In These Times

The Head of the Postal Workers Union Says the Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months

Hamilton Nolan

Believe It Or Not, Unions Have Even Bigger Problems than the 2024 Election

It’s Important I Remember That I’m Avoiding the Footage

Cortney Lamar Charleston

ViewpointPalestine

Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Challenging the Cognitive Dissonance of Pro-Israel Liberalism

The Future Belongs to the Movement Sparked by Bernie Sanders

By advancing a bold left agenda and putting capitalism on trial, Sanders ignited a movement that will redefine American politics.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

LaborPalestineInvestigation

U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs of Anti-Zionists

FeatureInvestigation

The Treacherous Paths Out of Modi's India

Makepeace Sitlhou

Labor

Exclusive Transcripts Show Disgraced UAW President Strongarmed Board To Pick His Own Successor

Chris Brooks

Three women hold candles; behind them, another weeps. They are in blue Farmworker Association t-shirts and traditional dress.

The Race Against the Clock to a Workplace Heat Rule

Isabel Ashford Arya

Mist rises over a barren landscape with a single green patch

The Search for Green Common Ground

The Long Road to Union Recognition: Trader Joe’s Workers Press On

Maximillian Alvarez

A shirtless man flexes on a chair, flanked by two shirtless men in black Covid masks

Unions Are Hot—Just Ask the Chippendales

Winning Worker Rights Requires Fixing U.S. Democracy

Illinois Prisoners Say They Don’t Have Access to Hand Sanitizer, Cleaning Supplies or Soap

Editor's Picks

Investigations

Los escuadrones de muerte persiguiendo a los defensores del medio ambiente

Alessandra Bergamin

The Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders

Alessandra Bergamin

The Corporate Power Brokers Behind AIPAC’s War on the Squad

Branko Marcetic

Working In These Times

After Historic Chattanooga Win, the UAW Is Bargaining for Better Conditions at Volkswagen

Why U.S. Labor Has a "Special Responsibility" to Stop Israel's Attacks on Lebanon

The Weird and Stupid Teamsters Non-Endorsement Fiasco

Views

Dear Reader Joel Bleifuss

The Democratic Party Has Failed—We Need a Radical Vision to Defeat Trumpism Zack Exley

A Century Later, New York Activists Honor the Descendants of Those Displaced by Ashokan Reservoir Violet Snow

Tear Gas and Pepper Spray Can Be Deadly, But the U.S. Won’t Regulate Police Use Terry J. Allen

In Praise of The Whole World Is Watching Susan J. Douglas

Culture

Mutual Aid and Mosh Pits

Punks are stepping up for their communities—one show at a time.

Briana L. Ureña-Ravelo

Big Back Panic: Fatphobia's Rebrand

Anti-fatness is back with a vengeance so aggressive it puts 1990s “heroin chic” to shame.

A Fascist Specter Is Haunting America

Electoral appeals to the American worker are fueling racism against immigrants.

Alberto Toscano

Louisiana’s CRT Ban Continues the Long History Suppressing Black Education

Throughout history, those in power have labeled antiracist pedagogy and the education of Black people as dangerous and inflammatory.

Eric Adams Allegedly Took Bribes to Erase the Genocide That Killed My Ancestors

The mayor’s silence on the Armenian genocide mirrors his refusal to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.

August/September 2024