January 2019 Volume 43, Issue 01

January 2019

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Viewpoint

States Can Break Up Big Banks. Here’s How. Dave Kamper

Here’s How Blue States Can Pave the Way for Medicare for All David Dayen

Our Freshwater Emergency Is Worse Than You Think Laura Orlando

We Got a Blue Wave, But We Can Win So Much More—If We Mobilize Now Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Good Candidates Won’t Be Enough in 2020—We Must Overhaul Our Entire Voting System Rob Richie

Inside Sources Say State Dept Refuses To Trace Whether Israel Is Using U.S. Military Aid Illegally Alex Kane

Black People Need Political Power Independent of the Democrats Alicia Garza

Democrats Must Do More To Turn Out Latino Voters in 2020 Candice Bernd

How the Left Can Win in 2020: Primary Centrist Democrats in Blue Districts Sean McElwee

How To Elect Democrats Who Actually Answer To Workers Jane McAlevey

Dispatch

Jailed by an Algorithm Nick Muscavage

“Words Can’t Articulate the Joy”: Wisconsin Workers Celebrate Scott Walker’s Defeat Kathy Wilkes

Culture

How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

These Mexican Artists Are Transforming Weapons Into Instruments Dirce Toca

A Left Sub-caucus in Congress Could Help Push Medicare for All In These Times Staff

What the Civil War Can Teach Us About Trying to Compromise With Trump Phyllis Eckhaus

What If Everyone Got $100 To Donate to the Candidate of Their Choice? In These Times Editors

In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón Zooms in on Class Tensions Ilan Stavans

Good Candidates Won’t Be Enough in 2020—We Must Overhaul Our Entire Voting System

There’s a growing national movement across party lines for multi-member districts and ranked-choice voting.

Rob Richie

Inside Sources Say State Dept Refuses To Trace Whether Israel Is Using U.S. Military Aid Illegally

Weapons paid for by the United States have likely been used in the extrajudicial killings of at least 14 Palestinians, in violation of the Leahy Law.

Alex Kane

Black People Need Political Power Independent of the Democrats

Stacey Abrams’ loss in Georgia could have been prevented.

Alicia Garza

Democrats Must Do More To Turn Out Latino Voters in 2020

This means dedicated voter outreach and a bold, progressive immigration platform.

Candice Bernd

How the Left Can Win in 2020: Primary Centrist Democrats in Blue Districts

Progressives such as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Deb Haaland and Rashida Tlaib show how insurgent candidates can push the whole party left.

Sean McElwee

How To Elect Democrats Who Actually Answer To Workers

Why strikes and workplace power build electoral power.

Jane McAlevey

How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches

Sylvia Federici’s new book explains how violence against women was a necessary precondition for capitalism.

Jude Ellison Sady Doyle

These Mexican Artists Are Transforming Weapons Into Instruments

Prominent Mexican Artists Carla Fernández and Pedro Reyes address gun violence and ways to sustain Indigenous culture in their collaborative exhibit.

A Left Sub-caucus in Congress Could Help Push Medicare for All

Back in 1991, Bernie Sanders helped create the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Now, a sub-caucus within the CPC could help rally the progressive Left.

In These Times Staff

What the Civil War Can Teach Us About Trying to Compromise With Trump

A new history of the antebellum period shows us how remaining moderate can mean letting human rights violations drag on for far too long.

Phyllis Eckhaus

What If Everyone Got $100 To Donate to the Candidate of Their Choice?

Democracy vouchers, explained,

In These Times Editors

States Can Break Up Big Banks. Here’s How.

A healthy economy has no need for mega-banks.

Here’s How Blue States Can Pave the Way for Medicare for All

Democrats were elected on promises of affordable healthcare. This is what states can do even under Trump.

Our Freshwater Emergency Is Worse Than You Think

How blue state governors can address a sprawling national water crisis.

Jailed by an Algorithm

Algorithms that are supposed to remove sentencing bias may perpetuate racism instead, say civil rights groups.

We Got a Blue Wave, But We Can Win So Much More—If We Mobilize Now

This fight is for civilization’s survival—one that will require the mobilization not seen since the civil rights movement.

“Words Can’t Articulate the Joy”: Wisconsin Workers Celebrate Scott Walker’s Defeat

As thrilling as defeat of an archenemy may be, activists here take nothing for granted.

In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón Zooms in on Class Tensions

Set in early 1970s Mexico, a new film explores the life of a domestic worker in a middle-class family.

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