September 2021 Volume 45, Issue 9

September 2021

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Labor

In the Coal Mines, Workers Are Dying to Make a Living Kari Lydersen

Viewpoint

The Political Magic of the Democrats’ Infrastructure Plan Rick Perlstein

Landlords Are Going to Take Away All Your Wage Gains Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Pedagogy of the Apocalypse Tatiana McInnis

The Movement to De-Cop the Campus Emily Rich

School's Open. But What About the Year That I, And Other Disabled Students, Lost? Freyja Christian and Aimee Christian

Education Shouldn't Be A Debt Sentence Nick Marcil

I Deserve Meaningful Action From My University to Address Anti-Asian Hate Allison Arguezo

Dispatch

Black Teachers Defend Their Curriculum From Attacks on Critical Race Theory Alice Herman

Abolitionist Library Workers Want Library Access for All. That Begins with Getting Cops Out. Jason Christian

Under Biden, Migrants Continue Fighting for the Right to Return to the U.S. Paco Alvarez

Departments

9/11 and the Illusion of War Without Casualties In These Times Editors

Debt Is Usually Treated As A Personal Failure. Debtors' Unions Are Changing That. In These Times Editors

Pedagogy of the Apocalypse

In a year filled with trauma, a university professor learns how to support her students.

Tatiana McInnis

The Movement to De-Cop the Campus

Students, educators and staff across the University of California system are organizing to abolish campus police.

Emily Rich

Child in wheelchair

School's Open. But What About the Year That I, And Other Disabled Students, Lost?

A 10-year-old reflects on remote learning challenges as we head into a new academic year.

Freyja Christian

Aimee Christian

Education Shouldn't Be A Debt Sentence

My debt is symptomatic of capitalism. It should be canceled.

Nick Marcil

I Deserve Meaningful Action From My University to Address Anti-Asian Hate

Northwestern students need more than empty statements. It's time for institutional solutions.

Allison Arguezo

In the Coal Mines, Workers Are Dying to Make a Living

Mining companies increasingly rely on cheaper contractors who face longer hours and higher risk of accidents.

Kari Lydersen

9/11 and the Illusion of War Without Casualties

Twenty years ago, Naomi Klein wrote that 9/11 shattered Americans' "illusion of war without casualties." Now, after combat troops have been pulled out of Afghanistan, is it really "game over"?

In These Times Editors

Black Teachers Defend Their Curriculum From Attacks on Critical Race Theory

With school boards becoming a battleground in the right-wing war on critical race theory, Milwaukee educators are standing up against racist censorship of American history.

Abolitionist Library Workers Want Library Access for All. That Begins with Getting Cops Out.

Library staff work to remove the need for police officers within libraries and focus on de-escalating training.

Jason Christian

Debt Is Usually Treated As A Personal Failure. Debtors' Unions Are Changing That.

With nearly three out of four households carrying some kind of debt, debtors' unions are reframing indebtedness as a shared problem and a source of collective power.

In These Times Editors

Under Biden, Migrants Continue Fighting for the Right to Return to the U.S.

As family separations continue under the Biden administration, unjustly deported migrants are fighting to be reunited with their families.

The Political Magic of the Democrats’ Infrastructure Plan

Biden and the Democrats have put forward proposals that would finally invest in public services that help humans flourish.

Landlords Are Going to Take Away All Your Wage Gains

This is what happens when you treat housing as just another market.

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