February 2022 Volume 46, Issue 2
February 2022
Feature
What's Next for the Defund Movement?
Kandace Montgomery, Robin Wonsley Worlobah, Andrew R. Hairston, Willie Burnley Jr. and Makia Green
Black Farmers Sow the Seeds for the Future
Randi Love
Dispatch
Farmers Reject Nicor's Pipe Dream
Zoe Pharo
Culture
The New Judge Judy Is As Classist As Ever
Yasmin Nair
Departments
Is Decentralizing the Internet the Answer?
In These Times Editors
Vaccine Apartheid: Straight from the Measles Playbook
In These Times Editors
Dispatch
Mexico Has Become a "Roofless Prison" for Haitian Refugees—With Biden's Help
Thousands of migrants are trapped at the border as the United States and Mexico crack down on deportations—under Biden's policies, many will be expelled.
Chantal Flores
Departments
Is Decentralizing the Internet the Answer?
Bitcoin, crypto, blockchain... what does it mean, and is anything coming from Big Tech really "revolutionary?"
In These Times Editors
Departments
Vaccine Apartheid: Straight from the Measles Playbook
Thirty years after the 1990s measles outbreak, it's still profits over people in Covid-19 America.
In These Times Editors
DispatchRural America
Farmers Reject Nicor's Pipe Dream
Residents of the historic Black farming community of Pembroke, Illinois want an energy upgrade—but they want renewables, not fossil fuels.
Zoe Pharo
Culture
The New Judge Judy Is As Classist As Ever
How a TV justice extends contempt for the poor.
Yasmin Nair
Dispatch
Last Resort Abortion in a Rural Reproductive Rights Wasteland
“If abortion is taken away in Wisconsin completely, people will do much worse things.”
Sam Stroozas