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The Texas mega-chain is looking to expand across the nation, polluting air and water, crowding small town streets, and paving over cultural sites.
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Viewpoint
Notes From an Arab on Surviving Trump
If the evil of this place is just now catching up with your own life, you have probably been one of the more fortunate.
Eman Abdelhadi
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It's Up to the Left to Do What's Right
Executive Director Alex Han urges readers of In These Times to understand and develop strategies against the Right.
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Why It's Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of Capitalism
Capitalism is not the only way to organize our society. To move beyond it, the Left needs to imagine viable alternatives.
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Will The Zionist Dream of Ethnically Cleansing Gaza Work?
Trump and Netanyahu Want to Clear Gaza of Palestinians. Apparently they haven't met us.
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Why Trump's Tariffs Are a Losing Bet to Keep China at Bay and Remake the Global Order
Trump's plans around tariffs and annexation resemble a new Monroe Doctrine, but it’s a recipe that only leads to economic collapse—and war.
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Labor
The Big Bank Plotting to Privatize the Post Office Under Trump
A newly released memo from banking giant Wells Fargo outlines a predatory scheme to dismantle the U.S. postal service: sell off profitable parts, slash union jobs and raise prices by up to 140 percent.
Paul Prescod
Labor
For Labor, Caution Is Fatal
The riskiest course is to stay the course.
Stephen Lerner
Interview
A Movement to Destroy Democracy
Journalist Katherine Stewart on the Christian Right’s long march towards authoritarianism.
Paul Rosenberg
Palestine
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
Mahmoud Khalil
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A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali
With urgency and wit, this political art remains a bastion for Palestinian liberation and as pertinent as ever.
In These Times Editors
LaborViewpoint
The Labor Movement Should Stand Up for Mahmoud Khalil
Unions have a moral imperative to defend against illegal attacks on political speech. That means demanding justice for Mahmoud Khalil.
Jimmy Williams Jr.
Palestine
A Love Letter to the Student Movement
Repression of the Palestine movement is now here, so what must be done? Four practical steps for the next phase.
Carrie Zaremba
Khalil Case Shows How Migrant Justice and Palestine Solidarity Are Tied Together
The detention of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil was made possible by the normalization of deportation.
Silky Shah
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Mass strikes? Escalating disruptions? The call for unified action on May 2028 presents real opportunity if we start now.
Stephanie Luce
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Sheriffs Already Have Too Much Power. Who Will Stop Them Now?
Trump hosted more White House meetings with sheriffs than any other president in U.S. history. <i>The Highest Law in the Land</i> uncovers the overlooked horrors they commit.
Raina Lipsitz
InterviewPolitics
Trump and the Rise of the Multiracial Right
Scholars Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes on the plastic politics of race in today’s GOP.
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