Politics

Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns Like Sheikh Jarrah Are Nothing New for Israel

An In These Times feature from 1977 examining the proliferation of illegal settlements across the occupied territories has proved distressingly prescient.

Maryum Elnasseh

The Real "Big Lie" Is That Billionaires Are Tolerable

Great wealth should be seen as deranged hoarding.

Hamilton Nolan

U.S. Labor Shortage? No, We Have a Crisis of Low Wages.

Don't easily believe claims that there's a lack of people to fill jobs. What's really going on is that employers aren't offering workers a living wage.

Heidi Shierholz

Biden’s Infrastructure Plans Are a Good Start—But We Must Ensure Democratic Control

President Biden has laid out an ambitious agenda for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure. To succeed, the projects should be put under public ownership.

Thomas M. Hanna

Biden's First 100 Days Have Been a Tale of Two Presidencies

When it comes to economic issues, the Biden administration has shown some surprising progressivism. On foreign policy, not so much.

Max B. Sawicky

The Numbers Show We Need Action to Stop Anti-Asian Violence

The Senate passed a bill to combat hate crimes in response to the rise in anti-Asian violence. It's a first step—but there's much more work to be done.

Clara Liang

Just 3 Democrats Stand in the Way of the PRO Act Coming to the Senate Floor for a Vote

Facing pressure, Sens. Joe Manchin and Angus King have signed on to the landmark labor bill, leaving just three Democratic holdouts: Kyrsten Sinema, Mark Kelly and Mark Warner.

Jeff Schuhrke

This Republican "Working Class Party" Thing Is a Clown Show of the Highest Order

Try harder, Ivy League scum.

Hamilton Nolan

Politics Are Momentarily Weird Enough to Take On Global Capitalism

A global minimum corporate tax could have some crossover appeal.

Hamilton Nolan

What's Really Behind the Opposition to a $15 Minimum Wage

Fifty-seven senators from both parties are determined to preserve an economic system that rewards the rich and punishes the poor.

Joel Bleifuss

Why the Left Sees an Opening for a ‘Realignment’ in U.S. Politics

Left-wing groups such as the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats are reviving the old idea of realignment, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Democrats Take the First Steps to Make Biden’s Infrastructure Bill a Climate Bill

The newly unveiled BUILD GREEN Infrastructure and Jobs Act would create good-paying union jobs while reducing carbon emissions and upgrading the country's crumbling infrastructure.

Kenny Stancil

Dianne Morales Is the Radical Choice for New York City Mayor

The political newcomer wants the city to stop "feeding the beast" of inequality.

Hamilton Nolan

The Movement for Black Lives Has Been Waiting for This Moment

Racial justice organizers are preparing to take to the streets and the halls of power to push President Biden to meet their demands.

Eli Day

Biden Could Help Prevent Water Crises Like the One in Jackson—If He Stands Up to Corporations

The ongoing crisis in Jackson, Mississippi shows why President Biden must reject privatization.

Thomas M. Hanna

The Filibuster Is a Labor Issue

The PRO Act will not pass unless we end the filibuster. Those two things are a package deal.

Hamilton Nolan

How Austerity Politics End

By passing the American Rescue Plan, President Biden and Democrats in Congress are signaling they may finally be ready to move on from the age of market fundamentalism.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

Democrats Can't Afford to Dilute Their $15 Minimum Wage Proposal

The wage increase in the Covid relief bill also applies to tipped workers and others making a subminimum wage. Democrats should fight tooth and nail to make it law.

s.e. smith