Opinion

We Shouldn’t Have to Work Ourselves to Death

Why raising the retirement age is a very bad idea.

Christopher R. Martin

Brandon Johnson Took on Republican Megadonors—and Won. Is Helen Gym Next?

In These Times Executive Director Alex Han argues that what just happened in Chicago—and what happens next in Philadelphia—sets the table for what’s possible for our country in 2024.

Alex Han

Brandon Johnson Won the Race for Chicago’s Mayor By Loving and Fighting for the City

Johnson defeated a conservative opponent in Paul Vallas and will take office as a strong supporter of progressive politics and workers’ rights.

Kari Lydersen

None of This Garbage Is Important

Let's not spend the next two years gleefully hypnotizing ourselves, again.

Hamilton Nolan

Policing Still Won't Save Chicago

The promise to add more police is a clarion call for the total occupation of poor neighborhoods.

Anthony Ehlers

Race and Uncertainty as Chicago’s Voters Head to the Polls

Salim Muwakkil

The Hunger Cliff Shows That the GOP Is Pro-Poverty

Millions of people are losing essential food assistance because Republicans want to impose work requirements that benefit corporations—not families.

Jim Pugh

“He Sold Our Schools off to the Highest Bidder”

A look inside Paul Vallas' history of harming public education and a sampling of the shock doctrine politics, anti-union postures, neoliberal policies and budgetary schemes he brought to school districts around the country—and world—and the havoc they helped create.

David I. Backer and Jason Wozniak

Why a Veteran Education Reform Writer Thinks Chicagoans Should Be Worried About Paul Vallas

Schneider writes that "whenever I hear the name Paul Vallas, I immediately think of a man who likes to take earmarked funding and redirect it in shallow ways that produce the appearance of fiscal solutions."

Mercedes K. Schneider

The Chicago Mayoral Race Is High Stakes for Working People

In a new video, workers speak out against Paul Vallas’ destructive record on budgets and public education.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Immigration Policy Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

For 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has made life a nightmare for millions—but Dreamers like me have seen that there’s another way.

Alliyah Lusuegro

Dark Money Conservatives Have Their Eye on Wisconsin’s Top Court. We Can Stop Them.

Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes on why the upcoming Wisconsin State Supreme Court election is one of the most important elections of his life—and why we should all take notice.

Mandela Barnes

Biden Betrays Youth With Willow Project—and Breaks His Own Promise

We need a youth movement more powerful than the fossil fuel industry. Why Sunrise Movement organizers are fighting to end the fossil fuel era.

Dejah Powell

East Palestine: “We Basically Nuked a Town with Chemicals So We Could Get a Railroad Open”

Companies should never again be allowed to do what Norfolk Southern did to this Ohio community.

Tish O'Dell and Chad Nicholson

Make One Big Higher Ed Union

Campus workers are organizing more than anyone else. It's time for them to unify.

Hamilton Nolan

SVB's Bailout Signals a Financial System Still Rotten to the Core

The spectacular collapse of Silicon Valley Bank was caused by corruption, financial recklessness and poor decision-making. How much longer will we put up with this?

Branko Marcetic

Biden’s New Budget Is a Progressive Opening Gambit

While Republicans are proposing to slash social programs, the White House has released a plan to boost policies that help working families while increasing taxes on the rich and corporations.

Max B. Sawicky

La Operación Lone Star Ha Costado Casi $4.5 Mil Millones. ¿En Qué Más Se Podría Haber Utilizado Ese Dinero?

Priscilla Lugo