December 2025 Volume 49, Issue 10

Culture
Fighting Anti-Queer Backlash with Citizen Archivists
Queer archivist groups like Invisible Histories and the Queer Zine Archive Project are preserving queer history and making it accessible in the face of the federal government's erasure. You can do the same.
Lindsay Eanet
Departments
The Big Idea: Municipal-Owned Grocery Stores
With rising grocery prices and increasingly sparse options, more places are considering municipal-owned grocery stores to create equitable access to food.
J. Patrick Patterson
ViewpointDepartments
For the First Time in the Trump Era, a Key Opportunity Is Here
This month voters repudiated MAGA in elections large and small across the country. Those of us on the left need a clear-eyed assessment of the political terrain and a vision that can look beyond the current fight.
Alex Han
Culture
Queen Mother: A Chief of Her People
Uncovering the life of a Civil Rights icon, Pan-Africanist and reparations pioneer.
Eleanor J. Bader
Comics
NYC Under IKEA Law, Lead-Chugging Gladiators and Other Comics
December comics from Kirk Anderson, Tom Tomorrow, and Jen Sorensen.
Kirk Anderson, Tom Tomorrow and Jen Sorensen
LaborDepartments
Labor Solidarity Defends Against Deportations
In 1978, immigrants won a long fight with U.S. Border Patrol after a raid meant to union-bust.
In These Times Editors
ViewpointPalestine
Mamdani Won. Now What?
After two years of a genocide committed by the Israeli government in Gaza, Israel’s grip on the political narrative is slipping.
Nashwa Bawab
ViewpointPolitics
Brad Lander on Mamdani's Win: "It’s not only on Zohran. It’s on all of us."
In an op-ed for In These Times, Lander writes that in response to looming threats from Donald Trump, "We’ve got to rise to the challenge together—as New Yorkers."
Brad Lander
Viewpoint
A New Kind of Party
The Democrats’ centrist wing suffered its latest humiliation with Andrew Cuomo’s defeat in New York City. It’s time for something new—and the victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani points the way.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
ViewpointPolitics
Zohran Mamdani Wins and It Is a Celebration of My New York
Mamdani will be New York City's first Muslim, socialist mayor. But his victory does—and should—mean much more.
Eman Abdelhadi

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