December 2020 Volume 44, Issue 12

December 2020

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Labor

With Gigs Canceled and No Relief, Musicians Form a Nationwide Union Liz Pelly

Healthcare Workers Are Organizing Like Their Lives Depend On It Alice Herman

Viewpoint

The Message from this Election? Bring the “Ruckus on the Democratic Party.” Joel Bleifuss

Power Comes From Class War, Not Biden Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The Numbers Show Covid Is a Mental Health Crisis Hannah Faris

Dean Spade on How Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive Disaster Clara Liang

What You Need to Know About BDS In These Times Editors

Biden Must End the War He Helped Start Shireen Al-Adeimi

Biden’s First Priority: Undo the Damage Done by Trump Rick Perlstein

With Biden in Power, Beware the Neoliberal Backlash Barbara Ransby

Dispatch

From Student Debtor to Soldier Anna Attie

Why the South Is Organizing Its Own Green New Deal Casey Williams

Culture

The Violent Story of American Whiteness Kim Kelly

Republicans Never Wanted a Fair Fight In These Times Editors

The Numbers Show Covid Is a Mental Health Crisis

The U.S. mental health system was already in tatters. Then came the pandemic.

Hannah Faris

Dean Spade on How Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive Disaster

We have to fundamentally reimagine community if we want to avoid “intensive, uneven suffering followed by species extinction.”

Clara Liang

What You Need to Know About BDS

The global, nonviolent movement for Palestinian freedom.

In These Times Editors

Biden Must End the War He Helped Start

Yemenis call on the president-elect to stop the onslaught.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Biden’s First Priority: Undo the Damage Done by Trump

President Biden can make progressive appointments and executive actions—no matter who controls the Senate.

Rick Perlstein

With Biden in Power, Beware the Neoliberal Backlash

Grassroots organizers and Black voters led Biden to victory. Our concerns and demands must be taken seriously.

Barbara Ransby

From Student Debtor to Soldier

How the student loan debt crisis forces low-income students of color into the military.

With Gigs Canceled and No Relief, Musicians Form a Nationwide Union

This is what solidarity sounds like.

The Violent Story of American Whiteness

Three writers dive into the depths of white supremacy in America, from alt-right dating sites to the neo-Nazi movement to protect Confederate monuments.

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Healthcare Workers Are Organizing Like Their Lives Depend On It

Faced with ongoing PPE shortages and employer obfuscation about deadly outbreaks, more hospital staff are seeing on-the-job solidarity as essential work.

Why the South Is Organizing Its Own Green New Deal

Amid devastating hurricanes, oil spills and refinery fires, the Gulf South pushes for a Green New Deal that will meet its needs.

Republicans Never Wanted a Fair Fight

Lessons from the tumultuous election in 2000 are still relevant 20 years later.

In These Times Editors

The Message from this Election? Bring the “Ruckus on the Democratic Party.”

Don't believe the establishment: The 2020 election results are a vindication of the Left’s inside-outside strategy.

Power Comes From Class War, Not Biden

The Left needs workers more than it needs the Democratic Party.

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