September 2020 Volume 44, Issue 09
September 2020
Viewpoint
Community Control Won’t Fix What’s Wrong with Cops
Carl Williams and Christian Williams
To Transform Policing, We Need Community Control
Jazmine Salas
Workers Blow the Whistle on Mass Death
Moe Tkacik
Feature
10 Ways Remote Learning Is Failing Our Students
Dayton Martindale
Social Abstinence Is Not a Sustainable Pandemic Response
In These Times Editors
Trump Is Trying to Put Us on War Footing with China. It’s Up to the Left to Stop It.
Tobita Chow and Jake Werner
The Pandemic Is Exposing the Rotten Core of Our Industrial Food System
Joseph Bullington
Dispatch
On the Cusp of a Sex Ed Revolution
Lizzie Tribone
Covid-19 Hunger Strikes Sweep Migrant Detention Centers
Maurizio Guerrero
Rural Black Lives Matter
Mason Adams
Culture
What Would a Feminist City Look Like?
Apoorva Tadepalli
Dispatch
On the Cusp of a Sex Ed Revolution
Texas has its first opportunity in more than two decades to address gaps in its approach to sex ed.
Lizzie Tribone
Dispatch
Covid-19 Hunger Strikes Sweep Migrant Detention Centers
Jailed migrants are fighting a battle for their lives.
Maurizio Guerrero
Culture
What Would a Feminist City Look Like?
New York’s City Hall encampment provides a model for creating care-centered, inclusive spaces.
Apoorva Tadepalli
Viewpoint
Want to Abolish the Police? The First Step Is Putting Them Under Democratic Control.
Abolition is part of a broader struggle for democracy.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Viewpoint
Community Control Won’t Fix What’s Wrong with Cops
There's no reforming an inherently violent, white supremacist system. We must abolish the police.
Carl Williams and Christian Williams
Viewpoint
To Transform Policing, We Need Community Control
An elected civilian council could crack down on police abuses, and pave the way for longer-term transformations.
Jazmine Salas
Viewpoint
Stop Blaming Individuals for the Spread of Covid and Start Blaming the Government Response
By presenting collective, structural crises as separate, individual problems with separate, individualized solutions, the government abdicates its responsibility to meaningfully intervene.
Joel Bleifuss
Viewpoint
15 Years After Hurricane Katrina, Another Perfect Storm Is Upon Us
When Katrina hit, the mainstream media and Congress both reacted shamefully. Their response to the pandemic is no different.
Joel Bleifuss
Viewpoint
Workers Blow the Whistle on Mass Death
Private equity firms have imposed austerity measures on the hospitals they acquire. In a pandemic, that’s meant countless preventable deaths.
Moe Tkacik
DispatchRural America
Rural Black Lives Matter
After Travon Brown found a cross burning in his yard, he organized a Black Lives Matter march in the rural town of Marion, Va., where hundreds of angry counter-protestors were ready and waiting.
Mason Adams