country” Until a $13.5 Billion Industry Made It So
Historian Pamela Haag’s The Gunning of America refocuses the gun debate on the moguls who made America into the land of guns -- and mass shootings.
Steve Ryfle
Culture
Top Four Reads for the Red Centennial
Books about Bolsheviks.
In These Times Staff
Labor
The Trump Administration’s Backdoor Plan to Erode the Rights of Workers to Act Collectively
Moshe Z. Marvit
Feature
We Still Don’t Know How Many Have Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria
There could be hundreds more dead than is currently being reported in the official tally.
Omaya Sosa Pascual
Labor
SCOTUS Is on the Verge of Decimating Public-Sector Unions—But Workers Can Still Fight Back
Shaun Richman
Labor
Hugh Hefner Wasn’t Just a Creep—He Was Also a Shitty Boss
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
Labor
What’s Worse Than Airline Food? The Catering Companies Selling It.
s.e.smith
Rural America
Foreign Control of U.S. Farmland has Recently Doubled, And the USDA Doesn’t Know Who Owns What
Johnathan Hettinger
Labor
Robert Reich: Trump and the GOP’s New Tax Plan Is a Giant Gift to the 1%
Robert Reich
Feature
Puerto Rico’s Isolated Mountain Communities Are Rapidly Running Out of Food And Water
The federal, national and municipal governments have still not cleared the way into at least nine neighborhoods in Utuado, the third largest municipality in Puerto Rico.
Eliván Martínez Mercado
Labor
The Left Needs Its Own Shock Doctrine for Puerto Rico
Sarah Jaffe
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