April 2019 Volume 43, Issue 04

April 2019

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Viewpoint

Trump Wants To Make the 2020 Election All About Socialism. Yes, Let’s. Joel Bleifuss

Does Medicare for All Mean Abolishing Insurance Companies? Natalie Shure and Max B. Sawicky

Rashida Tlaib: Impeach Trump Now Rashida Tlaib

A Historic Election in Chicago Cracks the Machine Kari Lydersen

Feature

Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever. Elizabeth Zach

Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker Roland Paulsen

The Case for Opening Our Borders Brianna Rennix

Dispatch

The Cooperative Acupuncture Clinics Popping Up in Middle America Valerie Vande Panne

Activists Sue LaGrange, Georgia, for Denying Water, Gas and Electricity to Undocumented Immigrants Allison Salerno

Brazil’s Labor Unions Prepare for War with Far-Right President Jair Bolsanaro Michael Fox

Tiffany Cabán—A Queer, Millennial, DSA-Backed Latina—Has Made History in Queens Douglas Grant

Culture

We Were Against ICE Before It Existed In These Times Editors

Black Women, Let Your Anger Out Joshunda Sanders

Could Walmart Be a Model for a Socialist Future? Peter Frase

Filing Your Taxes Is Already Difficult. The House Just Passed a Bill That Keeps It That Way Forever.

The new bill could keep H&R Block and Intuit’s profits high—while keeping your taxes complicated to file.

Elizabeth Zach

Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Self-Serving Optimists Like Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker

There’s a reason Bill Gates loves Pinker and Rosling—their analyses obscure inequality.

Roland Paulsen

The Case for Opening Our Borders

Democrats cannot have it both ways. If you oppose jailing and exiling people for crossing an invisible line, you must be in favor of significantly opening our borders. Fortunately, that’s fine.

Brianna Rennix

The Cooperative Acupuncture Clinics Popping Up in Middle America

With skyrocketing healthcare costs, residents of Middle America are turning to acupuncture.

Valerie Vande Panne

We Were Against ICE Before It Existed

The criminalization of immigrants goes back well before ICE’s inception.

In These Times Editors

Activists Sue LaGrange, Georgia, for Denying Water, Gas and Electricity to Undocumented Immigrants

Without a Social Security number and U.S.-issued photo ID, you can’t get basic utilities in cities across the South.

Allison Salerno

Black Women, Let Your Anger Out

Chronic stress is killing us. We can’t keep repressing our rage.

Joshunda Sanders

Trump Wants To Make the 2020 Election All About Socialism. Yes, Let’s.

The Right is trying to redbait—but it will backfire.

Does Medicare for All Mean Abolishing Insurance Companies?

Two experts debate.

Natalie Shure and Max B. Sawicky

Brazil’s Labor Unions Prepare for War with Far-Right President Jair Bolsanaro

Bolsanaro has lowered the minimum wage, dismantled labor law enforcement and is threatening pension cuts.

Tiffany Cabán—A Queer, Millennial, DSA-Backed Latina—Has Made History in Queens

Meet Tiffany Cabán, the 31-year-old queer Latina public defender who earned Queens DSA’s endorsement.

Rashida Tlaib: Impeach Trump Now

Every day that we don’t address corruption, we are setting a precedent and eroding our democracy.

Could Walmart Be a Model for a Socialist Future?

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue in a new book that megacorporations—although odious—demonstrate the massive central planning we need.

A Historic Election in Chicago Cracks the Machine

The old guard is on the way out, and a progressive future for the city is coming into focus.

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