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In the Shadow of the Obama Center, Chicago Residents Fight Displacement
Investors are snapping up homes in the South Shore neighborhood, but a new tenants union is fighting back.
Fran Quigley
ViewpointElection 2024
The Warning Signs for Kamala Harris's Campaign Are Flashing Red
With only weeks left until Election Day, Harris can go from underdog to frontrunner by winning over working-class and anti-war voters.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Viewpoint
Jews and Democrats Are Not Sending Hurricanes to Kill Trump Supporters
How climate change conspiracy theories are shifting attention from systemic causes to convenient scapegoats.
Shane Burley
Culture
We Caught Up with Tkay Maidza, Akenya and Angry Blackmen to Talk About Their Sonic World Building
With summer festival season behind them, musicians Tkay Maidza, Akenya and Angry Blackmen look ahead.
DMB (D-M Brown)
LaborViewpoint
Winning Worker Rights Requires Fixing U.S. Democracy
Gerrymandering and the filibuster are holding back wage increases, the right to unionize and other benefits for workers. 
Paul Sonn
PalestineElection 2024
Black-Palestinian Solidarity in Moments of Crisis and Beyond
A year into Israel's war in Gaza, four activists working at the intersection of Black and Palestinian liberation discuss the genocide, the upcoming U.S. election and the power of international solidarity.
Nashwa Bawab
ViewpointPalestine
School Curriculum Supports the Genocide. Here’s How Teachers Can Push Back.
Bill Bigelow
ViewpointPalestineCulture
What Happened to Protest Music?
The success of Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" offers hope for a resurgence of protest music.
Ivie Ani
PalestineInterviewCulture
Poetry Against Imperialism
Mosab Abu Toha, Safia Elhillo, José Olivarez and Jake Skeets discuss the power of poetry in genocidal times.
Porsha Olayiwola
ViewpointPalestine
A Fateful Year: How It Feels to Lose Gaza
A year after October 7, In These Times contributor Yousef Aljamal reflects on the complete destruction of Gaza and the deaths of so many friends and family members.
Yousef Aljamal
Labor
After Historic Chattanooga Win, the UAW Is Bargaining for Better Conditions at Volkswagen
Volkswagen workers and the United Auto Workers are hoping a contract with the automaker can reverberate across the South.
Sarah Jaffe
ViewpointPalestine
A SWANA Space to Exist
As we pass one year of genocide, Salon Kawakib will not be silenced and we will celebrate our own anniversary: two years of cultural organizing and building community in Chicago.
Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
ClimateRural America
Trump Meets Hurricane Victims then Heads to Fundraisers with the Oil Bosses Driving the Climate Crisis
"Hosting a fundraiser with Big Oil CEOs while we're still counting the bodies from Hurricane Helene is like hosting a fundraiser with the NRA in the midst of a school shooting.”
Edward Carver
Viewpoint
The High Stakes of Mapping the Midwest
How can a state continue to be deadlocked with a legislature controlled by Trumpian Republicans when it’s been busy electing not just Democrats but, in many cases, progressive Democrats?
John Nichols
ViewpointElection 2024
Faux Populism Takes Center Stage at Vice-Presidential Debate
Tuesday’s debate offers Democrats a warning about how much more appealing Trumpism can be when presented in an equally mendacious but more competent way.
Akil Vicks
CultureDepartments
Freedom of Expression, Unless It’s Your Hair
To dismantle texturism, we first need to acknowledge its existence.
J. Patrick Patterson
ViewpointClimate
Citibank Is Bankrolling The Largest Offshore Oil Facility In the U.S.—Just Miles From My Home
As part of the historic Summer of Heat campaign, I went to Citibank’s headquarters to demand climate justice—where dozens of protesters were arrested.
Sue Page
LaborPalestineInvestigation
U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists
A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.
Shane Burley
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