December 2017 Volume 41, Issue 12

December 2017

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Viewpoint

Trump Must Go Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Barbara Lee’s War on War Matthew Cunningham-Cook

The Elephants in the Resistance: Don’t Trust the Anti-Trump Republicans Rick Perlstein

100 Years of Colonialism: How Puerto Rico Became Easy Prey for Profiteers Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, In These Times

In 1979, This Economist Predicted Puerto Rico’s Modern-Day Financial Crisis Alex V. Hernandez

Why the Weinstein Story Has Been So Huge Susan J. Douglas

The Left Needs To Confront Its Own Sexual Assault Problem Alex Press

Sexual Violence Is a Workplace Crisis. The Solution Is Organizing. Michelle Chen

Dispatch

Defending the Land, 50 Feet in the Air Jen Deerinwater

Trial by Peace Circle: How a Chicago Community Is Pursuing Jail-Free Justice Sarah Conway

The Pope May Speak About Climate Justice, But in L.A., the Church Leases Land to an Oil Company Charles Davis

The Sunshine State’s Still Berning: Bringing the Political Revolution to Miami Rob Wile

Culture

Lauren Greenfield’s Look at the Children of the New Gilded Age Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up Dayton Martindale

Viewing the USSR Through Red-Tinted Glasses Jane Miller

What a Century-Old Socialist Newspaper Can Teach Us About the Left Sharon Carson

Celebrate the 40th Birthday of the Combahee River Collective Statement In These Times Staff

The Personal Is Not Always Political Leon Fink

Barbara Lee’s War on War

Washington’s voice of conscience since 9/11.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook

The Elephants in the Resistance: Don’t Trust the Anti-Trump Republicans

Sen. Jeff Flake and his ilk aren’t the heroes we’re looking for.

Rick Perlstein

100 Years of Colonialism: How Puerto Rico Became Easy Prey for Profiteers

From U.S. policies to cronyism to vulture finance, the real disaster is human made.

Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, In These Times

In 1979, This Economist Predicted Puerto Rico’s Modern-Day Financial Crisis

The dominoes that led to the collapse were set up decades ago.

Alex V. Hernandez

Why the Weinstein Story Has Been So Huge

Until we confront rape culture as a whole, the #MeToo testimonies will continue.

Susan J. Douglas

The Left Needs To Confront Its Own Sexual Assault Problem

Our movements will never win as long as many of us are unsafe.

Alex Press

Sexual Violence Is a Workplace Crisis. The Solution Is Organizing.

Revolution doesn't sound like a whisper campaign.

Michelle Chen

Defending the Land, 50 Feet in the Air

Meet the tree-sitters fighting the Mariner East 2 Pipeline.

Jen Deerinwater

Lauren Greenfield’s Look at the Children of the New Gilded Age

The creator of The Queen of Versailles on the “hamster wheel of wanting more and more.”

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

Building an Alternative to Capitalism From the Ground Up

A primer on the solidarity economy.

Dayton Martindale

Viewing the USSR Through Red-Tinted Glasses

The writings of Svetlana Alexievich cut through the fog of propaganda surrounding the Soviet Union.

Trial by Peace Circle: How a Chicago Community Is Pursuing Jail-Free Justice

West Side residents are creating alternatives to traditional, punitive courts.

What a Century-Old Socialist Newspaper Can Teach Us About the Left

Inside Appeal to Reason, the paper that inspired In These Times

The Pope May Speak About Climate Justice, But in L.A., the Church Leases Land to an Oil Company

Oil and holy water don’t mix.

Celebrate the 40th Birthday of the Combahee River Collective Statement

Essential books by radical women of color—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Barbara Ransby, Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ida B. Wells and more.

In These Times Staff

The Sunshine State’s Still Berning: Bringing the Political Revolution to Miami

Tomas Kennedy and the rise of South Beach socialism.

The Personal Is Not Always Political

The problem with the media’s individualistic response to collective tragedy.

We can’t have an out-of-control president with a finger on the button.

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