October 2019 Volume 43, Issue 10

October 2019

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Viewpoint

How the U.S. Left Should Approach China Tobita Chow

The “Democratic” in DSA Joel Bleifuss

The Debates Are Too Important To Be in the Hands of Corporate Media and the DNC Julie Hollar

Want To Fix the Debates? Shut Down the Trump-Style Theatrics. Susan J. Douglas

Feature

33% of Parents Went Into Debt to Pay for Summer Childcare in 2018 In These Times Staff

What the Media Gets Wrong About Antifa In These Times Editors

For Incarcerated Workers, Summer Heat Can Be a Death Sentence Ella Fassler

Unions Have Supported Democrats for Decades. It’s Time for Dems To Keep Their Promises. Diana Babineau

Dispatch

Whose Grid? Our Grid! Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control Alex Schwartz

At First-Ever Native American Presidential Forum, Candidates Answer to Centuries of Injustice Stephanie Woodard

Culture

A CAP Analyst’s Red-Baiting Book Accidentally Makes the Case for Socialism Phyllis Eckhaus

Investigation

Treated Like Meat: Women in Meatpacking Say #MeToo Lauren Kaori Gurley

33% of Parents Went Into Debt to Pay for Summer Childcare in 2018

This year’s back-to-school deals: pens, pencils, and... childcare?

In These Times Staff

What the Media Gets Wrong About Antifa

Antifa's decades-long history shows the movement runs deeper than a few vegan milkshakes.

In These Times Editors

For Incarcerated Workers, Summer Heat Can Be a Death Sentence

Incarcerated workers are subject to cruel--and dangerously hot--conditions in the summer. This will only worsen with climate change.

Ella Fassler

Unions Have Supported Democrats for Decades. It’s Time for Dems To Keep Their Promises.

Unions have played a critical role in helping Democrats get elected. What do they have to show for it?

Diana Babineau

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Treated Like Meat: Women in Meatpacking Say #MeToo

At the world’s largest pork processing company, Smithfield Foods, workers say as long as lines are moving fast, supervisors who sexually harass them get a free pass.

Lauren Kaori Gurley

How the U.S. Left Should Approach China

From trade policy to Hong Kong, progressives must oppose xenophobia and nationalism while advancing labor and human rights.

The “Democratic” in DSA

The Democratic Socialists of America recommitted itself to using “elections, public offices and legislation” to build support for democratic socialist ideas.

A CAP Analyst’s Red-Baiting Book Accidentally Makes the Case for Socialism

Warren advisor Ganesh Sitaraman and Yale Law School professor Anne L. Alstott bend over backward to fix capitalism. And prove they can’t.

Phyllis Eckhaus

Whose Grid? Our Grid! Chicago’s Campaign To Put Electricity Under Public Control

A democratically owned electric utility could fast-track the city's transition to clean energy.

The Debates Are Too Important To Be in the Hands of Corporate Media and the DNC

We need independently run debates that put substantive policy discussion first.

Want To Fix the Debates? Shut Down the Trump-Style Theatrics.

The sensationalist, ratings-first format needs to change—and candidates should boycott debates until it does.

Susan J. Douglas

At First-Ever Native American Presidential Forum, Candidates Answer to Centuries of Injustice

With Indian country’s electoral power growing, presidential hopefuls pledged to honor treaties and enact structural change.

Stephanie Woodard

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