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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
ViewpointPalestineElection 2024
The Democratic Convention Failed the Palestine Movement
The Uncommitted movement made modest demands on the Democratic Party toward ending the agony in Gaza, and the party rejected them. But their demands cannot be ignored by Democratic power brokers forever.
Hadas Thier
FeatureElection 2024Climate
A "Sustainable Square Mile" Tests the Power of Biden's Billions for Climate Justice
Can $3 billion in hyperlocal funding for environmental justice create lasting change?
Adam Mahoney
ViewpointElection 2024
A Missed Opportunity for Kamala Harris at the DNC
In her acceptance speech, Harris chose to embrace Republican language on the economy—even if she backs a more progressive approach.
Sonali Kolhatkar
ViewpointClimateRural America
Two Years and $300 Billion into Biden’s Climate Plan, Emissions Are Higher than Ever
Green energy and fossil fuels are rising hand in hand. The growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken.
Peter Gelderloos
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