February 2020 Volume 44, Issue 02

February 2020

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Viewpoint

Young People Don’t Support Biden. Why Does the Establishment Still Think He’s the Most “Electable”? Joel Bleifuss

We Need Sanders and Warren to Cooperate in the Primary Julian Brave NoiseCat

A Primary Is a Competition. Bernie Should Play To Win. Carl Beijer

The Decade That Put Capitalism On Trial Astra Taylor

Feature

The Barcodes Are Coming! Juan Caicedo

Why Democrats Need To End the Filibuster In These Times Editors

The Oreo Workers Trump Betrayed Stephen Franklin

Why Many Uber Drivers Couldn’t Afford To Stay Home During Australia’s Fires In These Times Editors

Is Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez the Future of Texas? Steven Greenhouse

Dispatch

The Prisoners Forced To Sue for Soap and Toilet Paper Arvind Dilawar

Migrant Children Are Still Being Detained in Chicago Sabrina Gunter

A Win Against Voter Suppression in the South Casey Williams

Culture

What a Janitor Found at a Border Patrol Processing Facility Féi Hernandez

Investigation

10 Years Ago, We Pledged To Help Haiti Rebuild. Then What Happened? Isabel Macdonald

The Barcodes Are Coming!

Juan Caicedo

Why Democrats Need To End the Filibuster

If they actually want to get anything done, Democrats need to kill the filibuster—now.

In These Times Editors

The Oreo Workers Trump Betrayed

Trump used these workers to win the White House. Their union has fought a losing battle against outsourcing ever since.

Stephen Franklin

Why Many Uber Drivers Couldn’t Afford To Stay Home During Australia’s Fires

Uber's business model is built to exploit workers. In 13 major U.S. markets, drivers are paid below minimum wage.

In These Times Editors

Is Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez the Future of Texas?

The Latina labor organizer out to unseat GOP heavyweight Sen. John Cornyn.

Steven Greenhouse

What a Janitor Found at a Border Patrol Processing Facility

Tom Kiefer spent years collecting items confiscated and thrown away by border patrol

The Prisoners Forced To Sue for Soap and Toilet Paper

Prisoners have filed suit against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections due to unsafe living conditions and inadequate medical care.

Migrant Children Are Still Being Detained in Chicago

Heartland Alliance describes itself as a human rights and anti-poverty organization; but it operates five child migrant detention centers in the city.

A Win Against Voter Suppression in the South

While Republicans have purged voter rolls and suppressed Black turnout in the South, voting rights organizers just showed how to win.

Young People Don’t Support Biden. Why Does the Establishment Still Think He’s the Most “Electable”?

Don't believe arguments about "electability" coming from the corporate wing of the Democratic Party.

We Need Sanders and Warren to Cooperate in the Primary

The real fight is for progressive power in the Democratic Party.

Julian Brave NoiseCat

A Primary Is a Competition. Bernie Should Play To Win.

There's no need to hedge our bets.

InvestigationGoodman Institute

10 Years Ago, We Pledged To Help Haiti Rebuild. Then What Happened?

Hundreds of millions in aid went to U.S. corporations and the U.S. military. A fraction went to Haitian institutions.

Isabel Macdonald

The Decade That Put Capitalism On Trial

How the 2008 financial crisis kicked off a new age of dissent

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