August 2017 Volume 41, Issue 08

August 2017

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Viewpoint

Why Toxic Masculinity Hurts Men as Well as Women Susan J. Douglas

We Are In the Midst of a Black Power Renaissance Salim Muwakkil

We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels Joel Bleifuss

Feature

The Great Midwestern Divide: Why Minnesota and Wisconsin’s Political Schism Matters Theo Anderson

Language of the Unheard: 50 Years On, the Flames of the Detroit Uprising Still Burn In These Times Staff

A New Deal for Wall Street: Trump’s Plans for Mass Privatization Are a Colossal Giveaway to the 1% Rebecca Burns

Naomi Klein: We Need A Plan, Not A Brand Kate Aronoff

Dispatch

How a Maryland Town Is Turning Its New Deal Past Into a New Economy Present Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Culture

At the Bullfrog, Those Left Behind by the Global Economy Find Relief—and a Place to Talk Trump Kari Lydersen

The White-Supremacist Roots of America’s Libertarian Right Chris Lehmann

The Abolitionist of Walden Pond Dayton Martindale

Sorry, Tories: Jeremy Corbyn’s Success Is a Win for the Anti-Austerity Movement Jane Miller

Beta Testing Fascism: How Online Culture Wars Created the Alt-Right John Michael Colón

Okja: The Veggie-Prop Children’s Film You Really Need to See Michael Atkinson

The Great Midwestern Divide: Why Minnesota and Wisconsin’s Political Schism Matters

The governorships of conservative Scott Walker (R-Wis.) and progressive Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) have yielded dramatically different results.

Theo Anderson

Language of the Unheard: 50 Years On, the Flames of the Detroit Uprising Still Burn

The structural injustices that laid the groundwork for Detroit’s uprising still exist.

In These Times Staff

A New Deal for Wall Street: Trump’s Plans for Mass Privatization Are a Colossal Giveaway to the 1%

Trump wants to sell off our infrastructure—and Democrats helped pave the way.

Rebecca Burns

Naomi Klein: We Need A Plan, Not A Brand

The author speaks on Corbyn, Trump, climate change, and the “hollow branding” that got us here.

Kate Aronoff

At the Bullfrog, Those Left Behind by the Global Economy Find Relief—and a Place to Talk Trump

In a Jamestown, N.Y., hotel and bar, down-and-out former factory workers seek solidarity and camaraderie—often expressed in shared rants about immigrants or liberals.

The White-Supremacist Roots of America’s Libertarian Right

The history of Koch-style libertarian economics is steeped in racism.

How a Maryland Town Is Turning Its New Deal Past Into a New Economy Present

Greenbelt residents are organizing cooperatives and other community initiatives aimed at building a better world.

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Why Toxic Masculinity Hurts Men as Well as Women

Feminists and progressives need to highlight toxic masculinity's poisonous effects on not just the marginalized, but men as well.

Susan J. Douglas

We Are In the Midst of a Black Power Renaissance

Under Trump, we are seeing a return to collective Black consciousness.

The Abolitionist of Walden Pond

Two hundred years after his birth, Henry David Thoreau is as relevant as ever.

Dayton Martindale

We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels

The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration.

Sorry, Tories: Jeremy Corbyn’s Success Is a Win for the Anti-Austerity Movement

British progressives have a long fight ahead. But for now, we're breathing a collective sigh of relief.

Beta Testing Fascism: How Online Culture Wars Created the Alt-Right

Angela Nagle's "Kill All Normies" charts the ideology's emergence from the internet's darkest corners.

John Michael Colón

Okja: The Veggie-Prop Children’s Film You Really Need to See

The director of Snowpiercer is back with a kiddie film that meets vegetarian propaganda, with surprising success.

Michael Atkinson

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