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Rural America

An Open Letter to Biden from Indigenous Peoples

Trump wrecked the relationship between the U.S. government and Native nations. Here's how the Biden Administration can repair this damage.

Rural America In These Times

Labor

After Threatening Strike, Chicago Teachers Set “New Standard” With Safer School Reopening Plan

Hard-fought negotiations and a strike threat led to Chicago teachers reaching the “most comprehensive agreement for reopening schools” in the country, potentially setting a model for other districts nationwide.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

Undocumented in the Sex Industry

Maya Morena, a sex worker, activist, and DACA recipient from Honduras, examines the phenomenon of "whoreophobia," the history of vice and more.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Massive Inequality Is a Feature of Capitalism, Not a Bug

The Biden administration may usher in a new period of reform, but history shows that it's unlikely to last if our economic system remains intact.

Richard D. Wolff

Departments

Devastation and Uprising: 2020 in 10 Numbers

The pandemic has disproportionately impacted communities of color and amplified wealth inequality. But Americans have also demonstrated their incredible resilience.

In These Times Editors

Labor

This Week in Working: VA Workers and Teachers Unions

The Working In These Times newsletter for the week of February 5

Hamilton Nolan

Rural America

From Mad Cow Disease To a Failed Pandemic Response

Health officials did too little, too late to control an outbreak of mad cow disease in the 80s. Sound familiar?

Frank Carber

Labor

Enormous VA Union Contract Moves Towards Uncertain Conclusion Under New Biden Administration

The fate of more than a quarter million federal workers is still up in the air.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

Biden Says He’s Ending the Yemen War—But It's Too Soon to Celebrate

The details of Biden’s Yemen war announcement are what matter. Those are still not clear.

Shireen Al-Adeimi and Sarah Lazare

Feature

The Urgent Need for SCOTUS Reform, By The Numbers

The highest court in the land does not represent the interests of the American people. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Clara Liang

Labor

In the Shadow of Covid, ACLU Joins Non-Profit Unionization Surge

A conversation with representatives of ACLU Staff United about their unionization effort and the growing nonprofit labor movement.

Maximillian Alvarez

Viewpoint

Democrats Need to Radically Expand American Democracy—And Fast

If Democrats want to enact their agenda and retain power, they should move quickly to bolster voting rights and reform undemocratic structures in the U.S. political system.

Scott Remer

Dispatch

Going Hungry in the Most Magical Place on Earth

Disney World's union workers, running out of federal aid, are banding together to keep each other afloat.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

You Can't Hurt Hedge Funds By Acting Exactly Like Them

Pumping up GameStop will do nothing to change what people hate about Wall Street. There's a better way.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

The Trump Administration's Cruelty Haunts Our Virtual Immigration Courts

How “judicial black sites” have come to shape our immigration system.

Arvind Dilawar

Rural America

Here’s How Biden Could Help Fix the Rural Healthcare Crisis

Since long before Covid, rural health has suffered from federal misunderstanding and neglect.

Lauren Hughes and Sameer Vohra

Labor

Toiling in the Marijuana Fields

A conversation with an organic weed grower in Alaska.

Maximillian Alvarez

What the GameStop Bubble Reveals About Our Monstrous Financial System

The online pranksters behind the great GameStop bubble of 2021 are probably going to lose a lot of money. But they’ve done the world a service by reminding us of the absurdity of the stock market.

Doug Henwood