December 2023 Volume 47, Issue 10
December 2023
Labor
The Fascist Movement’s Biggest Threat: Labor Unions?
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Viewpoint
The Rise of the Far Right Is a Global Phenomenon
Alberto Toscano
Feature
Losing the Plot: The “Leftists” Who Turn Right
Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet
The Right is Prepared For This Moment. Are We?
Jamelle Bouie, Alex Han, Nancy MacLean, Tarso Luís Ramos and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
Dispatch
Queer Louisianans Are Fighting Book Bans—And Winning
Katie Jane Fernelius
Conservatives Want to Destroy Public Schools. Communities are Fighting Back.
Jennifer Berkshire
2023 Was the Year of Anti-Trans Hysteria
Heron Greenesmith
Culture
Republicans Can’t Stop Lying About Their Base
Sarah Posner
Departments
Moms Against Fascism
Dayton Martindale
History Didn’t Begin on Oct. 7
In These Times Editors and Hussein Ibish
DispatchThe Right-Wing Issue
Queer Louisianans Are Fighting Book Bans—And Winning
“They say their goal is just to get rid of pornographic books, but in no place has it ever stopped there.”
Katie Jane Fernelius
DepartmentsThe Right-Wing Issue
Moms Against Fascism
LGBTQ parents in Southern California are fighting queerphobic hate with “a fuckton of spray paint” and “Know your Local Fascist” zines.
Dayton Martindale
DispatchThe Right-Wing Issue
Conservatives Want to Destroy Public Schools. Communities are Fighting Back.
“The decision to hate your neighbors and reject your public school isn’t actually the most affordable, practical or preferable path for most people.”
Jennifer Berkshire
ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue
National Conservatives, Postliberals and the Nietzschean Right: Meet Today’s Terrifying GOP
The New Right is mad, organized and wholly unafraid to wield state power.
Matt McManus
ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue
How Colleges Became Recruitment Hubs for the Gen-Z Right
Right-wing Zoomers are outflanking their MAGA elders in enthusiastic embrace of radically anti-democratic, exclusionary and bigoted beliefs.
Ben Lorber
CultureThe Right-Wing Issue
Republicans Can’t Stop Lying About Their Base
Party of the People exemplifies Republicans’ populist bait and switch.
Sarah Posner
ComicsThe Right-Wing Issue
Can Comics Fight the Right? We're Going to Try, Anyway.
DepartmentsIsrael & PalestineThe Right-Wing Issue
History Didn’t Begin on Oct. 7
Here’s what the press gets wrong on Palestine.
In These Times Editors and Hussein Ibish
DispatchThe Right-Wing Issue
2023 Was the Year of Anti-Trans Hysteria
23 states passed laws targeting trans youth, with implications for us all.
Heron Greenesmith
ViewpointIsrael & PalestineThe Right-Wing Issue
Israel’s Brutality Is Stoking the Imagination of India's Far Right
As the genocide in Gaza continues, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking notes.
Aparna Gopalan
ViewpointIsrael & PalestineThe Right-Wing Issue
The Right's Persecution of Palestine Supporters Looks a Lot Like a New Red Scare
Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.
Nashwa Bawab
ViewpointThe Right-Wing Issue
The Rise of the Far Right Is a Global Phenomenon
Facing a planetary wave of far-right authoritarianism, from Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to Argentina’s Javier Milei, the Left must learn to “organize despair.”
Alberto Toscano