October 2023 Volume 47, Issue 8

October 2023
Viewpoint
Feature
Workers Are Dying From the Heat: Why Is It so Hard to Protect Them?
Maurizio Guerrero
The Case for Child Welfare Abolition
Roxanna Asgarian
Dispatch
Don't Pave Paradise
Ellie Heffernan
Culture
Art Against Occupation
Matt A. Hanson
Departments
It's on All of Us to Dismantle Colorism
Dayton Martindale
Conservatives Can't Stop Waging War on Schools
In These Times Editors

DispatchRural America
Don't Pave Paradise
A West Virginia community rallied to stave off the destruction of Cacapon Resort State Park by private developers. Will it last?
Ellie Heffernan

Dispatch
How San Diego Built a Surveillance Apparatus Under the Guise of “Sustainability”
What started as a green infrastructure project quickly spiraled into a crisis of mass surveillance.
Jesse Marx

CultureIsrael & Palestine
Art Against Occupation
Malak Mattar's London show examines the U.K.' s role in Palestinian colonization.
Matt A. Hanson

Departments
Conservatives Can't Stop Waging War on Schools
Fifteen years ago, Kate Sheppard reported on the propaganda within the most-used government textbook in America. Now, right-wing fearmongering has once again reared its head in Florida schools.
In These Times Editors

Viewpoint
The Majority of Polling Places are Inaccessible. A Disabled Voter Bill of Rights Could Change That.
We are seeing a concerted effort to push disabled voters like me out of the democratic process across the South—and we have to fight back.
Dom Kelly

Viewpoint
Autoworkers—And All of Us—Deserve a Much Shorter Workweek
A 20-hour workweek is ours for the taking.
Alex Han