Opinion

We Can't Afford To Ignore Cop City

In These Times Executive Director Alex Han asks us to imagine a world where the needs of the people outweigh the powerful.

Alex Han

If Banks Can Be Bailed Out, Student Debt Can Be Canceled

Biden must act now to make student debt relief a reality—no matter what the Supreme Court says.

Braxton Brewington

The University of California Is Escalating Its Crackdown on Dissent

Three academic workers at the University of California, San Diego, were arrested on felony charges of vandalism and conspiracy to commit a crime. They were using washable markers and chalk.

Rafael Jaime

U.S. Elected Socialists Just Held Their Largest Gathering in Nearly 40 Years

A recent conference brought together democratic socialist elected officials from across the United States—including Bernie Sanders—to collaborate and strategize on advancing progressive public policy.

David Duhalde

Working Class History Is Happening Before Our Eyes

In These Times Executive Director Alex Han discusses how and why workers are organizing in unprecedented numbers as we speak.

Alex Han

How to Build the Media Our Movements Need

Bhaskar Sunkara, Founding Editor of Jacobin and President of The Nation, and Alex Han, Executive Director of In These Times, on building left media that can fight the Right's propaganda machine.

Alex Han and Bhaskar Sunkara

Abortion Rights are Trans Rights

One year after Dobbs, a record amount of anti-LGBT legislation has been unleashed across the country. What’s needed now—more than ever—is solidarity among marginalized genders.

Lexie Bean

Dobbs Means People Like Me Can’t Plan Their Future

A woman reflects on her abortion and says she is “living proof” that it can sometimes be the best path.

Ryan-Simone

How Chicago Broke the Neoliberal Fever

The Windy City has long been a laboratory for free market fundamentalism. But the election of Mayor Brandon Johnson and a landmark number of left-wing City Council members indicates the emergence of a new Chicago school.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Tony Evers Just Signed Off on the Largest Voucher School Expansion in 30 Years

Public school advocates say they feel betrayed by Wisconsin’s “Education Governor” and that the budget package that was on his desk is “a bad deal” that includes “a pittance to public schools.”

Samantha Winslow

Robert Reich: Trump Won't Get a Civil War Over His Indictment

Donald Trump is as dangerous as ever, and is inciting violence. But the country is not going to war with itself over his own narcissistic cravings.

Robert Reich

Biden Is Turning Out to Be More Like Obama Than FDR

After passing stimulus programs and promising a Roosevelt-like administration, President Biden and national Democrats are back to embracing austerity. We deserve better.

Scott Remer

On CORE’s 15th Anniversary, Reflecting on the Teachers Caucus That Changed Chicago—and the Nation

The Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators was formed in 2008 when a group of educators and union members came together to transform the Chicago Teachers Union. What they would build would end up changing the city—and country—forever.

Jackson Potter

Republicans Are Now Trying to Defund the Libraries

Claiming to protect children, Republicans are going after libraries and librarians instead of the police, gun manufacturers, and actual child sexual abusers.

Sonali Kolhatkar

How Land Swaps Turn Public Lands into Private Playgrounds

Land exchanges, a management tool used by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, too often benefit rich landowners at the public’s expense.

Erica Rosenberg

The War Over No Strike Clauses Has a New Front Line

In Erie, PA, Wabtec workers are poised to fight for the right to strike.

Hamilton Nolan

You Can’t Organize Alone

Political education used to happen in person. We should bring that practice back.

Keisa Reynolds

The College Board’s Profiteering Should Have No Place in Public Education

The College Board is selling our students' futures. It's just business as usual under racial capitalism.

Kinjo Kiema