The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature
Time to Redirect the Military Budget to Public Health
America's addiction to war, by the numbers.
Indigo Olivier

Feature
Hospital Food Workers and Janitors Are Stuck In a “Death Trap”
Overlooked workers are risking their lives to keep the healthcare system running. Now, they're fighting back.
Kari Lydersen

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

Feature
The Wisconsin GOP Is a Death Cult
Wisconsin Republicans show they hate democracy and Wisconsinites.
Emma Roller

Labor
Striking McDonald’s Workers Say Their Lives Are More Essential Than Fast Food
Hamilton Nolan

Rural America
The EPA Sidestepped the Normal Public-Comment Process to Approve a Cancer-Linked Herbicide
Johnathan Hettinger

Feature
As the World Economy Grinds to a Halt, the U.S. War Machine Churns On
Weapons manufacturers get a life raft while the rest of us drown.
Sarah Lazare

Labor
The Plan Is to Save Capital and Let the People Die
Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch
Under Trump, Undocumented Immigrants With COVID-19 Are Being Denied Care
For immigrants, the coronavirus crisis is becoming a nightmare.
Sabrina Gunter

Feature
This Crisis Can Be a Gateway to Climate Action. These Activists Are Showing How.
Climate justice organizers have moved from the streets to the Internet, where they are trying to scale up the fight.
Christine MacDonald

Feature
Why Instacart Workers Went On Strike
A conversation with gig worker and labor organizer, Vanessa Bain.
Maximillian Alvarez

Feature
Let’s Stop the Bailout Fraud Before It Starts
Bill Moyers interviews Neil Barofsky, who as Special Inspector General uncovered rampant corruption in the $700 billion 2008 Wall Street bailout.
Bill Moyers

InvestigationGoodman Institute
Is Building Missiles ‘Essential’? The U.S. Government Thinks So.
Some workers in the defense industry question why they're required to stay on the job, and many are worried about safety.
Taylor Barnes

Labor
Mnuchin Is Now Trying to Destroy Airline Workers’ Job Protections
Sara Nelson

Feature
If You Can’t Support Medicare For All by Now, Become a Republican
Is anyone brave enough to change their positions to fit reality?
Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch
How Disabled Activists Are Fighting Isolation, Collectively
In the Bay Area, mutual aid projects are helping build community in a time of social distancing.
Brooke Anderson

Labor
Here’s What a General Strike Would Take
Hamilton Nolan

Labor
Workers Are Essential, CEOs Are Not
Mindy Isser
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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