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As President, Jimmy Carter Was Not a “Peacemaker”
The late Carter’s foreign policy record as president was mixed at best.
Stephen Zunes

LaborViewpoint
“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor
“Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”
Sarah Jaffe

Labor
Julie Su Is Still Optimistic About the Future of Labor
A discussion between Kim Kelly and Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su about the accomplishments of her tenure, anti-worker threats on the horizon, and keeping faith in challenging times.
Kim Kelly

Viewpoint
Progressives Should Reject the DOGE Scam
There’s nothing to gain from indulging the premise that Musk and Trump care about “government waste”—it’s a ploy to gut the entire liberal state.
Adam Johnson

Labor
SEIU Joins AFL-CIO to 'Unleash a New Era of Worker Power' as Trump 2.0 Looms
"CEOs and billionaires want nothing more than to see workers divided, but we're standing here today with greater solidarity than ever," said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler.
Jake Johnson

Viewpoint
Trump and RFK Jr.’s Policies Will Make America Sick
The next Trump administration is set to defund healthcare through a pro-corporate agenda. The answer is a universal, single-payer system.
Adam Gaffney

Viewpoint
The Allegory of Would-Be Federal Judge Adeel Mangi
Mangi would have been the nation's first Muslim American federal appeals judge. But thanks to racist Republican attacks and Democratic spinelessness, he lost his appointment.
Jay Willis

Culture
Voices On the Wall
Street art in Bangladesh prevails after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government.
Piyas Biswas

Rural America
Meatpacking Plants Disproportionately Pollute Poor, Non-White Communities
Postville, Iowa has long dealt with the fallout from Agri Star Meat and Poultry, the town’s largest employer—and the same is true in many towns near meatpacking plants.
John McCracken and Mónica Cordero

Rural America
Despite Support for Trump, Rural Voters Split with Republican Party on School Vouchers and Abortion
2024 vote tallies show rural areas are more politically complex than popular party and media narratives would have us believe.
Lane Wendell Fischer

LaborViewpoint
Hospitals Are Desperately Understaffed. Could Co-ops Be an Answer?
Unionized staffing cooperatives like AlliedUP can offer workers not only better pay and benefits, but critical support and a measure ownership over their professional futures.
Osita Nwanevu

ViewpointRural America
The "Yellowstone" TV Show Is Over, but Not the Damage It’s Done to the West
The caricatured version of Montana sold by the show is helping ruin a place its creators never truly understood.
Johnathan Hettinger

Amazon Strike Takeaways: Walk-Outs Slowed Packages, Boosted Union Power
Workers describe tens of thousands of packages delayed—and a strong sense of empowerment within warehouses—after Amazon workers with the Teamsters launched the largest strike to date against one of the world's most powerful companies.
Luis Feliz Leon

Labor
Amazon Unleashed Flood of Water on Striking Workers, Say Teamsters
Teamsters requested an investigation of the flood from Amazon's warehouse that swamped a picket line in Queens; they also filed for a restraining order against the NYPD.
Luis Feliz Leon

Feature
How the LA Tenants Union Fights Displacement with Community
Lessons from a decade of building tenant power
Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis

Labor
NYPD Arrests Workers During Historic Amazon Strike
Police cracked down on striking drivers in Queens who blocked deliveries.
Luis Feliz Leon

ViewpointElection 2024
The Billionaires’ Election
The disastrous 2024 outcome shows the ever-growing role of money in American politics.
Rob Larson

Viewpoint
Socialists in Office Are Building Power on the Local Level
At a recent gathering in Philadelphia, elected officials endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America shared strategies for advancing left-wing policy at all levels of government.
David Duhalde
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.