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Federal Whistleblowers Choose Oath Over Safety, Urge Intervention in HUD

As the Trump administration dismantles HUD’s Office of General Counsel and Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, whistleblowers call for federal workers to unionize and unite.

Maximillian Alvarez

Podcast

“You Are Not Alone”: Federal Whistleblowers on Being Terminated, Speaking Truth To Power

One week after going public about the dismantlement of the HUD Office of Fair Housing under the new Trump administration, Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan were fired. They say it was worth it.

Maximillian Alvarez

Podcast

Microsoft Terminates Elite Israeli Intelligence Unit’s Access to AI and Storage Services

The tech giant’s move, which suspends the use of parts of its proprietary software by Israel’s Unit 8200, came after months of escalation by organizers and activists within the company.

Maximillian Alvarez

Departments

What We Need Is a Popular Front Against Fascism

As fascism's grip only grows tighter, the popular fronts of yesterday can become blueprints for solidarity today.

J. Patrick Patterson

Podcast

Texas Professor Terminated Over a Fascist's Doctored Video

The latest target in MAGA’s campaign against higher education details the proceedings against him and the collective organizing effort behind him.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

On the Trail with Zohran

A Sunday of hope as Mamdani speaks to canvassers in Bed-Stuy ahead of the mayoral election on November 4

Hamilton Nolan

HousingPolitics

Eviction By ICE?

Federal immigration agents appear to have targeted Chicago tenants in “deliberate and systematic ways.” They’re still searching for answers about their landlord’s role in the raid.

Rebecca Burns

Politics

Is Economic Populism the Key to Winning Over Rust Belt Voters?

A new study from the Center for Working-Class Politics shows that voters in battleground states want fairness, accountability and immediate relief from rising costs. The results could point the way forward for a Democratic Party stuck in the wilderness.

Jared Abbott

Rural America

In North Carolina, Immigrants Resist the U.S. “Language Graveyard”

Speakers of Hñähñu, an Indigenous language from what is now Mexico, are banding together to preserve their culture.

Anya Petrone Slepyan

Politics

The Biggest Threat to Mamdani’s Agenda Isn’t Trump—It’s Wall Street

Wall Street destroyed New York City’s social welfare economy in 1975. Avoiding that fate under Mayor Mamdani will require popular movements to discipline the super rich.

Michael Beyea Reagan

Palestine

Recognizing Palestinian Statehood Is the Floor. Liberation Must Be the Ceiling.

One by one, nations formally recognized the State of Palestine. But what does that mean with Gaza reduced to rubble?

Hend Salama Abo Helow

LaborPolitics

The Data Brokers Fueling ICE’s Deportation Machine—And the Union Shareholders Fighting Back

"As investors, we are thinking about this as a risk to our investments, but also as a social and ethical issue.”

Maurizio Guerrero

FeatureCover Story

American Narcissus

Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet extraordinarily self-assured, morally bankrupt, intellectually barren and as empty as a shattered amphora.

Kim Kelly

Dispatch

Chicago Day Laborer, in ICE Detention, Says He’s Facing Retaliation Because Supporters Are Protesting His Abduction

“I was targeted for transfer to prevent my supporters from helping me.”

Sarah Lazare

Politics

Seven Million Turn Out for “No Kings” Protests Nationwide. Next Up, Massive Disruptions Backed by Unions?

People from across the country marched. Now what?

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborDepartments

Pensions: "Captives of Wall Street"

We revisit Marc Weiss' take on pensions and power in this 1979 review of the book The North Will Rise Again by Rifkin and Barber.

In These Times Editors

Dispatch

“They’re Not Welcome”: How Chicago Residents Are Resisting Trump’s ICE Invasion of the City

As ICE wreaks chaos and violence in neighborhoods across Chicago, teams of rapid responders are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation by fighting fear through solidarity.

Danny Postel

ViewpointPolitics

Charlie Kirk and the Free Speech Hoax

The Right doesn't really care about free speech, and their reaction to the murder of Charlie Kirk proves it.

Shane Burley