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Congress and Biden Allowed the Eviction Ban to Expire, So Cori Bush and AOC Are Raising Hell

Members of the Squad are participating in a sit-in outside of the Capitol demanding that the House reconvene in order to restore the moratorium to protect millions of Americans from being evicted.

Jake Johnson

Watch live online: “An Honest Look at the Climate Crisis” with Bill McKibben

Join us live online for our 45th Anniversary Celebration & Raffle, featuring Bill McKibben and Noam Chomsky.

In These Times Staff

ViewpointRural America

Dear Congress: Say No to Water Privatization in the Infrastructure Bill

Water costs have soared in recent years as federal funding for water infrastructure has shrunk. Privatization is the last thing we need.

Rural America In These Times

Labor

Work Doesn't Have to Destroy Your Soul

How worker cooperatives are creating direct democracy on the job.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Biden Has Abandoned His Covid Worker Safety Pledge

Biden's much-anticipated workplace safety rule excludes most workers—and some in the labor movement are not happy.

Christopher D. Cook

Feature

Congress Tried To Force Trump to End the Yemen War. Now They’ll Have To Do the Same With Biden.

Activists say it's not enough to trust Biden's promises to end U.S. support for the war: Congress must compel him.

Sarah Lazare

Culture

Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?

A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building.

Malkia Devich-Cyril

Climate

Biden's Climate Pledges Are Incompatible with His Belligerence Toward China

Bipartisan saber rattling and spiraling Pentagon budgets threaten to undermine global climate action just when we need it most.

Lorah Steichen

Feature

Why Cubans Protested on July 11

Is this the beginning of the end of fear in Cuba?

Samuel Farber

Labor

We Need a Big National Strike Fund

More successful strikes help the entire labor movement. We should pay for them together.

Hamilton Nolan

Wisconsin’s Incarcerated Fear Summer Heat

Seasonal temperatures exacerbated by climate change and inadequate infrastructure threaten incarcerated people statewide.

Arvind Dilawar

Departments

The "Landback" Movement Would Return Stolen Land to Indigenous Stewardship

Part of the larger decolonization movement, landback is critical in dismantling white supremacy and mitigating climate disaster.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

An Old Idea for a Guaranteed Income Is Back in Style

A new proposal for a negative income tax could eliminate poverty in the United States.

Max B. Sawicky

Viewpoint

We Need Radical Economic Change—Not Biden's Corporate Capitalism

Stimulus packages are not enough. Only practices of deep democracy and shared ownership can end our cycle of economic disaster.

Stacey Sutton

Documentary: Factory Farms Pose an 'Existential Threat' for Rural Wisconsin Communities

Big Agriculture and the factory farming industry are taking over more of the US landscape and farming economy every year. But these rural communities in Wisconsin are fighting back.

Maximillian Alvarez, Cameron Granadino and Hannah Faris

Rural America

While Meatpacking Companies Reap Big Profits, Cattle Ranchers Struggle

Grocery store beef prices are rising. The rancher’s share is falling. And the companies that dominate the highly-concentrated meatpacking industry are making a killing.

Mary Hennigan

Viewpoint

We Don't Have Time for Climate Symbolism

As we hurtle towards climate chaos, Democratic leaders remain all talk and no action on serious climate policy.

Mark Schlosberg

Big Pharma Is Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies in the Global South

The chilling effect of the pharmaceutical industry's veiled threats.

Sarah Lazare and Maurizio Guerrero