August 2021 Volume 45, Issue 8

slaying the Gerrymander

August 2021

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Labor

Striking Alabama Miners Are Done Playing Nice

Viewpoint

We Need Radical Economic Change—Not Biden's Corporate Capitalism Stacey Sutton

We Don't Have Time for Climate Symbolism Mark Schlosberg

Feature

Biden's Invisible Border Wall Maurizio Guerrero

Is Gerrymandering Forever? Katjusa Cisar

Dispatch

Social Work Students Decry SSA’s New Name After Crown Family Donation Maryum Elnasseh

A Wisconsin Hog Farm Would Produce 9.4 Million Gallons of Manure a Year. Nearby Residents Live in Fear. Hannah Faris

Culture

Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It? Malkia Devich-Cyril

Departments

The "Landback" Movement Would Return Stolen Land to Indigenous Stewardship In These Times Editors

Let's Not Forget the Suffering the United States Has Inflicted on Guatemala In These Times Editors

Biden's Invisible Border Wall

The Biden administration is expanding surveillance along the Southern border, pushing migrants into harm’s way.

Maurizio Guerrero

Is Gerrymandering Forever?

Gerrymandering guarantees undemocratic elections. Activists in Wisconsin are organizing to win an uphill battle for a fairer process.

Katjusa Cisar

Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?

A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building.

Malkia Devich-Cyril

The "Landback" Movement Would Return Stolen Land to Indigenous Stewardship

Part of the larger decolonization movement, landback is critical in dismantling white supremacy and mitigating climate disaster.

In These Times Editors

We Need Radical Economic Change—Not Biden's Corporate Capitalism

Stimulus packages are not enough. Only practices of deep democracy and shared ownership can end our cycle of economic disaster.

We Don't Have Time for Climate Symbolism

As we hurtle towards climate chaos, Democratic leaders remain all talk and no action on serious climate policy.

Mark Schlosberg

Social Work Students Decry SSA’s New Name After Crown Family Donation

When the military-industrial complex meets social work.

Maryum Elnasseh

Striking Alabama Miners Are Done Playing Nice

Hundreds of UMWA miners remain on the picket line at the Warrior Met Coal mine.

A Wisconsin Hog Farm Would Produce 9.4 Million Gallons of Manure a Year. Nearby Residents Live in Fear.

Crawford County is up against Roth Feeder Pig II, which would be the largest hog CAFO in the state and could permanently pollute local aquifers.

Let's Not Forget the Suffering the United States Has Inflicted on Guatemala

In July 1996, In These Times documented the CIA's myriad abuses during the Guatemalan Civil War. It's a history that Vice President Kamala Harris has conveniently ignored.

In These Times Editors

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