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Climate

CO2 Now at Levels Unseen in 3.6 Million Years

Despite pandemic shutdowns, the NOAA warns that carbon dioxide and methane "continued their unrelenting rise in 2020."

Jessica Corbett

Viewpoint

Is the Biden Administration Quietly Pursuing an Imperialist Foreign Policy?

Pulitzer-winning author Greg Grandin explores how the State Department has adopted a "sleeper Monroe Doctrine" in Latin America.

María Esperanza Casullo

Labor

The Movement to End At-Will Employment Is Getting Serious

Unlike much of the world, the U.S. doesn’t ensure “just cause” employment. This coalition in Illinois hopes to change that.

Jeff Schuhrke

Viewpoint

Politics Are Momentarily Weird Enough to Take On Global Capitalism

A global minimum corporate tax could have some crossover appeal.

Hamilton Nolan

Departments

Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory?

Right-wing censorship efforts are reaching new heights with the push to erase any talk of racism from American classrooms.

In These Times Editors

Inside the Covid-Induced Collapse of American Higher Education

SUNY Albany associate professor Aaron Major takes stock of the academic labor movement and its post-pandemic future.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

McGraw Hill Rejects Calls to Stop Charging Its Freelancers a Fee in Order to Get Paid

Labor advocates say the practice is an "outrage," and fear that it will spread.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

What's Really Behind the Opposition to a $15 Minimum Wage

Fifty-seven senators from both parties are determined to preserve an economic system that rewards the rich and punishes the poor.

Joel Bleifuss

Departments

Will Biden Make Good on Obama's Promise to Close Guantánamo?

Twelve years ago, one of our writers outlined what needs to happen to finally shut down Gitmo.

In These Times Editors

Rural America

How a Rural Colorado Community Self-Organized a Successful Vaccination Effort

Immigrant community groups, forced to organize by the constant threat of ICE, have played a central role as vaccine information networks.

Dave Marston

Labor

Citing Unfair Labor Practices, 1,300 Steelworkers Strike in Five States

United Steelworkers members claim Allegheny Technologies Incorporated is refusing to provide essential bargaining information.

C.M. Lewis

FeatureInvestigation

Biden's Treatment of Asylum-Seekers Looks a Lot Like Trump's

Migrants are being whisked away in the night, without a hearing, on “public health” grounds.

Tina Vásquez

Dispatch

Nina Turner Hopes to Move Ohio Left

The "daughter of Cleveland" and former Bernie Sanders surrogate is running for Congress on a platform that includes a $15 minimum wage, recurring stimulus checks and free public college.

Nuala Bishari

Viewpoint

The Dangers of Factionalism in DSA

If the Left is to succeed where past generations have failed, it can’t allow sectarian organizations to operate as "parties within a party."

Bill Barclay, Leo Casey, Jack Clark, Richard Healey, Deborah Meier, Maxine Phillips, Chris Riddiough and Joseph M. Schwartz

Feature

One-Click Shopping Has Brought American Workers to the Brink

In his new book “Fulfillment,” reporter Alec MacGillis chronicles how Amazon came to exemplify American inequality.

Andru Okun

Violence Against Asian Women Workers Is All-American

Two weeks after the March 16th attacks, we must continue the work to dismantle centuries-long, harmful narratives about Asian women.

Clara Liang

Labor

Get the Federal Government to Fund Union Organizing. Now.

The most obvious and brilliant idea to revive organized labor, fast.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

The UK's Vaccine Rollout Is the Latest Reminder We Need Universal Healthcare

Britain's vaccination rate has far outpaced the rest of the West. The triumph belongs to its National Health Service.

Natasha Hakimi Zapata