Opinion

Independent Press for Working People and a Free Palestine

In These Times was recently awarded the 2024 Izzy Award for “outstanding achievement in independent media.” This speech has been significantly edited for length and clarity.

Alex Han

Students, Gaza and a New Vision of Safety

"We Keep Us Safe" is more than a slogan at student encampments. It inspires an avenue to protection and community that undercuts a security state bolstered by genocide—and can show us all a path forward.

Sarah Jaffe

Gaza Has Exposed Journalistic and Academic “Neutrality” as the Conservative Deflection It Always Was

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, elite liberal institutions had no problem picking a side. After 37,000 Palestinians are killed by Israel—things are now more complicated.

Adam Johnson

Biden’s Bloody-Red Line in Rafah

Israel’s horrific attack on displaced Palestinians in Rafah comes as the Biden administration is facing increasing global isolation over its support for the assault on Gaza.

Phyllis Bennis

Corporations Have Very Good Reasons to Break Labor Laws and Bust Unions

Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Education in Gaza Has Been Decimated, but the Spirit of Refaat Alareer Will Prevail

The student encampments and other protests like the "Fund Education, Not Genocide" rally in Washington D.C. this week are the expressions of solidarity and activism we need.

Yousef Aljamal

Union Power Can Change Campus Protests Forever

A strike authorization vote at the University of California over repression of Gaza protesters hints at labor's political potential.

Hamilton Nolan

AI Is Already Being Used to Kill Palestinians in Gaza

Artificial intelligence is currently being deployed by the Israeli military in its brutal assault. The tech isn’t a future threat—it’s here.

Saqib Bhatti

Unable to Defend Biden’s Gaza Policy on Its Merits, Elite Pundits Turn to Anti-Zoomer Psychobabble

According to mainstream commentators, kids these days are opposing U.S.-backed mass killing because of Chinese psyops, rigid groupthink and social contagion.

Adam Johnson

Antifascism After Gaza

Genocide abroad—and growing political repression at home—prove that the “fascism question” goes far beyond Trump.

Alberto Toscano

“It's a Statement About Who the University Belongs to”

A roundtable about resistance to privatization and the corporate governance of universities with Eman Abdelhadi (Univ. of Chicago), Calvin John Smiley (Hunter), Layla Hedroug (Yale), Owen Levens (DePaul), and an organizer from National Students for Justice in Palestine.

Nashwa Bawab

Presidente de la UAW: El Primero de Mayo De 2028 Podría Transformar el Movimiento Sindical—y el Mundo

Shawn Fain hace un llamado a los sindicatos de todo el mundo para que alineen las fechas de vencimiento de sus contratos para lograr un impacto masivo.

Shawn Fain

Shawn Fain: May Day 2028 Could Transform the Labor Movement—and the World

The UAW President is calling on unions everywhere to align their contract expiration dates for mass impact.

Shawn Fain

Last Year, $1,748 of Your Taxes Went to Corporate Pentagon Contractors

On average, U.S taxpayers paid more to military contractors in 2023 than a month’s rent. Those are funds that could go to healthcare or education—but instead are being spent on war.

Lindsay Koshgarian

Project 2025 Is Already Here

Core aspects of the far-right plan to overhaul U.S. government are already being put into place, through an anti-abortion influence campaign overseas.

Gillian Kane

Congress Has Decided to Stay Far Too White

The GOP-led House has eliminated the office on diversity and inclusion, maintaining a system of racial exclusion in the halls of power.

James Jones

Sunday's Rally in New York Is Just About Israeli Hostages—that's Not OK

"I cannot call for the release of the hostages without an explicit demand for an immediate cease-fire and an end to the Israeli assault on Gaza."

Ellen Lippmann

Books Are the Missing Piece of a Unionized American Culture Industry

Organizing book stores like Barnes & Noble could lift up the entire creative underclass.

Hamilton Nolan