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January 2021 Volume 45, Issue 1

Labor
The Union Members Who Voted for Trump Have to Be Organized—Not Ignored Mindy Isser
Viewpoint
If We Don’t Break Up Big Tech, We’ll All Be Uber Drivers Soon Moe Tkacik
Feature
The Electoral College Needs to Go. Here’s How States Can Bypass It. In These Times Editors
Dispatch
The MAGA Army Tries to Drag America to Hell Hamilton Nolan
Culture
Public Wailing as Political Dissent Renee Simms
Rural America
From Mad Cow Disease To a Failed Pandemic Response Frank Carber
Investigation
Immigrants Detained by ICE Say They Were Thrown in Solitary for Requesting Covid-19 Tests Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven
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 Feature
The Union Members Who Voted for Trump Have to Be Organized—Not Ignored

Unions should be holding more political discussions with their members—and listening closely to their needs.

Mindy Isser
Feature
Billionaires Want to Be the Gatekeepers of the Solar System

Space is the final (profitable) frontier—and it’s Elon Musk’s for the taking.

Eleanor Penny
Feature
The Electoral College Needs to Go. Here’s How States Can Bypass It.

Hillary Clinton and Al Gore both won the popular vote, but lost the election. It’s time for the people to choose who becomes president.

In These Times Editors
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
LaborDispatch
Here's Why the People Who Pick Our Food Are Going Hungry During Covid
Historic discrimination has left farmworkers with fewer protections than other workers, a practice known as agricultural exceptionalism.
Allison Salerno
Culture
Public Wailing as Political Dissent
Both personal and political, wailing disrupts the social order.
Renee Simms
LaborDispatch
Workers Resist Pandemic-Era Disaster Capitalism in Ecuador
The Ecuador government took advantage of the pandemic to slash workers’ rights.
Kimberley Brown
Viewpoint
For the First Time, the Progressive Caucus Will Have Real Power
New rules will help Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) turn the caucus into a force to be reckoned with.
Joel Bleifuss
Viewpoint
If We Don’t Break Up Big Tech, We’ll All Be Uber Drivers Soon
Big tech is a common enemy for workers and small business owners—but some on the Left just don't see it.
Moe Tkacik
Shemoi Edwards
InvestigationGoodman Institute
Immigrants Detained by ICE Say They Were Thrown in Solitary for Requesting Covid-19 Tests
During an outbreak at Etowah County Detention Center, immigrants say solitary confinement was also used as medical isolation, against ICE guidelines.
Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven
Dispatch
The MAGA Army Tries to Drag America to Hell
Dear Leader Trump's toy soldiers make one last stand on the streets of Washington, DC
Hamilton Nolan

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