Movements

Baltimore Won a Big Victory for Affordable Housing. The Next Goal: Community Control.

Housing organizers won $20 million annually in city money for housing. They want that housing to be democratically controlled.

Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Jerry Brown Didn’t Invite Grassroots Activists to His Climate Summit—They Came Anyway

While the elite discuss band-aids, organizers call for real solutions.

Kate Aronoff

How Unions Can Solve the Housing Crisis

The labor movement once built thousands of low-cost co-op apartments for working class New Yorkers. It could do so again.

Erik Forman

With Rahm Out, Chicago’s Black Youth Demand Mayoral Candidates Side With Communities—Not Police

A community survey says residents don’t want a police academy on Chicago’s West Side. Six mayoral candidates weigh in.

Isabel Bloom

Below the Surface of ICE: The Corporations Profiting From Immigrant Detention

Activists are targeting the companies that make ICE run.

David Dayen

Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids

As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without alerting Child and Family Services.

Valerie Vande Panne

Will Mexico’s New President Declare Independence From the United States?

At public forums, Mexicans are pushing Andrés Manuel López Obrador to break with the U.S. on migration and drug policy.

Kent Paterson

What It Really Means To Abolish ICE

The root of the problem is the criminalization of immigrants.

In These Times Editors

When the “Cure” for Homosexuality Is Torture

Ecuador led the way on LGBTQ rights, but abusive “gay cure” clinics persist.

Kimberley Brown

Locking Up Immigrant Kids, Again

Our nation's past treatment of immigrant families doesn’t make the current situation any less horrifying—but we need it to inform our longterm pressure on the Democrats.

Jessica Stites

Nonunion Workers Can Save Unions. We Just Need to Reimagine How We Collect Dues.

The case for voluntary payroll deductions to donate to unions.

Shaun Richman

It’s Time for Unions To Let Go of Exclusive Representation

Janus calls for a radical rethinking of labor law.

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, and Peter Kellman

A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XL

At a June corn-planting ceremony, the Ponca Tribe took ownership of land in the pipeline’s path.

Justin Perkins

How To End the Tyranny of the Nonunion Workplace

To overcome right to work, we need rights at work.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

After Janus, How to Tilt the Balance of Power Back to Workers

There’s a simple fix to Janus’s “free-rider” problem.

Jessica Stites and Aaron Tang

How Portland Occupiers Shut Down ICE

Protesters kept the facility closed for 10 days. Although federal police reopened it June 28, occupiers say, "The camp is not going anywhere."

Arun Gupta

Cooperative Banking for Black Lives

After facing decades of disinvestment and targeting by powerful financial institutions, African-American-owned credit unions could offer a way to build economic power and grow black wealth.

Valerie Vande Panne

INVESTIGATION: The Troubled History of the Fund Tapped for Rahm’s Controversial Cop Academy

$20 million in West Side TIF money for job creation has sat unspent, and another $36 million was "ported" to other districts. Now more than $10 million is being used for a police academy that will create only 100 temporary jobs.

Rebecca Burns