January/February 2026 Volume 50, Issue 01

Dispatch
The Fake Clinics Taking Over Reproductive Healthcare
As abortion clinics disappear nationwide, “crisis pregnancy centers” are transforming reproductive healthcare into a far-right fantasy—quietly collecting hundreds of millions in public funds as Medicaid faces historic cuts.
Sonia Chajet Wides
Culture
Iranian Artists Keep the Spirit of “Woman, Life, Freedom” Alive
Over three years after the suspicious death of Jina Mahsa Amini sparked a nationwide protest movement in Iran, artists continue to fuel creative resistance.
Alessandra Bajec
Viewpoint
A Magazine and Political Movement Intending to Change the World
The words of In These Times founder, James Weinstein, still ring true 50 years later: “No political movement can be healthy unless it has its own press to inform it, educate it and orient it.”
Alex Han
DepartmentsPolitics
I Love You, Madame Librarian
Kurt Vonnegut expresses admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.
In These Times Editors
LaborPalestine
The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza
How one UAW local pulled off a mass strike in solidarity with the Gaza protest encampments, and in opposition to the US-Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.
Sarah Lazare
ViewpointCulture
Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way
Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.
Mariame Kaba
DepartmentsHousing
The Rent Is Too Damn High! Time for a Rent Freeze?
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani campaigned on a rent freeze policy, but what does it actually mean?
J. Patrick Patterson
ViewpointPolitics
Antifa Everywhere
As Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does antifascism mean?
Alberto Toscano
Comics
In 2026, Kristi Noem Will Eat a Dog on Live Television
New comics with predictions for the new year and the introduction of MurderKorp, a startup "connecting customers with ordinary people willing to murder someone for them."
Emily Flake, Jen Sorensen, Rob Rogers and Kendra Wells

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