The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Dear Mackenzie: There's One More Donation You Owe to the World

Unionize Amazon.

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Billionaires Want to Be the Gatekeepers of the Solar System

Space is the final (profitable) frontier—and it’s Elon Musk’s for the taking.

Eleanor Penny

Viewpoint

Socialism Informs the Best of Our Politics

The case for democratic socialism in the 21st century.

Michael Harrington

Viewpoint

The Best Moment of 2020: The Burning of the Third Precinct

Everything else was bad

Hamilton Nolan

Climate

For the Green New Deal to Work, It Has to Reject “Growth”

How pursuing unfettered GDP growth makes it impossible to achieve the objectives of the Green New Deal.

Riccardo Mastini, Giorgos Kallis and Jason Hickel

Labor

Workers Should Run the World: A Bus Operator's Perspective

A conversation with Erek Slater, a bus operator for the Chicago Transit Authority.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

From Student Debtor to Soldier

How the student loan debt crisis forces low-income students of color into the military.

Anna Attie

Feature

The Electoral College Needs to Go. Here’s How States Can Bypass It.

Hillary Clinton and Al Gore both won the popular vote, but lost the election. It’s time for the people to choose who becomes president.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

What Biden’s Housing Pick Says About How He’ll Approach the Crisis

By nominating Rep. Marcia Fudge, Biden is indicating he’ll treat HUD as an afterthought. That’s the opposite of what we need right now.

Maurice BP-Weeks, Jeremie Greer and Tara Raghuveer

Labor

Warehouse Workers Are on the Front Lines of the Covid Crisis. They're Worried They'll Be Passed Over for the Vaccine.

Low-wage warehouse workers, many of whom are temporary, are demanding access to the vaccine.

Kari Lydersen

Labor

New York City Drivers Cooperative Aims to Smash Uber’s Exploitative Model

The city's first worker-owned ridesharing app gets ready to take on the big boys.

Hamilton Nolan

Rural America

‘Buy It or Else’: How Monsanto and BASF Forced a Toxic Weed Killer on Farmers

Internal records show the companies knew crop damage from their weed killer would be extensive. They sold it anyway.

Johnathan Hettinger

Feature

Activists Demand Rich Countries Suspend Patent Laws and Share Vaccines Freely

As rich countries hoard vaccine stocks, activists are calling for a just global distribution.

Hadas Thier

Viewpoint

Americans Are Drowning in Debt. Let’s Forgive All of It.

In the age of Covid-19, it’s time to end our debt epidemic once and for all.

Scott Remer

Feature

Biden’s Defense Secretary Pick Shows the Revolving Door for Military Contractors Remains

Industry ties were simply taken for granted in Biden’s defense secretary sweepstakes.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

Biden's HHS Pick Will Be In a Position to Finally Take On the Healthcare Industry

Xavier Becerra has been a longtime supporter of Medicare for All and has shown willingness to confront pharmaceutical monopolies. There’s a lot he could do to make U.S. healthcare more progressive.

Natalie Shure

LaborDispatch

With Gigs Canceled and No Relief, Musicians Form a Nationwide Union

This is what solidarity sounds like.

Liz Pelly

Rural America

Recognition of Native Treaty Rights Could Reshape the Environmental Landscape

The U.S. has largely ignored the nearly 400 treaties signed with tribal nations, but that may be starting to change. And some think that could prevent, or even reverse, environmental degradation.

Alex Brown