November 2015 Volume 39, Issue 11

November 2015

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Viewpoint

A Chemical-Industrial Complex Joel Bleifuss

Black Lives Matter Activists Declare Solidarity with Palestine Salim Muwakkil

Feature

Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman

At Colleges, Running Backs Get All the Greenbacks, While Academic Students Fight Over Crumbs Gilbert M. Gaul

Margaret Atwood on Climate Change, Her New Book and Why Socialists Are Better with Budgets Jessica Stites

Slavoj Zizek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism Slavoj Žižek

Dispatch

A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations Simon Davis-Cohen

These Activists Are Trying To Solve the Housing Crisis—By Suing the Suburbs s.e. smith

Culture

The Most Disappointing Thing About Submission Isn’t Islamophobia, But Its Tedious Sexism Chris Lehmann

The Neverending Presidency: An Unfettered Look at How Democracy Lost to Mugabe Michael Atkinson

When the Bank Robs You David Dayen

Jeremy Corbyn Is Already Pushing the Labour Party to Fight Inequality and Injustice Jane Miller

Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market

A 6-month investigation finds that the revolving door between government and the chemical industry has led the EPA to rely on easily manipulated research. The result? Toxic substances remain in everyday products.

Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman

At Colleges, Running Backs Get All the Greenbacks, While Academic Students Fight Over Crumbs

College football has become a bloated, multi-million dollar business, subverting the original mission of universities—education.

Gilbert M. Gaul

Margaret Atwood on Climate Change, Her New Book and Why Socialists Are Better with Budgets

We asked the speculative fiction writer about this month's Canadian elections and (relatedly?) whether humanity is doomed.

Jessica Stites

Slavoj Zizek: We Can’t Address the EU Refugee Crisis Without Confronting Global Capitalism

The refugees won't all make it to Norway. Nor does the Norway they seek exist.

Slavoj Žižek

A Chemical-Industrial Complex

Why do many hazardous chemicals go unregulated in the United States? An In These Times investigation reveals the answer.

A Bill of Rights That Puts Workers Above Corporations

It's up to the voters of Spokane, Washington.

Simon Davis-Cohen

These Activists Are Trying To Solve the Housing Crisis—By Suing the Suburbs

Bay Area activists take a suburb to court, saying it refused to allow high-density housing

The Most Disappointing Thing About Submission Isn’t Islamophobia, But Its Tedious Sexism

Any nuanced discussion about the intersection of cultures in Michel Houellebecq's new book is buried under its tiresome narration

The image is split diagonally. In the top triangle of the image, a Black man holds a smoking gas canister. In the bottom triangle of the image, a Palestinian man is in a throwing stance, surrounded by smoke.

Black Lives Matter Activists Declare Solidarity with Palestine

The statement revives the internationalism of the '60s and '70s, when black activists saw themselves as part of a global fight against Western colonialism

The Neverending Presidency: An Unfettered Look at How Democracy Lost to Mugabe

Camilla Nielsson’s new documentary, Democrats, is a study in how a dictatorship can weather a 'democratic transition'

Michael Atkinson

When the Bank Robs You

Mehrsa Baradaran's How the Other Half Banks tells the history of banks robbing from the poor and giving to the rich--and explains how we can stop it.

Jeremy Corbyn Is Already Pushing the Labour Party to Fight Inequality and Injustice

Despite a seemingly endless torrent of attacks and gossip, Corbyn is building a real alternative to politics as usual in the UK.

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