The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Rural America

Insect Apocalypse: Count Finds Critically Low Number of Monarch Butterflies for Second Straight Year

Liz Kimbrough

Feature

Bloomberg’s Choice to Speak at AIPAC Shows How Out of Touch He Is

The billionaire has defended Islamophobia and Israel's wars. He'll fit right in at the AIPAC conference.

Alex Kane

Viewpoint

It’s Not Just Bernie Anymore—Centrist Dems Are Skipping AIPAC in a “Watershed Moment”

Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have joined Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in abandoning the pro-Israel conference that critics call "a fringe, right-wing, radioactive rogue organization."

Julia Conley

Culture

What a Janitor Found at a Border Patrol Processing Facility

Tom Kiefer spent years collecting items confiscated and thrown away by border patrol

Féi Hernandez

Feature

Red-Baiting Won’t Stop Bernie Sanders. The Democratic Debate Shows Why.

Moderators and candidates tried to weaponize democratic socialism to attack the front-runner.

Mindy Isser

Feature

Why Democrats Need To End the Filibuster

If they actually want to get anything done, Democrats need to kill the filibuster—now.

In These Times Editors

Feature

The Media Doesn’t Know How to Process the Fact That Bernie Sanders Is Winning

Corporate media has moved from denial to anger.

Jim Naureckas

Labor

New England UAW Workers Join Parade of Local Unions Endorsing Bernie Sanders

Hamilton Nolan

Feature

Bernie Sanders Is the Only Leading Presidential Candidate Publicly Opposing the Patriot Act

Many Democrats are still acquiescing to a George W. Bush-era policy that has been in place for nearly 20 years.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

The Culinary Workers Run Vegas. The Politicians Are Just Visiting.

Hamilton Nolan

Dispatch

He Sued Chevron and Won. Now He’s Under House Arrest.

Chevron is using the U.S. courts to avoid paying out $9.5 billion for environmental damage—and to silence lead lawyer Steven Donziger.

Christine MacDonald

Feature

Superdelegates Were Designed To Stop a Candidate Like Bernie

Of course the establishment candidates approve of superdelegates—these unelected electors were created precisely to protect the party elite.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

The Fate of the Planet Rests on Dethroning the IMF and World Bank

A Global Green New Deal could herald a new era of international cooperation to curb the climate crisis.

Johanna Bozuwa and Thomas M. Hanna

Viewpoint

Bloomberg Unleashes Warren’s Rage—At Last

If Warren has a superpower, it is her anger—a righteous, coruscating fury that beautifully clarifies the moral stakes of a rigged economy.

Kathleen Geier

Rural America

America’s Grasslands Once Teemed with Animals. We Must Save What’s Left of Their Vanishing Habitat

Joel Berger and Jon Beckmann

Feature

Bernie’s Strategy To Win California—And Everywhere

Sanders is taking a risk no one has before: banking on new voters

Nuala Bishari

Viewpoint

Where the Ongoing Mass Protests Against Neoliberalism in Chile Came From

Chileans are still taking to the streets to protest an unjust economic order. It will take a political movement to change the system.

Anna Kowalczyk

Viewpoint

With Bloomberg Running, A Student Debt Strike Is Even More Urgent

Bloomberg's plan doesn't go far enough to address the student debt crisis

Ann Larson