December 2018 Volume 42, Issue 12

December 2018

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Viewpoint

We Can Fight Climate Change and Still Eat Beef Paige Stanley

Climate-Friendly Beef Is a Myth. Don’t Buy It. Jennifer Molidor

Anything Cows Can Do, Elk Can Do Better Nassim Nobari

When Will Obama Aides Come Clean About U.S.-Saudi War Crimes? Sarah Lazare

Feature

The Alternative to Traditional Banking You’ve Never Heard Of Valerie Vande Panne

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class Thea N. Riofrancos

Inside Geoengineers’ Risky Plan To Block Out the Sun Kate Aronoff

Dispatch

For 40 Years, Alaska Has Modeled a Universal Income. Now That’s in Peril. Yereth Rosen

On Tuesday, Oaklanders Will Decide Whether Landlords Can Evict Them for No Reason Eli Day

Culture

News Feed Fatigue: It’s Getting Harder To Think Jessa Crispin

Actually, We Don’t Need To Grow the Economy Dayton Martindale

China’s Digitized Abyss: YY and the Void of Online Fame Michael Atkinson

15 Years Ago, We Predicted the Financial Crash. We Think Another Is On Its Way. In These Times Editors

Want Better Sex? Try Socialism. Jane Miller

The Alternative to Traditional Banking You’ve Never Heard Of

What Westerners can learn from collective "money circles."

Valerie Vande Panne

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class

Americans are losing faith in governance by the elite.

Thea N. Riofrancos

Inside Geoengineers’ Risky Plan To Block Out the Sun

Some scientists say it’s necessary to save the climate. An indigenous-led opposition says it will only save the fossil fuel economy.

Kate Aronoff

News Feed Fatigue: It’s Getting Harder To Think

The case for taking a break from the news.

Actually, We Don’t Need To Grow the Economy

Protecting the planet requires scaling down, not up.

Dayton Martindale

China’s Digitized Abyss: YY and the Void of Online Fame

Hao Wu’s documentary People’s Republic of Desire explores the dystopia of livestream fandom.

Michael Atkinson

We Can Fight Climate Change and Still Eat Beef

How grass-fed cattle can sequester carbon and rebuild soil.

Climate-Friendly Beef Is a Myth. Don’t Buy It.

There’s no way around it: Take on the meat industry or face ecological disaster.

Jennifer Molidor

Anything Cows Can Do, Elk Can Do Better

Most sustainable food models rely on domesticated animals. They don’t need to—and shouldn’t.

15 Years Ago, We Predicted the Financial Crash. We Think Another Is On Its Way.

In These Times called for real bank regulation back in 2003—it still hasn’t happened.

In These Times Editors

Want Better Sex? Try Socialism.

In "Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism," Kristen R. Ghodsee argues that economic independence for women not only helps all of society—it improves heterosexual relationships too.

For 40 Years, Alaska Has Modeled a Universal Income. Now That’s in Peril.

Is the way to save the dividend through taxing the rich or slashing state services?

On Tuesday, Oaklanders Will Decide Whether Landlords Can Evict Them for No Reason

In a city that has become ground zero for gentrification, black working-class tenants are leading a fight to stay in their homes.

When Will Obama Aides Come Clean About U.S.-Saudi War Crimes?

Now that Saudi Arabia has become a P.R. liability, Samantha Power and Ben Rhodes have quietly condemned the war in Yemen. But when they had the power to stop it, they were complicit.

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