Opinion

Before Bernie, There Was Jesse

For a brief moment 30 years ago, it looked like our first black president would be the leader of a multiracial working-class coalition.

Salim Muwakkil

Why Keith Ellison and Jeremy Corbyn Think We Should Cap CEO Pay

Does it make sense for a boss to earn more than 200 times what a worker does? The case for a maximum wage.

Dayton Martindale

Does Post-Human Mean Part-Plant? A Look Inside a Fungal Utopia.

An artist asks what becoming one with nature could look like.

Sasha Kramer

Want To Know How To Fix Facebook? Listen to Black Twitter.

For years, Black people have been the canaries in the coal mine for social media abuses.

Kimberly C. Ellis

Inside the Closed Facebook Groups Where the Teacher Strikes Began

How Facebook helped make the wave of teachers’ strikes possible.

Lois Weiner

We’re All Zucked

Tepid regulations aren’t enough to break Facebook’s hold on our personal data.

Jacob Silverman

These Statistics Show Why Gazans Are Risking Their Lives To Protest Israel

The humanitarian crisis and the current death toll.

Sasha Kramer

Say It Ain’t Joe: Why Anointing Biden for 2020 Is a Terrible Idea

When will the Democrats learn that Americans don’t want centrism?

Joel Bleifuss

Why This Iraq War Vet Is Speaking Out Against Trump’s Reckless Foreign Policy

To expand the anti-war movement, Maggie Martin is connecting struggles against U.S. militarism at home and abroad.

Tanner Howard

Tariffs Aren’t the Best Way To Protect U.S. Steelworkers. Global Solidarity Is.

Defending workers' rights will mean standing with fellow laborers in China and the Global South. Trump's tariffs aren't the answer.

Katy Fox-Hodess

A Pro-Union Case for Steel Tariffs

United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard on how tariffs could benefit American workers.

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President

How Tariffs Are Playing Into Trump’s Xenophobic Agenda

Trump's anti-China protectionism and "free trade" neoliberalism are both dead ends. To confront multinational corporate power, the answer is global solidarity.

Tobita Chow

Should We Primary Every Democrat?

Three views on left electoral strategy ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.

In These Times Writers

The Colonial Roots of Gun Culture

The origins of the U.S. gun obsession lie in the violent dispossession of Native Americans.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Guns Have Always Been Vital to Black Political Struggle

From slave revolts to self-defense, Black revolutionary history is often ignored in the gun control conversation.

Charles Cobb Jr.

We Can Fight for Gun Control Without Locking People Up

Solutions rooted in policing and prisons just contribute to a culture of violence.

Daniel Denvir

The Arc of History Doesn’t Bend Toward Justice On Its Own.

It’s been 50 years since the Kerner Commission report was released, and institutional racism still pervades our society.

Joel Bleifuss

Your Carbon Footprint Doesn’t Matter (Unless You’re Michael Bloomberg)

Consumption shaming is bad science—and bad politics.

Kate Aronoff