January 2017 Volume 41, Issue 01

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Viewpoint

To Protect Abortion Rights, Progressives Need to Think Big Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Why We Need a New Left Internationalism Leon Fink

“Identity Politics” Takes a Hit Salim Muwakkil

A Deal with the Orange Devil? Progressives Debate Whether to Seek Common Ground With Trump John Feffer and Max Sawicky

Donald Trump’s Plans Are Incredibly Unpopular Susan J. Douglas

Democratic Elites Are Uneasy With Keith Ellison. That Is Exactly Why He Should Be Head of the DNC. Joel Bleifuss

Feature

“There’s Not Very Much Time”: Robert Reich’s Plan to Fix the Democratic Party Joel Bleifuss

The Only Way to Defeat Trump Is to Understand That Race and Class Are Inseparable Saqib Bhatti

Under Trump, Racial Justice Activists Must Seek Solutions Outside the State Asha Ransby-Sporn

Resisting Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda In the Streets and In the Courts Sameera Hafiz

How Muslim Activists Are Organizing Against Islamophobia in the Face of President Trump Kalia Abiade

How To Fight Hate Crimes and White Nationalism in Trump’s America Bill Berkowitz

Handbook for the Resistance: A User’s Guide to Taking On the Trump Agenda In These Times Editors

On Inauguration Day, Don’t Go to Work. Don’t Buy Anything. We Need A National Strike to Stop Trump. Marianne Hastings

Dispatch

How Colleges and Universities Are Defying Trump Kate Aronoff

Culture

The High Priest of the Church of Trump Theo Anderson

The First Hippies Jane Miller

CNN’s New Book Is a Master Class in How Not to Cover an Election Chris Lehmann

The Android Manifesto: Finding Marx in Westworld Eileen Jones

Dissident-Poet on the Lam: A New Film Captures Pablo Neruda’s Year as a Fugitive Michael Atkinson

“There’s Not Very Much Time”: Robert Reich’s Plan to Fix the Democratic Party

The progressive economist outlines his vision for reviving the economy, reinventing the party and resisting Donald Trump.

Joel Bleifuss

The Only Way to Defeat Trump Is to Understand That Race and Class Are Inseparable

Solidarity is key to building a multiracial working-class movement.

Saqib Bhatti

Under Trump, Racial Justice Activists Must Seek Solutions Outside the State

Trump has promised to crack down on dissent, but the Movement for Black Lives must still grow stronger.

Asha Ransby-Sporn

Resisting Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda In the Streets and In the Courts

We will need a robust legal strategy and highly organized communities to stop the coming deportation regime.

Sameera Hafiz

How Muslim Activists Are Organizing Against Islamophobia in the Face of President Trump

Communities brace for more aggressive policies, and prepare to fight back.

Kalia Abiade

How To Fight Hate Crimes and White Nationalism in Trump’s America

Standing against the far Right's vision means we can't stay silent.

Bill Berkowitz

Handbook for the Resistance: A User’s Guide to Taking On the Trump Agenda

Writers and organizers offer a handbook for fighting back.

In These Times Editors

On Inauguration Day, Don’t Go to Work. Don’t Buy Anything. We Need A National Strike to Stop Trump.

A call for a national "Sick Out" on Jan. 20, 2017.

Marianne Hastings

To Protect Abortion Rights, Progressives Need to Think Big

The fight for reproductive justice is about to get harder, and now is no time for complacency.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Why We Need a New Left Internationalism

Neither neoliberal globalization nor populist isolationism offers a workable path forward.

“Identity Politics” Takes a Hit

After the election, many on the Black Left are once again grappling with the "race vs. class" debate.

A Deal with the Orange Devil? Progressives Debate Whether to Seek Common Ground With Trump

The president-elect says he wants a jobs-creating infrastructure bill—should Democrats help make it happen?

John Feffer and Max Sawicky

Donald Trump’s Plans Are Incredibly Unpopular

The president-elect is missing a mandate in more ways than one.

Susan J. Douglas

How Colleges and Universities Are Defying Trump

The student campaign to make schools into sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants.

Democratic Elites Are Uneasy With Keith Ellison. That Is Exactly Why He Should Be Head of the DNC.

The Democratic Party must be rebuilt—from the bottom up.

The High Priest of the Church of Trump

How Stephen Bannon is using evangelical narratives to spread the gospel of Trumpism.

The First Hippies

The new book Rebel Crossings showcases a small band of feminist utopians who came to America to try something new.

CNN’s New Book Is a Master Class in How Not to Cover an Election

The news network's instant retrospective on the Trump-Clinton race is as vacuous as their initial coverage was.

The Android Manifesto: Finding Marx in Westworld

The HBO drama is a surprisingly astute tale of alienated labor and false consciousness.

Dissident-Poet on the Lam: A New Film Captures Pablo Neruda’s Year as a Fugitive

Pablo Larrain's Neruda follows the love-poet-cum-Communist-dissident in a cat-and-mouse chase with the Chilean government.

Michael Atkinson

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