January 2020 Volume 44, Issue 01
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January 2020
Viewpoint
Why Bernie Can’t Be Organizer-In-Chief
Brian Tokar
Warren’s an Ally. We Need a Leader.
Rachel Gilmer
Fox News, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda
Joel Bleifuss
Feature
How a 15-Hour Workweek Could Change Our Lives for the Better
In These Times Editors
What an Elizabeth Warren Presidency Would Look Like
Kathleen Geier
What a Bernie Sanders Presidency Would Look Like
Daniel Denvir
Dispatch
Labor 101 for Undergraduate Workers Seeking To Unionize
Olivia Gieger
Culture
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Dispatch
Labor 101 for Undergraduate Workers Seeking To Unionize
The Northeast Undergraduate Worker Convention is the nation's first annual convention aimed at training undergrad workers in collective organizing.
Olivia Gieger
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Viewpoint
Why Bernie Can’t Be Organizer-In-Chief
Movements, not candidates, should drive progressive agendas.
Brian Tokar
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Viewpoint
Warren’s an Ally. We Need a Leader.
Elizabeth Warren isn’t the president we need in this moment.
Rachel Gilmer
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Viewpoint
Imagine Elizabeth Warren as President. Now Imagine Bernie Sanders.
We asked their supporters to really think through what a progressive president could—and couldn't—do.
Jessica Stites
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Culture
The Grooming Gap: What “Looking the Part” Costs Women
If women don’t conform to beauty expectations, they’re paid less.
Mindy Isser
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Viewpoint
Fox News, Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda
For nearly a quarter of American adults, Fox News is their only cable news source. It tells them what Trump wants them to hear.
Joel Bleifuss
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Dispatch
Using Roleplaying To Imagine Life Under a Green New Deal—Dungeons & Dragons Style
Instead of wizards and clerics, Iowans are envisioning roles like community planners and memory stewards, in an environmentally and economically just society.
Gavin Aronsen
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Viewpoint
Even in Bankruptcy, Coal Companies Can’t Stop Selling Out Workers
The industry sees its employees like it sees the Earth: Just another resource to exploit.
Sarah Lazare
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Dispatch
“Our Biggest Enemy Is PG&E”: Inside the Fight to Put Utilities Under Public Control
Evacuees of the Kincade Fire and members of the Democratic Socialists of America are demanding PG&E be dismantled.
Nuala Bishari