September 2017 Volume 41, Issue 09
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September 2017
Viewpoint
We’ll Beat the Fascists With Ideas, Not Fists
Nathan Robinson
Don’t Give Fascism an Inch
Natasha Lennard
Why I Helped Shut the “Alt-Right” Down
Mukund Rathi
Feature
4 Radical Books to Read on the Beach This Labor Day
In These Times Staff
The Climate Movement’s New Battle Cry
Bill McKibben
A New Deal for Wall Street
Rebecca Burns
Dispatch
Campouts, Not Shootouts: Chicago Youth Take Back Their Streets
Carlos Ballesteros
Culture
Native Art Beyond “Ponies in a Sunset”
Micco Caporale
Democratic Socialism in 5 Minutes or Less
Dayton Martindale
Judginess Built the Middle Class
Margaret Garb
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Dispatch
Linda Sarsour: “I Want American Muslims To Be Unapologetic About Who We Are”
The Women's March organizer on growing Islamophobia and the state of the resistance
Kamil Ahsan
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Culture
Native Art Beyond “Ponies in a Sunset”
An interview with artist Luzene Hill.
Micco Caporale
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Culture
Democratic Socialism in 5 Minutes or Less
From Rosa Luxemburg to Bernie Sanders, a beginner’s guide.
Dayton Martindale
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Viewpoint
We’ll Beat the Fascists With Ideas, Not Fists
As bad as the far Right is, shutting them down is poor strategy.
Nathan Robinson
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Viewpoint
Don’t Give Fascism an Inch
To defeat white supremacy, we must confront it directly.
Natasha Lennard
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Viewpoint
Why I Helped Shut the “Alt-Right” Down
While different situations call for different tactics, sometimes the only option is denying a platform.
Mukund Rathi
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Dispatch
Campouts, Not Shootouts: Chicago Youth Take Back Their Streets
We talked to the teenagers occupying Chicago street corners.
Carlos Ballesteros
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Culture
Sword-and-Sorcery Into Plowshares: Game of Thrones’ Anti-War Message
The hit HBO drama makes a carefully constructed argument for the futility of war.
Sean T. Collins
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Culture
Judginess Built the Middle Class
A new book explores the 19th-century origins of middle-class respectability—and the misfits kept out of the club.
Margaret Garb
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Culture
Heart of Whiteness: The Stories Western Philanthropists Tell Themselves
Why do Western efforts to help the environment and Africa so often fail?
Laura Orlando
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Introducing the New In These Times
A new magazine for new times.
Joel Bleifuss
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Dispatch
The Link Between Trump’s Attacks on Immigrants and Deaths in the Desert
Trump's policies reduce people first to “illegals,” then to deportation statistics, and, finally, to a scattering of bones in an arroyo.
John Washington
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Dispatch
Disabled and Disobedient: How ADAPT Activists Blocked the GOP Healthcare Bill
This wasn't their first day at the rodeo.
s.e. smith