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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

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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

ViewpointPalestineDispatch

Displaced in Gaza: Dispatches

We share their dreams and aspirations, to tell them that there will be a day when the Palestinian people will live in freedom and dignity.

Yousef Aljamal

ViewpointElection 2024

Project 2025 Could Erase More Than 1.7 Million Jobs and Hike Electricity Prices By $32 Billion

A new study shows that the Republican game plan would lead to mass job losses and higher energy costs for consumers.

Yaseen al-Sheikh

Rural America

Study: Because of Pesticides, Living in Farm Towns Is as Risky as Smoking

New research shows that the pesticides used heavily by industrial agriculture contribute to inflated cancer risk in farm country, “with few areas spared.”

Shannon Kelleher

Viewpoint

The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism

While often overlooked, the spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged in the 19th century. It continues to animate the region’s political landscape today.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

ViewpointElection 2024

To Win Over Working-Class Voters, Harris and Other Democrats Should Embrace Economic Populism

New research shows that the key to combating Trumpism lies in targeting economic elites.

Isaac Rabbani and Fred DeVeaux