The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

ViewpointElection 2024

Kamala Harris Should Run on Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers

As the DNC convenes in Chicago, Democrats should follow the city’s lead by embracing a pro-worker policy that ends a legacy of discrimination and exploitation.

Nataki Rhodes and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa

And the Band Played On

Pia Guerra

ViewpointElection 2024Rural America

Republicans Will Weaponize Rural Suffering as Long as Democrats Ignore It

JD Vance is a poser, but he’s telling a dangerously compelling story about rural America that Democrats are doing nothing to defuse.

Joseph Bullington

Election 2024Comics

Get Your DNC Bingo Card Here!

Fox News freaks out? Tim Walz tells a dad joke? Random delegate becomes a viral sensation? The Chicago Tribune throws a tantrum?

Brian McFadden

LaborElection 2024

What Sex Workers Want From Kamala Harris

In an open letter, sex workers laid out how a Harris administration could rein in danger and criminalization.

Kim Kelly

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

Democrats Shouldn't Isolate Abortion Access

Democratic leaders appear set on siloing abortion access from other critical issues—including the genocide in Gaza. That’s a mistake.

Anne Rumberger

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

"And Now They Want Our Votes"

Eman Abdelhadi's speech from the "Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws" demonstration on Aug. 18 in Chicago.

Eman Abdelhadi

10 Things To Do in Chicago That Aren't Taking Pictures at the Bean—and Don't Involve Giving Money to Large Corporations

If you're coming to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention or live here and want to know more about your city, forget The Bean and check out these important spots.

In These Times Editors

FeatureInterview

As All Eyes Are on Chicago This Week, Don't Forget What This City is About

A pivotal teachers’ strike, decades of movement building, and a surprising mayoral victory: Chicago organizers built a mass movement that has transformed the city. A roundtable with Alex Han, Katelyn Johnson, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Jesse Sharkey, Tania Unzueta and J. Patrick Patterson.

J. Patrick Patterson

FeaturePalestineElection 2024

How to Listen to Michigan at the DNC in Chicago

From Dearborn to Benton Harbor, working people in the Great Lakes State are building progressive power. One of the efforts that emerged transformed into the Uncommitted national movement.

Eman Abdelhadi

ViewpointElection 2024

4 Talking Points Used to Smear DNC Protesters—And Why They’re Bogus

As the Democratic National Convention descends on Chicago, protesters are taking to the streets demanding an end to U.S. support for the genocide in Gaza. Don’t buy the arguments of those criticizing them.

Adam Johnson

ViewpointElection 2024

Democracy Despises a Coronation

Let the DNC be a battle. It's healthy. We'll kick Trump's ass on the other side.

Hamilton Nolan

ViewpointClimate

Scenes From a Sacrifice Zone: South Baltimore Residents Fight Back Against Industrial Pollution

“I want everybody in this community to be able to breathe clean air, and it's time to say enough's enough.”

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

The Farmers Who Can’t Afford Farms

Thirty-eight percent of young farmers—including 62% of young Black farmers—have student debt, which can make it impossible to take on farm loans.

Joseph Bullington

Housing

Inside the Right’s War on the Homeless

How one Trumpist tech mogul pushed a crackdown on the unhoused all the way to the Supreme Court.

Rebecca Burns

Dispatch

Borders and the Exchange of Humans for Debt

Borders and debt are new instruments of violence in a system that has had many names.

Heba Gowayed

ViewpointPalestine

The Grave Cost of Funding Israel's War Machine

To end U.S. support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, cold, hard calculations about war spending versus domestic programs could have greater resonance in an election year.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Viewpoint

UK Riots Have Their Roots in a History of Hate

The racism in the streets was seeded by the racism of the state.

Alberto Toscano