February 2018 Volume 42, Issue 02

February 2018

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Viewpoint

Your Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter (Unless You’re Michael Bloomberg) Kate Aronoff

A Socialist Case for Curbing Consumption To Stop Climate Change Dayton Martindale

Democrats Can’t Win By Courting Conservative White Voters James Thindwa

Feature

When They Call You a Terrorist Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha bandele

Wall Street Isn’t the Answer to the Pension Crisis. Expanding Social Security Is. Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone

Houston Is Being Rebuilt on a Foundation of Wage Theft Bryce Covert

The Specter of Reagan Haunts the GOP’s New Tax Plan Joel Bleifuss

Dispatch

The Right To Mother and Do Sex Work Carrie Weisman

From Sewer Socialism to Server Socialism: Appalachia’s Internet Revolution Chris Brooks

The Caribou in the Copper Mine Yereth Rosen

The 38 Dakota Warriors Lincoln Hanged Justin Perkins

Culture

The Abyss of Motherhood Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

Kara Walker and the Missing Pages of the History Books Micco Caporale

Does the Natural World Needs Its Own Bill of Rights? Dayton Martindale

A Year On, Trump Admin Refuses to Drop Charges Against 59 Arrested at Inauguration Protest Patrick Corley

Best Books of 2017: In These Times Staff and Reader Picks In These Times Staff

Centrist Think Tanks Won’t Save Our Cities Gar Alperovitz

When They Call You a Terrorist

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors on her path to activism and being criminalized at age 12.

Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha bandele

Wall Street Isn’t the Answer to the Pension Crisis. Expanding Social Security Is.

The economic fate of workers shouldn't be tied to a stock market that rewards assaults on the working class.

Doug Henwood and Liza Featherstone

Houston Is Being Rebuilt on a Foundation of Wage Theft

The exploitation after the storm.

Bryce Covert

The Specter of Reagan Haunts the GOP’s New Tax Plan

A brief history of how the GOP taxes the poor to reward the rich.

Joel Bleifuss

The Abyss of Motherhood

A tightrope walk without a safety net.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

The Right To Mother and Do Sex Work

In custody battles, sex workers face trial by slut-shaming

From Sewer Socialism to Server Socialism: Appalachia’s Internet Revolution

Chattanoogans are pioneering public broadband.

The Caribou in the Copper Mine

Mining companies seek to carve up Native lands and wildlife habitat to build a $350 million access road.

Kara Walker and the Missing Pages of the History Books

Artist Kara Walker uses visual disruption to restore the significance of Black experiences to the Civil War’s legacy.

Your Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter (Unless You’re Michael Bloomberg)

Consumption shaming is bad science—and bad politics.

A Socialist Case for Curbing Consumption To Stop Climate Change

Combating extractive capitalism is crucial. So is taking the bus.

Dayton Martindale

Does the Natural World Needs Its Own Bill of Rights?

Why environmentalists are working to grant rivers and mountains legal status.

Dayton Martindale

A Year On, Trump Admin Refuses to Drop Charges Against 59 Arrested at Inauguration Protest

The government isn't arguing that the defendants damaged property, but that their presence at the protest makes them guilty.

The 38 Dakota Warriors Lincoln Hanged

Native riders commemorate a forgotten massacre.

Best Books of 2017: In These Times Staff and Reader Picks

From Naomi Klein to Roxane Gay, the reads that made 2017 bearable.

In These Times Staff

Centrist Think Tanks Won’t Save Our Cities

Economic democracy must come from below.

Democrats Can’t Win By Courting Conservative White Voters

It’s time to follow the lead of Black grassroots organizers.

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