The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Culture

Republicans Never Wanted a Fair Fight

Lessons from the tumultuous election in 2000 are still relevant 20 years later.

In These Times Editors

Labor

Millions of U.S Workers for Walmart, McDonald’s and Other Corporate Giants Rely on Food Stamps and Medicaid

A new report commissioned by Bernie Sanders shows that corporations are soaking up profits—while paying workers so little they depend on government assistance to survive.

Jeff Schuhrke

Feature

Dean Spade on How Mutual Aid Will Help Us Survive Disaster

We have to fundamentally reimagine community if we want to avoid “intensive, uneven suffering followed by species extinction.”

Clara Liang

Feature

What You Need to Know About BDS

The global, nonviolent movement for Palestinian freedom.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

Democrats Are Scared to Use Their Best Leverage

They need to start holding hostage the things that Republicans hold dear

Hamilton Nolan

The Women Activists Rejecting Biden’s Pro-War “Feminism”

Why anti-war feminists don't want hawkish women like Michèle Flournoy in positions of power.

Sarah Lazare

Feature

Joe Biden Owes His Victory to the Left, No Matter What the Democratic Party Says

Organizers, not consultants, delivered key states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia. Democrats ignore this reality at their peril.

Rebecca Chowdhury

Viewpoint

The Message from this Election? Bring the “Ruckus on the Democratic Party.”

Don't believe the establishment: The 2020 election results are a vindication of the Left’s inside-outside strategy.

Joel Bleifuss

Viewpoint

In a Functioning Democracy, Pelosi and Schumer Would Have Already Been Tossed from Democratic Leadership

Democratic Party leaders have clung to a failed centrist political strategy. It’s time to move on—by elevating progressives.

Elias Alsbergas

Feature

Biden Must End the War He Helped Start

Yemenis call on the president-elect to stop the onslaught.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Feature

My Grueling Search for Asylum From an Undeclared War

A member of the Honduran resistance movement tells his story.

José López

Dispatch

The MAGA Army Tries to Drag America to Hell

Dear Leader Trump's toy soldiers make one last stand on the streets of Washington, DC

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Biden’s First Priority: Undo the Damage Done by Trump

President Biden can make progressive appointments and executive actions—no matter who controls the Senate.

Rick Perlstein

Viewpoint

Instead of Repeating the Obama Administration, Biden Must Do Better. Here's How.

A successful Biden presidency will require immediately making working people's lives better—and this is where to start.

Branko Marcetic

Labor

The $15 Minimum Wage Won in Florida, But Biden Didn't. Here's Why.

Activists say the key was actually talking about working-class issues.

McKenna Schueler

Viewpoint

This Small City Is Proving That Left-Wing Ideas Can Triumph at the Ballot Box

Socialists just helped pass a slate of progressive ballot measures in Portland, Maine—signaling that voters are hungry for bold policies that favor the working class.

Meaghan LaSala

LaborRural America

Meatpacking Workers Say Attendance Policies Force Them to Work With Covid-19 Symptoms

As the pandemic rages, punitive attendance policies at corporate meat plants coerce sick workers into showing up, according to activists, experts and the workers themselves.

Heather Schlitz

Feature

With Biden in Power, Beware the Neoliberal Backlash

Grassroots organizers and Black voters led Biden to victory. Our concerns and demands must be taken seriously.

Barbara Ransby