November 2018 Volume 42, Issue 11

November 2018

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Viewpoint

Yes, Voter Suppression Is Real. But Young Voters May Bridge the Gap. Joel Bleifuss

94% of Indigenous Women in Seattle Have Experienced Sexual Violence. We Need To Tell Their Stories. Andrew Schwartz

What Russiagate Skeptics Get Wrong John Feffer

How Pro-War Democrats Use Russiagate To Bloat the Military—And Why That’s Dangerous Sarah Lazare

Why I’m Sick and Tired of Hearing About Russiagate Jessica Stites

We Believed Anita Hill Joel Bleifuss

Feature

The Left Is Already Winning the 2020 Presidential Race Theo Anderson

Trump’s Space Force Is No Joke Branko Marcetic

Mariame Kaba: Social Movements Brought Down Rahm—Now They Can Transform Chicago Sarah Lazare

Dispatch

In the Shadow of Detroit, a Michigan City Is Taking the Solar Transition Into Its Own Hands Valerie Vande Panne

Baltimore Won a Big Victory for Affordable Housing. The Next Goal: Community Control. Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Socialists Versus Landlords David Dayen

Jerry Brown Didn’t Invite Grassroots Activists to His Climate Summit—They Came Anyway Kate Aronoff

Culture

The Typical Workplace Is a Dictatorship. But It Doesn’t Have To Be. In These Times Editors

Black Women Voters Aren’t “Saving America.” We’re Saving Ourselves. Joshunda Sanders

America’s Great Strike Waves Have Shaped the Country. We Can Unleash Another. Shaun Richman

Serial Misogyn-Neigh: The New “BoJack” Explores How We Let Famous Men, And Horses, Off the Hook Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

The Left Is Already Winning the 2020 Presidential Race

For the first time in 40 years, bold progressive policies are setting the terms of the debate.

Theo Anderson

Trump’s Space Force Is No Joke

China, Russia, and the U.S. are already militarizing space. Here’s why that’s dangerous.

Branko Marcetic

Mariame Kaba: Social Movements Brought Down Rahm—Now They Can Transform Chicago

A conversation with writer and organizer, Mariame Kaba.

Sarah Lazare

The Typical Workplace Is a Dictatorship. But It Doesn’t Have To Be.

Socialists and progressives have a variety of ideas to bring democracy into the workplace.

In These Times Editors

In the Shadow of Detroit, a Michigan City Is Taking the Solar Transition Into Its Own Hands

Amid poverty and frequent power blackouts, a cutting-edge renewable energy program is underway in Highland Park.

Valerie Vande Panne

Black Women Voters Aren’t “Saving America.” We’re Saving Ourselves.

Since at least the 1830s, Black women have organized, campaigned, and voted for issues that matter to us most.

Joshunda Sanders

Baltimore Won a Big Victory for Affordable Housing. The Next Goal: Community Control.

Housing organizers won $20 million annually in city money for housing. They want that housing to be democratically controlled.

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Yes, Voter Suppression Is Real. But Young Voters May Bridge the Gap.

The midterms are rigged against people of color and the poor.

94% of Indigenous Women in Seattle Have Experienced Sexual Violence. We Need To Tell Their Stories.

Abigail Echo-Hawk on a hidden epidemic.

Andrew Schwartz

Socialists Versus Landlords

Los Angeles DSA is harnessing anger over skyrocketing rent to get nonvoters to the polls in November.

What Russiagate Skeptics Get Wrong

The Left can call for military deescalation while still holding Putin accountable for electoral meddling.

How Pro-War Democrats Use Russiagate To Bloat the Military—And Why That’s Dangerous

Russia became the bipartisan justification for an $716 billion defense budget and nuclear build-up.

Why I’m Sick and Tired of Hearing About Russiagate

Mueller won’t save us from the deep flaws in our democracy that brought us Trump.

Jerry Brown Didn’t Invite Grassroots Activists to His Climate Summit—They Came Anyway

While the elite discuss band-aids, organizers call for real solutions.

We Believed Anita Hill

In 1991, an alleged sexual harasser was appointed to the Supreme Court. Let’s not repeat history.

America’s Great Strike Waves Have Shaped the Country. We Can Unleash Another.

Erik Loomis’ "A History of America in Ten Strikes" is a powerful reminder of the need for worker militancy.

Serial Misogyn-Neigh: The New “BoJack” Explores How We Let Famous Men, And Horses, Off the Hook

Season five of BoJack Horseman turns a critical eye on its characters and itself.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

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