January 2018 Volume 42, Issue 01

January 2018

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Viewpoint

Establishment Democrats Lack the Will to Fight the GOP Tax Plan. It’s Time for an Alternative. Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Move Over, Corporate Democrats. A New Wave of Left Populists Is on the Rise. Theo Anderson

Should Progressives Support Soda Taxes? In These Times Writers

In Defense of Wildfire Joseph Bullington

What We Got Wrong When Covering the Bill Clinton Sexual Abuse Allegations Jessica Stites

Dispatch

Meet the Chicagoans Who Are Opening Their Homes to Abortion-Seekers Veronica Arreola

How To Catch a Wage Thief Gigi Sukin

You’re a Sad Man, Jerry Brown Kate Aronoff

Alaska Grassroots Alliance Aim To Melt GOP’s Cold Cold Heart Yereth Rosen

Culture

A Brief Case for Prison Abolition Dayton Martindale

The Uncolonized Mind: An Iraqi-American Artist Explores Memory, Star Wars and Bad Translations Tamara Nassar

Beyond Vibrator Feminism Jessa Crispin

The Self-Help Guru Who Shaped Trump’s Worldview Chris Lehmann

Emmett Till’s Cousin on Why Mississippi’s Flag Is Still Racist Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

The Specter Haunting Infowars Michael Atkinson

Move Over, Corporate Democrats. A New Wave of Left Populists Is on the Rise.

It's 2018. Candidates don't need the establishment anymore.

Theo Anderson

Should Progressives Support Soda Taxes?

Cities from Chicago to Philadelphia have experimented with a tax on sweetened beverages. Tom Philpott, Max B. Sawicky and Melina Packer debate the merits.

In These Times Writers

In Defense of Wildfire

What climate activists, right-wing loggers and Smokey Bear get wrong

Joseph Bullington

What We Got Wrong When Covering the Bill Clinton Sexual Abuse Allegations

In this #MeToo moment, looking back at our coverage.

Jessica Stites

Meet the Chicagoans Who Are Opening Their Homes to Abortion-Seekers

Right-wing lawmakers are restricting abortion access. These volunteers are expanding it.

Veronica Arreola

A Brief Case for Prison Abolition

We know prisons are racist, classist and abusive. Are they also obsolete?

Dayton Martindale

The Uncolonized Mind: An Iraqi-American Artist Explores Memory, Star Wars and Bad Translations

Michael Rakowitz on his latest exhibition.

Beyond Vibrator Feminism

Orgasms will not set us free.

How To Catch a Wage Thief

Day laborers in Denver are tracking down runaway employers.

The Self-Help Guru Who Shaped Trump’s Worldview

How the commander-in-chief succumbs to the perils of positive thinking.

Emmett Till’s Cousin on Why Mississippi’s Flag Is Still Racist

Edelia “Dr. Jay” Carthan is at the forefront of a movement to remove the Confederate “stars and bars.”

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank

The Specter Haunting Infowars

The new documentary A Gray State, executive produced by Werner Herzog, explores a murder-suicide that has become a far-right obsession.

Michael Atkinson

You’re a Sad Man, Jerry Brown

At the U.N. climate change Conference in Bonn, Jerry Brown couldn’t shake his hecklers.

Establishment Democrats Lack the Will to Fight the GOP Tax Plan. It’s Time for an Alternative.

To fend off the Republicans' one-sided class war, we must break the corporate hold on the Democratic Party.

Alaska Grassroots Alliance Aim To Melt GOP’s Cold Cold Heart

Armed with hot cocoa and a smile, these progressives have spent all year protesting Trump-era policies.

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